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• Private sector development and the creation of small businesses spur investment, jobs, opportunity, and hope. It empowers the market to meet local needs, whether for food, basic goods, or services.

  Robert Zoellick

  Jobs, Opportunity, Empowering

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• Now the myths represent the Gods themselves and the goodness of the Gods subject always to the distinction of the speakable and the unspeakable, the revealed and the unrevealed, that which is clear and that which is hidden: since, just as the Gods have made the goods of sense common to all, but those of intellect only to the wise, so the myths state the existence of Gods to all, but who and what they are only to those who can understand.

  Sallust

  Wise, Common, Goodness

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• Destitution and excessive luxury develop apparently the same ideals, the same marauding attitude towards mankind, the intensity of struggle for material goods, -- surely showing how perfect is the meeting of extremes.

  Alice James

  Attitude, Struggle, Luxury

  Alice James (1934). “Her Brothers Her Journal”

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• ... in a capitalist society a man is expected to be an aggressive, uncompromising, factual, lusty, intelligent provider of goods,and the woman, a retiring, gracious, emotional, intuitive, attractive consumer of goods.

  Toni Cade Bambara

  Intelligent, Men, Emotional

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• People buy their necessities in shops and have to pay dearly for them because they have to assist in paying for what is also on sale there but only rarely finds purchasers: the luxury and amusement goods. So it is that luxury continually imposes a tax on the simple people who have to do without it.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Simple, Shopping, Luxury

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.370, Cambridge University Press

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• But then in what way are things called good? They do not seem to be like the things that only chance to have the same name. Are goods one then by being derived from one good or by all contributing to one good, or are they rather one by analogy? Certainly as sight is in the body, so is reason in the soul, and so on in other cases.

  Aristotle

  Sight, Names, Soul

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1733, Princeton University Press

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• The goods of Fortune, even such as they really are, still need taste to enjoy them. It is the enjoying no the possessing, that makes us happy.

  Michelangelo

  Character, Needs, Taste

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• Large department stores, with their luxuriant abundance of canned goods, foods, and clothing, are like the primary landscape and the geometrical locus of affluence. Streets with overcrowded and glittering store windowsthe displays of delicacies, and all the scenes of alimentary and vestimentary festivity, stimulate a magical salivation. Accumulation is more than the sum of its products: the conspicuousness of surplus, the final and magical negation of scarcitymimic a new-found nature of prodigious fecundity.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Delicacy, Landscape, Affluence

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• Undoubtedly equality of goods is just; but, being unable to cause might to obey justice, men has made it just to obey might. Unable to strengthen justice, they have justified might--so that the just and the strong should unite, and there should be peace, which is the sovereign good.

  Blaise Pascal

  Strong, Power, Men

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• Do not put all your goods in hollow ships.

  Hesiod

  Ships, Caution, Hollow

  Hesiod, Hugh G. Evelyn-White (2006). “Works and Days, Theogony and the Shield of Heracles”, p.21, Courier Corporation

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• The goods of the earth are meant for everyone.

  Pope Francis

  Earth

  "Naomi Klein on Visiting the Vatican & the Radical Economic Message Behind Papal Climate Encyclical". www.democracynow.org. August 04, 2015.

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• A healthier, less impoverished planet is good for all of us. From an economic standpoint, it allows people to contribute more to the marketplace and lead productive lives. U.S. foreign assistance opens new markets to U.S. goods and services and creates new trading partners and allies.

  Mike Huckabee

  Productive Life, People, Allies

  "Why foreign aid still makes sense" by Mike Huckabee and Blanche Lincoln, www.politico.com. October 22, 2012.

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• Those who wander in the world avowedly and purposely in pursuit of happiness, who view every scene of present joy with an eye to what may succeed, certainly are more liable to disappointment, misfortune and unhappiness, than those who give up their fate to chance and take the goods and evils of fortune as they come, without making happiness their study, or misery their foresight.

  Fanny Burney

  Happiness, Disappointment, Giving Up

  Frances Burney, Fanny Burney (2015). “Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)”, p.3747, Delphi Classics

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• [F]or women, like tradesmen, draw in the injudicious to buy their goods by the high value they themselves set upon them.... They endeavor strongly to fix in the minds of their enamoratos their own high value, and then contrive as much as possible to make them believe that they have so many purchasers at hand that the goods--if they do not make haste--will all be gone.

  Sarah Fielding

  Marriage, Believe, Men

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• ...Poverty in America today leads not only to anxiety, unhappiness, discomfort and a lack of material goods. It leads to death. Poverty in America today is a death sentence for tens and tens of thousands of our people.

  Bernie Sanders

  America, People, Anxiety

  "Is Poverty a Death Sentence?" by Sen. Bernie Sanders, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 13, 2011.

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• the principal sources of human misery may fairly be said to lie in the over-possession, under-possession, and the unwise use of economic goods.

  Georgia Harkness

  Lying, Use, May

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• We have learned to turn out lots of goods and services, but we haven't learned as well how to have everybody share in the bounty. The obligation of a society as prosperous as ours is to figure out how nobody gets left too far behind.

  Warren Buffett

  Share, Figures, Obligation

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• Noise is manufactured in the city, just as goods are manufactured. The city is the place where noise is kept in stock, completely detached from the object from which it came.

  Max Picard

  Cities, World, Noise

  Max Picard (1952). “The World of Silence”

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• Jesus, it is true, shows no personal interest in gain, but he does speak of treasure in heaven and even of mansions as an inducement to follow him. Is it not further true that all religions down the ages have shown a keen interest in the amassment of material goods in the real world?

  Christopher Hitchens

  Jesus, Real, Heaven

  Christopher Hitchens (2011). “God is Not Great”, p.114, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• The power of consumer goods . . . has been engendered by the so-called liberal and progressive demands of freedom, and, by appropriating them, has emptied them of their meaning, and changed their nature.

  Pier Paolo Pasolini

  Demand, Progressive, Changed

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• When youre dealing with digital goods, you dont have to be tied to one URL.

  Jason Kilar

  Digital, Tied

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• It is easier to give all your goods to feed the poor, or not to have any goods - only your virtues, to boast of - than it is to judge the rich with charity.

  Corra May Harris

  Judging, Giving, Charity

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• Throughout history, independent minds have carried mankind forward. Whether they identified how to make fire or manufacture tools, develop rational philosophy or create man-glorifying art, pioneer scientific knowledge or invent the electric light, independent thinkers have created the goods on which human life and prosperity depend.

  Andrew Bernstein

  Art, Philosophy, Independent

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• Most people think of the economy as producing goods and services and paying labor to buy what it produces. But a growing part of the economy in every country has been the Finance, Insurance and Real Estate (FIRE) sector, which comprises the rent and interest paid to the economy's balance sheet of assets by debtors and rent payers.

  Michael Hudson

  Country, Real, Thinking

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• When people communicate freely, when labour force, goods, services and funds move freely as well, when there are no state dividing lines and when we have common legal regulation, for example, in the social sphere - all that is good enough, people should feel free.

  Vladimir Putin

  Moving, People, Lines

  "Sott Exclusive: Full unedited text of Vladimir Putin's interview with Charlie Rose: What CBS left out" by Harrison Koehli, www.sott.net. September 29, 2015.

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