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Prudent people are very happy; 'tis an exceeding fine thing, that's certain, but I was born without it, and shall retain to my day of Death the Humour of saying what I think.
Mary Wortley Montagu / Writer
Death
Born
Certain
Fine
Humour
People
Prudent
Thinking
Death Day People
Exceeding
Retain
Saying
Shall
Tis
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It's incredible considering the public perception that he was tight fisted and he was more than prudent, and lacked ambition to take Tottenham to where the fans wanted them to be.
Alan Hansen / Soccer Player
Ambition
Considering
Fans
Hands
Perception
Prudent
Tight
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The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers.
Johann Kaspar Lavater / Poet
Enterprise
Former
Hero
Latter
Mistake
Prudent
Conquers
Advantages
Bold
Difficulties
Sees
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It is a remarkable circumstance in reference to cunning persons that they are often deficient not only in comprehensive, far-sighted wisdom, but even in prudent, cautious circumspection.
Richard Whately / Economist
Circumstances
Prudent
Remarkable
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We'll therefore relish with content, Whate'er kind providence has sent, Nor aim beyond our pow'r; For, if our stock be very small, 'Tis prudent to enjoy it all, Nor lose the present hour.
Nathaniel Cotton / Poet
Contentment
Kind
Prudent
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Minor league umpires are evaluated in their respective leagues each year and rated numerically. This enables umpires to know where they stand and helps them make prudent career decisions.
Jim Evans / Baseball Umpire
Careers
League
Prudent
Umpires
Years
Decisions
Each Year
Enables
Helps
Minor
Minor League
Rated
Respective
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He that has most experience [is] so much more prudent than he that is new, as not to be equalled by any advantage of natural and extemporary wit- though many young men think the contrary.
Thomas Hobbes / Philosopher
Men
Prudent
Thinking
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We will always apply the same principles of collective security, prudent caution, and superior weaponry that enabled us to peacefully prevail in the long cold war against the Soviet Union.
Theodore C. Sorensen / Former White House Counsel
War
Caution
Cold
Cold War
Long
Principles
Prudent
Soviet
Soviet Union
Weaponry
Apply
Collective
Peacefully
Prevail
Union
Superior
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Yes, we can make prudent choices as parents, but we can't create an environment where there's zero risk for our children. Not only is that impossible, I don't think it's desirable, either.
Eula Biss / Fiction Writer
Zero
Desirable
Prudent
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The companies that choose to list on Nasdaq are among the most innovative, risk-taking businesses in the world, and they are proof to us all that prudent risk-taking drives our economy forward.
Adena Friedman /
Innovative
Proof
Prudent
Risk-taking
Drives
List
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We all have our problems and we are working to find a solution to ours and also to help the eurozone. We expect that other countries should do the same, that they be prudent in their statements.
Mariano Rajoy / Prime Minister Of Spain
Eurozone
Other Countries
Prudent
Statements
Ours
Solution
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The moment is ripe for an experienced businessman to talk practical, prudent economics to the electorate - which is why Mitt Romney's political fortunes are steadily being resurrected from the grave.
Camille Paglia / Teacher
Businessman
Economics
Electorate
Political
Prudent
Resurrection
Ripe
Romney
Experienced
Fortunes
Grave
Mitt
Practical
Steadily
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I try to be fussy about the parts I play. I think that's quite prudent, it means you're stretching different muscles, and you're scaring yourself by doing something which is out of your comfort zone.
Matthew Macfadyen / Actor
Comfort
Comfort Zone
Fussy
Mean
Muscles
Play
Prudent
Stretching
Thinking
Zone
Yourself Your Doing
Yourself Your Comfort
Scaring
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It is a maxim, founded on the universal experience of mankind, that no nation is to be trusted farther than it is bound by its interest; and no prudent statesman or politician will venture to depart from it.
George Washington / 1St U.s. President
Politics
Prudent
Venture
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To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.
John F. Kennedy / 35Th U.s. President
Trust
Accounting
Careful
Despair
Facts
Faithful
Giving
Inventory
Obligation
Past
Prudent
Heir
Frankly
Gives
Nor
Owes
Takes
Whom
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If slavery, limited as it yet is, now threatens to subvert the Constitution, how can we as wise and prudent statesmen, enlarge its boundaries and increase its influence, and thus increase already impending dangers?
William H. Seward / Former Governor Of New York
Wise
Boundaries
Constitution
Increase
Influence
Prudent
Slavery
Statesmen
Dangers
Impending
Limited
Subvert
Threatens
Thus
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If you are under obligations to many, it is prudent to postpone the recompensing of one, until it be in your power to remunerate all; otherwise you will make more enemies by what you give, than by what you withhold.
Charles Caleb Colton / Writer
Enemy
Giving
Prudent
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This Budget reflects a choice - not an easy choice, but the right choice. And when you think about it, the only choice. The choice to take the responsible, prudent path to fiscal stability, economic growth and opportunity.
