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• The main source of our wealth is goodness. The affections and the generous qualities that God admires in a world full of greed.

  Alfred Armand Montapert

  Generosity, Greed, Quality

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• For everything divine and human, virtue, fame, and honor, now obey the alluring influence of riches.

  Horace

  Honor, Riches, Influence

  "Satires", II. 3. 94, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 864-67, 1922.

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• I trust no rich man who is officiously kind to a poor man.

  Plautus

  Men, Kind, Rich

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 864-67, Aulularia, II. 2. 30, 1922.

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• Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Time, Money, Greatest Wealth

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• Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.

  Rita Rudner

  Funny, Inspiring, Money

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• Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Sarcastic, Money, Sarcasm

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• Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Success, Best Love, Money

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1808). “Select Essays and Poems”, p.90

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• It is inconceivable that, in the richest nation in the world, we have 30 million people at risk of hunger. I believe that, if we truly make a commitment as a nation, we can defeat hunger.

  Bo Derek

  Believe, Commitment, People

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• When Jesus warns us not to store up treasures on earth, it's not just because wealth might be lost; it's because wealth will always be lost. Either it leaves us while we live, or we leave it when we die. No exceptions....Realizing its value is temporary should radically affect our investment strategy.... According to Jesus, storing up earthly treasures isn't simply wrong. It's just plain stupid.

  Randy Alcorn

  Jesus, Stupid, Treasure

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• The way to wealth depends on just two words, industry and frugality.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Money, Two, Way

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• My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions but in the fewness of my wants.

  Joseph Brotherton

  Happiness, Attitude, Simple

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• There are two ways to be rich in life: have what you want or want what you have.

  Jack Hyles

  Two, Want, Way

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• The wealthy seldom possess wealth: oftener they are possessed by it.

  Ivan Panin

  Wealthy, Possessed

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• Contentment is natural wealth.

  Socrates

  Happiness, Contentment, Natural

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• A library of wisdom, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it. Whoever therefore claims to be zealous of truth, of happiness, of wisdom or knowledge, must become a lover of books.

  Plato

  Book, Wealth And Happiness, Wealth Of Knowledge

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• Many men want wealth,--not a competence alone, but a live-story competence. Everything subserves this; and religion they would like as a sort of lightning-rod to their houses, to ward off by and by the bolts of Divine wrath.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Wrath, House

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• Money is good for bribing yourself through the inconveniences of life.

  Gottfried Reinhardt

  Motivational, Money, Riches

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• Nothing keeps longer than a middling fortune, and nothing melts away sooner than a large one.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Fortune

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• Wealth is the smallest thing on earth, the least gift that God has bestowed on mankind.

  Martin Luther

  Earth, Mankind, Smallest

  Martin Luther (1848). “The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt”, p.67

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• The greatest country, the richest country, is not that which has the most capitalists, monopolists, immense grabbings, vast fortunes, with its sad, sad soil of extreme, degrading, damning poverty, but the land in which there are the most homesteads, freeholds - where wealth does not show such contrasts high and low, where all men have enough - a modest living- and no man is made possessor beyond the sane and beautiful necessities.

  Walt Whitman

  Beautiful, Country, Men

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• Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly.

  Jean Cocteau

  Attitude, Mind, May

  Jean Cocteau (1966). “The Holy Terrors (Les Enfants Terribles)”, p.85, New Directions Publishing

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• In every Indigenous community I've been in, they absolutely do want community infrastructure and they do want development, but they want it on their own terms. They want to be able to use their national resources and their assets in a way that protects and sustains them. Our territories are our wealth, the major assets we have. And Indigenous people use and steward this property so that they can achieve and maintain a livelihood, and achieve and maintain that same livelihood for future generations.

  Rebecca Adamson

  People, Community, Generations

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• We must not only control the weapons that can kill us, we must bridge the great disparities of wealth and opportunity among the peoples of the world, the vast majority of whom live in poverty without hope, opportunity or choices in life. These conditions are a breeding ground for division that can cause a desperate people to resort to nuclear weapons as a last resort. Our only hope lies in the power of our love, generosity, tolerance and understanding and our commitment to making the world a better place.

  Muhammad Ali

  Lying, Commitment, Opportunity

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• The nature of the economic system should be a matter for public choice, and free market capitalism should not be accepted without any discussion of the rich variety of alternatives ... Unlike civil laws, economic laws are imposed on people with all the authority of immutable laws of nature. But the economy is created by people, supported by government intervention, regulation, statute and subsidy, and implemented in such a way that it gives substantial wealth and power to a privileged few, while the majority face a life of relentless work, stress and periodic financial insecurity.

  Tony Benn

  Stress, Acceptance, Government Intervention

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• Democracy is just a word. You have to give it meaning. The US is not a democracy. Most Americans do not vote. We haven't had a real choice for a long, long time now. Wealth rules. Corporations rule. The US is a plutocracy - government by wealthy people. Certain people control multinational corporations. You couldn't get elected in the US without lots of money.

  Ramsey Clark

  Money, Real, Government

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