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To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine. – Ralph Waldo Emerson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It is no secret that organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one considers that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies. – Woody Allen	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practised, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. . . . God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself. – Pierre Charron	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish. – Aeschylus	added by anonymous 14 years ago
For Scripture is the school of the Holy Spirit, in which, as nothing is omitted that is both necessary and useful to know, so nothing is taught but what is expedient to know. Therefore we must guard against depriving believers of anything disclosed about predestination in Scripture, lest we seem either wickedly to defraud them of the blessing of their God or to accuse and scoff at the Holy Spirit for having published what it is in any way profitable to suppress. – John Calvin	added by anonymous 14 years ago
As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it. – Dick Cavett	added by anonymous 14 years ago
No man ought to lay a cross upon himself, or to adopt tribulation, as is done in popedom but if a cross or tribulation come upon him, then let him suffer it patiently, and know that it is good and profitable for him. – Martin Luther	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Sometimes what's right isn't as important as what's profitable. – Trey and Matt Stone Parker	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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