George Pataki / Former Governor Of New York
Opportunity
Choices
Easy
Economic Growth
Growth
Path
Prudent
Stability
Thinking
Budget
Choice
Fiscal
Reflects
Right Choice
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The Free Exercise Clause protects the individual from any coercive measure that encourages him toward one faith or creed, discourages him from another, or makes it prudent or desirable for him to select one and embrace it.
William O. Douglas / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Atheism
Exercise
Prudent
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If we lived within our means - by being prudent - the 7 billion people in the world could have everything they needed. Global politics should be moving in that direction. But we think as people and countries, not as a species.
Jose Mujica / President Of Uruguay
Moving
Needed
Prudent
Species
Politics World People
Within
Billion
Countries
Direction
Global
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The Israelis should understand that it is in their long-term interest to have a democratic Egypt as a neighbor, and that it is prudent to acknowledge the legitimate interests of the Palestinians and to grant them their own state.
Mohamed Elbaradei / Diplomat
Acknowledge
Democratic
Egypt
Long Term
Neighbor
Prudent
Grant
Israelis
Palestinians
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The prudent course is to make an investment in learning, testing and understanding, determine how the new concepts compare to how you now operate and thoughtfully determine how they apply to what you want to achieve in the future.
Dee Hock /
Achieve
Compare
Concepts
Determine
Investment
Prudent
Testing
Understanding
Want
Apply
Operate
Thoughtfully
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Happy are those few nations that have not waited till the slow succession of human vicissitudes should, from the extremity of evil, produce a transition to good; but by prudent laws have facilitated the progress from one to the other!
Cesare Beccaria / Philosopher
Extremity
Nations
Prudent
Succession
Till
Slow
Waited
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You just have to keep at it and budget yourself; be prudent. It's art, so you really don't go into it to make a zillion dollars, but there's definitely bills to pay, and I want everyone in the band to have a salary and whatever they need.
Cindy Wilson /
Bills
Prudent
Salary
Budget
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I'm often troubled by a very strong instinct to share everything that's going on with me. I want to feel that connection, even with people I don't know. Then this other voice says, 'That's not prudent. People will use what you've said to hurt you.'
Rivers Cuomo / Musician
Hurt
Instinct
Prudent
Said
Share
Strong
Use
Voice
Me People Connection
Me Voice People
Connection
Often
Says
Troubled
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It is very pious to say and prudent to affirm that the holy Bible can never speak untruth -- whenever its true meaning is understood. But I believe nobody will deny that it is often very abstruse, and may say things which are quite different from wha.
Galileo Galilei / Physicist
Believe
Bible
Prudent
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Courage multiplies the chances of success by sometimes making opportunities, and always availing itself of them; and in this sense Fortune may be said to favor fools by those who, however prudent in their opinion, are deficient in valor and enterprise.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge / Poet
Courage
Opportunity
Smile
Fool
Prudent
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My thesis was a defense of our Constitution on the terms that the founding fathers wrote specifically in the Federalist Papers. They hoped that our form of government would draw forward men and women who are the wisest, most prudent, and most experienced.
Tom Cotton / United States Representative
Constitution
Defense
Federalist
Founding
Men And Women
Papers
Prudent
Thesis
Wisest
Men Women Government
Experienced
Fathers
Women Men Government
Founding Fathers
Hoped
Specifically
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I have serious concerns about whether it's prudent to give any foreign country substantial leverage over the U.S. economy. Instead of spending $80 billion on important programs here at home, we're sending this money overseas just to pay interest on our debt.
Tim Johnson / United States Senator
Home
Country
Debt
Giving
Prudent
Spending
Billion
Concerns
Foreign Country
Programs
Leverage
Overseas
Sending
Substantial
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Whatever I have up till now accepted as most true and assured I have gotten either from the senses or through the senses. But from time to time I have found that the senses deceive, and it is prudent never to trust completely those who have deceived us even once.
Rene Descartes / Philosopher
Deceived Us
Deceiving
Prudent
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The British economy of the future must be built not on the shifting sands of boom and bust, but on the bedrock of prudent and wise economic management for the long term. It is only these firm foundations that we can raise Britain's underlying economic performance.
Gordon Brown / Former Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom
Wise
Bedrock
Britain
Economic
Firm
Management
Prudent
Shifting
Term
Boom
Bust
Foundations
Performance
Raise
Sands
Underlying
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I don't approve of the notion that we should be announcing who should step down from the position of a head of a state unless we are seriously prepared to remove that person. But if we are not, if we are being prudent and careful, then let's also be careful with how we talk.
