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I was born into it and there was nothing I could do about it. It was there like air or food or any...

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The only question with wealth is what you do with it.

It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are

We now in the United States have more security guards for the rich than we have police services for ...

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Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.

Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, ...

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Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, ...

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All wealth is the product of labor.

All wealth is the product of labor

The businessman is only tolerable so long as his gains can be held to bear some relation to what, ro...

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How long will it be necessary to pay City men so entirely out of proportion to what other servants o...

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By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an importa...

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When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes ...

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John Maynard KeynesEconomic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren

Does not the Old Testament promise that God will prosper His people? Indeed! God increases our yield...

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John Piper (artist)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

Does not the Old Testament promise that God will prosper His people? Indeed! God increases our yield...

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John Piper (artist)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

Does not the Old Testament promise that God will prosper His people? Indeed! God increases our yield...

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John Piper (theologian)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

Does not the Old Testament promise that God will prosper His people? Indeed! God increases our yield...

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John Piper (theologian)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

Rich people show their appreciation through favors. When everyone you know has more money than they ...

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I remember clearly the deaths of three men. One was the richest man of the century, who, having claw...

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No longer enslaved or made dependent by force of law, the great majority are so by force of poverty;...

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[W]hat I like best is staying home and reading. Being rich is not about how many homes you own. It’s...

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Being rich is not about how much money you have or how many homes you own it's the freedom to buy an...

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When a man becomes a Christian, he becomes industrious, trustworthy and prosperous. Now, if that man...

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Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful t...

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Wealth brings with it refinement, the spirit of conservation, while poverty inspires adventurous ide...

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Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various process...

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In a higher phase of communist society, after the enslaving subordination of the individual to the d...

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Karl MarxCritique of the Gotha Program

That same night, I wrote my first short story. It took me thirty minutes. It was a dark little tale ...

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In China the egalitarian movement came not just from Zhu's vision, but also the Taoist ideas of bala...

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It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness poverty and wealth have both failed.

Bill Gates wants people to think he's Edison, when he's really Rockefeller. Referring to Gates as th...

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We need to take command of the solar system to gain that wealth, and to escape the sea of paper our ...

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Poverty is a great cutter-off and riches a great shutter-off.

Wealth and power and life, all that men build up and guard with such effort, is only worth anything ...

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The worker picked up Pakhom’s spade, dug a grave, and buried him - six feet from head to heel, exact...

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Leo TolstoyHow Much Land Does a Man Need? and Other Stories

It is usually imagined that a thief, a murderer, a spy, a prostitute, acknowledging his profession a...

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But these were essentially the accoutrements that appeal to all people who are not actually rich but...

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Pierre had for the first time experienced that strange and fascinating feeling in the Slobodsky pala...

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That which can be lost cannot be deemed riches. Virtue is our true wealth and the true reward of its...

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MAMA: You must not dislike people ’cause they well off, honey.BENEATHA: Why not? It makes just as mu...

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The Murchisons are honest-to-God-real-foe-rich colored people, and the only people in the world who ...

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I know he's rich. He knows he's rich, too.

Then it was that Jo, living in the darkened room, with that suffering little sister always before he...

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It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.

Most of us have no sympathy with the rich idler who spends his life in pleasure without ever doing a...

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I had risked everything and gained everything, and here I was of the world and in it.

They couldn't hurt Gansey. Nothing could hurt him; people who said money couldn't buy everything had...

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Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

that profit which good things bestowed on us by teaching to seek pleasure elsewhere than in the barr...

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For her [Françoise], wealth was like a necessary condition without which virtue would lack both meri...

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He is so rich, he has no room to shit.

Miranda nods, because she knows that to be true: noble people don't do things for the money, they si...

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As Charles Darwin said,'The economy shown by Nature in her resources is striking,'' says the Spirit....

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Margaret AtwoodPayback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.

Love makes us wake up in the morning with a sense of purpose and a flow of creative ideas. Love floo...

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Marianne WilliamsonThe Law of Divine Compensation: On Work

The alienation, the downright visceral frustration, of the new American ideologues, the bone in thei...

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I wish to become rich so that I can instruct the people and glorify honest poverty a little like t...

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The Indian may seem poor to we rich Westerners but in matters of the spirit it is we who are the pau...

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I am opposed to millionaires but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.

Our Lord commonly giveth Riches to such gross asses to whom he affordeth nothing else that is good.

Although it is very easy to marry a wife, it is very difficult to support her along with the childre...

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Martin LutherThe Sermons of Martin Luther: 7 Volumes

All this is simply to say that all life is interrelated. We are caught in an inescapable network of ...

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Mormons... are so strong, they can handle wealth, they are confident. I think it is because they are...

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...Material goods have gained an increasing and finally inexorable power over the lives of men as at...

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I am too rich already, for my eyes mint

From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort and pleasure

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Michel FoucaultThe Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences

I believe that science is the engine of prosperity, that if you look around at the wealth of civiliz...

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He who loses wealth loses much he who loses a friend loses more but he that loses his courage loses ...

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Margarita was never short of money. She could buy whatever she liked. Her husband had plenty of inte...

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The eighties happened. The nineties happened. Death and sickness and getting fat and going bald happ...

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Mitch AlbomTuesdays with Morrie

Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to h...

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The greatest victory in life is to rise above the material things that we once valued most.

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Muhammad AliThe Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey

When it comes to love, compassion, and other feelings of the heart, I am rich.

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Muhammad AliThe Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mi...

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Success in life depends upon happiness, and happiness is found in no other way than through SERVICE ...

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Both poverty and riches are the offspring of thought.

You may as well know, right here, that you can never have riches in great quantities, unless you can...

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There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge. Both poverty and riches are the of...

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Riches begin in the form of thought! The amount is limited only by the person in whose mind the thou...

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Fortune definitely frowns upon all ill-gotten wealth, and often causes it to mysteriously evaporate.

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Napoleon HillYou Can Work Your Own Miracles

I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to lo...

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If wealth is a magnet, poverty is a kind of repellent.

It was in 1931 that the historian James Truslow Adams coined the phrase “the American dream.”The Ame...

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Great wealth, like a crowd at a concert,Gathers and melts.

Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political powe...

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Responsibility I believe accrues through privilege. People like you and me have an unbelievable amou...

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The two main criminals are France and the United States. They owe Haiti enormous reparations because...

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Noam ChomskyImperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World

I tell you, say the rich,the poor are naughtbut dirty windwelling in air-shaftsover the cindersand d...

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I know that inner wisdom is more precious than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.

Wealth is good when it brings joy to others.

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Og MandinoThe Greatest Salesman in the World

Wealth, my son, should never be your goal in life. Your words are eloquent but they are mere words. ...

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Og MandinoThe Greatest Salesman in the World

Wealth should never be your goal in life. True wealth is of the heart, not of the purse.

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Og MandinoThe Greatest Salesman in the World

No, my son, do not aspire for wealth and labor not only to be rich. Strive instead for happiness, to...

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Og MandinoThe Greatest Salesman in the World

I'll fares the land to hastening ills of prey Where wealth accumulates and men decay.

I'll fares the land to hastening ills a prey Where wealth accumulates and men decay Princes and ...

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…The more enormous our wealth, the more extensive our fears, all our possessions are paled up with n...

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Oliver GoldsmithThe Vicar of Wakefield

I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, but it hasn't changed who I am. My feet are still on the ...

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Everyone wants to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with...

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