The invention of money opened a new field to human avarice by giving rise to usury and the practice of lending money at interest while the owner passes a life of idleness.
Pliny the Elder
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Governor Kasich and I won't agree on everything, but agree we've got to control the rise in health care costs on all levels.
John Hickenlooper
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The National Academy of Sciences would be unable to give a unanimous decision if asked whether the sun would rise tomorrow.
Paul R. Ehrlich
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A person's mere propinquity to others independently suspected of criminal activity does not give rise to probable cause to search that person.
Potter Stewart
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You have to be good. And keep getting better. For every writer taken on, another is dropped. A paradox: you have to rise to stay level.
Matt Haig
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Chemical and biological attacks are scary and will kill a lot of people but don't rise to the level of nuclear.
Nelson DeMille
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At last, someone came to tell me I'd been selected as commissioner, which gave rise to the line that I took the job with clean hands. I was then taken downstairs to a press conference, and the reporters were as surprised as I was.
Pete Rozelle
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I think there are a lot of Republicans who recognize that investment in adolescent girls and empowering them is good for our foreign policy. When they're educated, they tend to give back more to their communities, to rise out of poverty in a way that is good for their families and their communities and, ultimately, their countries.
Jeanne Shaheen
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We have seen that in this country in the last few years, particularly on Wall Street, with the rise of the old human frailty of greed. This occurs when people begin to serve only their own needs to the detriment of everyone else.
Lee R. Raymond
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You know when there's someone new on the rise and there's too much hype? I didn't want that to be me.
Shannyn Sossamon
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Before the Internet became so powerful, I toured extensively. With the rise of the Internet, touring apparently has become less important.
John Sandford
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Washington, as we know it, is essentially run by men and women who are not elected or even appointed to their posts, staff members unaccountable to traditional constituencies. They rise according to the needs and whims of their own special constituency of elites.
Jake Tapper
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Stopping illegal immigration would mean that wages would have to rise to a level where Americans would want the jobs currently taken by illegal aliens.
Thomas Sowell
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People have a lot of control over their ability to rise to the occasion and to show their best or their aspirational selves.
Amy Cuddy
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The thing women must do to rise to power is to redefine their femininity. Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.
Katharine Graham
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In addition to joblessness, of course, by the working of supply and demand, when you have a larger number of people unemployed, wages do not rise at the normal level, so that we had last year a drop in real wages.
Tim Bishop
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You work hard, and you'll rise. But, if you've got any foolish notions, just knock them on the head and forget them.
Stephen Vincent Benet
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With political will and strategic initiatives, we can prevent more and more of our global neighbors from falling into the abyss of poverty and instead give future generations the opportunities they need to rise to their fullest potential.
Helene D. Gayle
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I think behavioral economists don't have any more of an explanation about the rise of Trump than anyone else.
Richard Thaler
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I think it may not be a coincidence that the rise of printing and book publication and literacy and the phenomenon of best sellers all preceded the humanitarian reforms of the Enlightenment.
Steven Pinker
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We had to adjust and threw a few more rise balls and curves but it worked.
Cat Osterman
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More stars in the north are seen not to set, while in the south certain stars are no longer seen to rise.
Nicolaus Copernicus
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American presidential elections usually amount to a series of overcorrections: Clinton begat Bush, who produced Obama, whose lax border policies fueled the rise of Trump.
Tucker Carlson
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Autism currently affects one in 88 children in the U.S., and its prevalence continues to rise. That's why it's important to help organizations like Autism Speaks raise awareness and funds to support families and individuals impacted by it.
Adrienne Bailon
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