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Quotes About Exploit

Fools make researches and wise men exploit them.
~ H. G. Wells
He that would be a great man must learn to turn every accident to some advantage.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Commonsense has trampled down many a gentle genius whose eyes had delighted in a too early moonbeam of some too early truth; commonsense has back-kicked dirt at the loveliest of queer paintings because a blue tree seemed madness to its well-meaning hoof; commonsense has prompted ugly but strong nations to crush their fair but frail neighbors the moment a gap in history offered a chance that it would have been ridiculous not to exploit.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Portugal was the first European nation to exploit the sea for spices and the global empire that went along with them.
~ Laurence Bergreen
Fools make researches and wise men exploit them.
~ H. G. Wells
The only way to know if the screening is saving lives is by doing a randomized trial. It's easy to forget this and assume that if technology can find more cancer, it will save more lives. Marketers exploit this assumption. Don't fall for it.
~ H. Gilbert Welch
Shame is an unhappy emotion invented by pietists in order to exploit the human race.
~ Blake Edwards
U.S. adversaries exploit power gaps. It's easier for Russia to invade Ukraine with irregular forces out of uniform, the so-called 'little green men,' than to send a conventional army that would challenge NATO.
~ David Ignatius
I believe that it is my responsibility as the prime minister of Israel to do whatever can be done to exploit the unique opportunities that lie ahead of us to move towards peace. Not everything can be done by one act.
~ Yitzhak Rabin
So I'm looking to the saxophone as a resource which has its own unique set of possibilities. I'm looking to exploit them and develop them and have the fullest range of possibilities of the saxophone be known.
~ Evan Parker
Any complex system is sport for a hacker;
~ Cory Doctorow
had the rights to make all the sequels and exploit the characters. "I made a presentation that said, here's the 15% of Pixar that Disney does not already own.
~ Walter Isaacson
For the sake of "job creation," in Kentucky, and in other backward states, we have lavished public money on corporations that come in and stay only so long as they can exploit people here more cheaply than elsewhere. The general purpose of the present economy is to exploit, not to foster or conserve. (from 'Compromise, Hell!' published in the November/December 2004 issue of ORION magazine)
~ Wendell Berry
education combined with the restoration of civility in public discourse can reduce the vitriol that widens the fissures in society that Russia and others exploit.
~ H.R. McMaster
What you did when you wanted to get away with something was not to plan, but to look for an opportunity
~ Jane Smiley
As China is about adaptation, not transformation, it is unlikely to change the world dramatically should it ever assume the global driver's seat. But this does not mean that China won't exploit that world for its own purposes.
~ Ivan Krastev
The stock market is an exploitable market where being right means you get rich and you help the overall system error-correct which makes it harder to be right (the mechanism pushes prices close to random, they're not quite random but few can exploit the non-randomness).
~ Dominic Cummings
I wanted to hold onto and exploit the power of narrative. This is not only a book about a great storyteller, but there have to be stories about the storyteller.
~ Stephen Greenblatt
In 1942, propaganda against Slavs would ease, as more of them came to work in the Reich. Hitler's decision to kill Jews (rather than exploit their labor) was presumably facilitated by his simultaneous decision to exploit the labor of Slavs (rather than kill them).
~ Timothy Snyder
The ethos of most films is that you make a film, you exploit the community, you exploit the environment, and it's OK because you made a great film, you know?
~ Naomie Harris
XXII. The key to peaceableness is continuous practice. It is wrong to suppose that we can exploit and impoverish the poorer countries, while arming them and instructing them in the newest means of war, and then reasonably expect them to be peaceable.
~ Wendell Berry
Greville swore all the time in private, arguing that we owed it to the English language to exploit the full range of forceful expressions it offered.
~ William Boyd
The wise man profits by the vanity of his fellow-creatures.
~ William John Locke
Jackendoff and Lerdahl point out that large structures in music can be like dramatic arcs in narratives. The slow buildup of tension, a climax, and then denouement can be found in both musical pieces and stories. It may be that both music and language exploit a human predisposition to understand events in terms of tension and resolution.
~ Christine Kenneally