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• Riches are oftener an impediment than a stimulus to action; and in many cases they are quite as much a misfortune as a blessing.

  Samuel Smiles

  Blessing, Riches, Action

  Samuel Smiles (1866). “Self-help: With Illustrations of Charakter, Conduct and Perseverance”, p.311

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• Wealth is a great sin in the eyes of God. Poverty is a great sin in the eyes of man.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Eye, Men, Poverty

  "Path of Life". Book by Leo Tolstoy, Translated by M. Cote (2002), p.86, 1909.

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• Wealth held by a class and used ambitiously becomes as despotic as an absolute monarchy, and has in its hands manners, customs, laws, institutions, and governments themselves.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Government, Hands, Law

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• Imperialism creates the illusion of wealth as far as the masses are concerned. It usually serves to hide the fact that the ruling classes are gobbling up the natural resources of the home territory in an improvident manner and are otherwise utilizing the national wealth largely for their own purposes. Eventually the general public is called upon to pay for all of this, frequently after the military machine can no longer maintain external aggression.

  Jack D. Forbes

  Military, Home, Class

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• The Olympic Movement is a 20th century religion. Where there is no injustice of caste, of race, of family, of wealth.

  Avery Brundage

  Race, Religion, Movement

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• The history of taxation shows that taxes which are inherently excessive are not paid. The high rates inevitably put pressure upon the taxpayer to withdraw his capital from productive business and invest it in tax-exempt securities or to find other lawful methods of avoiding the realization of taxable income. The result is that the sources of taxation are drying up; wealth is failing to carry its share of the tax burden; and capital is being diverted into channels which yield neither revenue to the Government nor profit to the people.

  Andrew Mellon

  Yield, Government, People

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• The #1 business opportunity for those who want to create new wealth is educating consumers about products and services that will improve their lives.

  Paul Zane Pilzer

  Opportunity, Want, Consumers

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• We hear about the successful "Texanisation" of the Republican party. And doesn't Texas sometimes seem to resemble a country like Saudi Arabia, with its great heat, its oil wealth, its brimming houses of worship, and its weekly executions?

  Martin Amis

  Country, Texas, Oil

  "Palace of the end" by Martin Amis, www.theguardian.com. December 29, 2003.

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• Invest in yourself. Your career is the engine of your wealth.

  Paul Clitheroe

  Investing Money, Careers, Investment

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• Because of new technologies, new wealth, new conditions of domestic life and of international relations, unprecedented criteria and issues are coming up for national decision.

  Herman Kahn

  Technology, Issues, Decision

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• The rich live the same all over the world.

  Christian Dior

  World, Rich

  "Christian Dior: The Man Who Made the World Look New". Book by Marie-France Pochna, 1996.

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• Old Care has a mortgage on every estate, And that's what you pay for the wealth that you get.

  John Godfrey Saxe

  Care, Pay, Mortgage

  John Godfrey Saxe (1872). “The Poems: Complete in One Volume”, p.11

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• A scientist with a poet's command of language, Cristina Eisenberg writes with precision and passion . . . takes her reader on a breathtaking, sometimes heartbreaking tour of the planet from the Gulf of Maine to the Amazonian rain forests, the tropical coral reefs to old growth forests of the Northwest as well as rivers, lakes, and wetlands. I found the wealth of information not only accessible but riveting . . . Eisenberg's powerful, beautifully written book . . . has the potential to open many people's eyes, minds, and hearts.

  Elizabeth Cunningham

  Powerful, Rain, Book

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• While some multimillionaires started in poverty, most did not. A study of the origins of 303 textile, railroad and steel executives of the 1870s showed that 90 percent came from middle- or upper-class families. The Horatio Alger stories of "rags to riches" were true for a few men, but mostly a myth, and a useful myth for control.

  Howard Zinn

  Men, Class, Rags

  Howard Zinn (2015). “A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present”, p.254, Routledge

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• Hope roves in a future of fame and wealth.

  Adelbert von Chamisso

  Fame

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• You shouldn't do science just to improve wealth - do science for the sake of human culture and
  knowledge.
  There must be some purpose in life that is higher than just surviving.

  Gerhard

  Culture, Purpose, Sake

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• The US, for historical reasons, mistrusts the concept of a welfare state, and this mistrust shows itself nakedly under present US government, which commits uncounted billions of the national wealth to what it calls defence, and is close-fisted in giving money to plans which would ameliorate the grinding poverty of a great part of its people. Quite simply, in Canada you could not get away with that.

  Robertson Davies

  Giving Money, Government, People

  Robertson Davies (1997). “The Merry Heart: Reflections on Reading, Writing, and the World of Books”, Viking Press

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• When you follow your heart instead of worrying about how to fatten your bank account, you can attract more ways to do both.

  Daylle Deanna Schwartz

  Money, Heart, Worry

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• Material abundance without character is the surest way to destruction.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Character, Way, Abundance

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• England was nothing, compared to continental nations until she had become commercial... until about the middle of the last century, when a number of ingenious and inventive men, without apparent relation to each other, arose in various parts of the kingdom, succeeded in giving an immense impulse to all the branches of the national industry; the result of which has been a harvest of wealth and prosperity, perhaps without a parallel in the history of the world.

  Samuel Smiles

  Men, Numbers, Giving

  "Lives of the Engineers". Book by Samuel Smiles, 1861.

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• Seneca's virtue shows forth so live and vigorous in his writings, and the defense is so clear there against some of these imputations, as that of his wealth and excessive spending, that I would not believe any testimony to the contrary.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Believe, Writing, Defense

  Michel de Montaigne (1979). “Essays”

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• Some books are drenchèd sandsOn which a great soul's wealth lies all in heaps,Like a wrecked argosy.

  Alexander Smith

  Lying, Book, Soul

  Alexander Smith (1853). “Poems”

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• I believe that the only people who really, truly benefit from any of the policies of Republicans are the wealthy. I'm in that 1 percent tax bracket, but I'm not a man of wealth.

  Questlove

  Believe, Men, People

  "Interview: How Questlove Stays Occupied" by Aaron Ross, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2011.

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• The rich people are those who create wealth, and you have to treat them well so they continue to give wealth.

  Augusto Pinochet

  People, Giving, Rich

  Speech, May 26, 1988.

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• The noblest people are those despising wealth, learning, pleasure and life; esteeming above them poverty, ignorance, hardship and death.

  Diogenes

  Ignorance, People, Hardship

  "Anthology (Book 4)". Book by Joannes Stobaeus, 1536.

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