Zbigniew Brzezinski / Former National Security Advisor
Announcing
Be Careful
Careful
Notion
Position
Prepared
Prudent
Remove
Approve
Seriously
Step
Unless
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We will not play with inflation. We are living a delicate moment. President Obama spoke to me today about the high unemployment affecting the United States. In this crisis period, when the developed nations are not recovering, it's prudent to maintain the established inflation target.
Dilma Rousseff / President Of Brazil
Crisis
Delicate
Inflation
Nations
President Obama
Prudent
Recovering
Target
Unemployment
Affecting
Established
Developed
High Unemployment
Maintain
Spoke
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Unless you believe that politicians and agencies are above a money grab, especially if it can be justified under the auspices of a public health emergency, then you should favor prudent, careful allocation of resources with accountability on the front end and follow-up after the fact.
Sharyl Attkisson /
Accountability
Allocation
Follow Up
Justified
Prudent
Public Health
Health Money Believe
Agencies
Emergency
Favor
Grab
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One of the most perplexing political questions of the late 20th century is how new democracies should punish deposed dictators and their associates. Victims cry for justice, but leaders of new regimes must decide to what extent it is possible, moral or prudent to pursue evildoers of the past.
Stephen Kinzer / Author
Associates
Century
Cry
Democracy
Late
Moral
Prudent
Pursue
Regimes
Dictators
Extent
Perplexing
Punish
Victims
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A prince must be prudent enough to know how to escape the bad reputation of those vices that would lose the state for him, and must protect himself from those that will not lose it for him, if this is possible; but if he cannot, he need not concern himself unduly if he ignores these less serious vices.
Niccolo Machiavelli / Historian
Needs
Prudent
Vices
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I have great respect for people who live out their beliefs. For example, Ed Begley Jr. is an environmentalist, but he really lives his lives, and is he very prudent in the way he lives. He's cautious. He's not like an Al Gore that flies around in a private jet and burns 20,000 gallons a day on his jet.
Mike Huckabee / Former Governor Of Arkansas
Cautious
Environmentalist
Gore
Great Respect
Jet
Prudent
Al
Al Gore
Beliefs
Burns
Flies
For Example
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For Texas, a wise and prudent administration in the commencement of her national existence will be universally expected, imposing upon me the difficult and delicate task of setting in complete and successful operation a political body based upon principles so hazardously asserted and so gloriously maintained.
Sam Houston / Former United States Senator
Wise
Administration
Commencement
Delicate
Existence
Expected
Imposing
Principles
Prudent
Setting
Texas
Asserted
Based
Complete
Maintained
National
Operation
Task
Universally
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There is much that public policy can do to support American entrepreneurs. Health insurance reform will make it easier for entrepreneurs to take a chance on a new business without putting their family's health at risk. Tort reform will make it easier to take prudent risks on new products in a number of sectors.
Eric Ries / Entrepreneur
Entrepreneur
New Business
Numbers
Products
Prudent
Public Policy
Reform
Support
Take A Chance
Entrepreneurs
Health Insurance
Insurance
Sectors
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Throughout the universe of public and private funds, managers are measured quarterly against one index or another, defined by statistics, and corralled into this category or that category so that fund of funds, pensions, and other institutions can make comforting - if not necessarily prudent - asset allocation decisions.
Michael Burry /
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Defined
Fund
Managers
Prudent
Statistics
Universe
Decisions
Category
Asset
Measured
Necessarily
Pensions
Private
Throughout
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There is a big divergence between views on a variety of policy issues from fiscal stimulus to financial regulation. It's my hope and my ambition for the economics profession that as we advance our knowledge, that those discussions will narrow in their focus, and that it will help to have more prudent policy-making down the road.
Lars Peter Hansen /
Ambition
Divergence
Down The Road
Profession
Prudent
Regulation
Stimulus
Variety
Views
Advance
Discussions
Fiscal
Narrow
Policy Issues
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And I think it's a prudent, responsible way, given the scale of the emergency, the scale of the damage still facing America, that we finance these additional support for the unemployed as well as the support for small business. We think there's a good case for doing it now. We want to do it in an overall fiscally responsible way.
Timothy Geithner / Former United States Secretary Of The Treasury
Business
Finance
America
Damage
Prudent
Small Business
Thinking
Unemployed
Good Business Doing
Additional
Scale
Emergency
Facing
Fiscally
Overall
Responsible Way
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Remember the Tea Party movement didn't get started in September of 2008 when the bank bailout was passed. It really began on Feb. 19th, 2009 when a television commentator named Rick Santelli stood up and said what the hell are we doing bailing out people who couldn't afford a mortgage by taking money from people like me who are prudent?
Karl Rove / Former White House Deputy Chief Of Staff
Hell
Mortgage
Movement
Party
Prudent
September
Tea
Tea Party
Tea Party Movement
Television
Afford
Bailing
Bailout
Bank
Began
Named
Commentator
Rick
Stood
Taking
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