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- Nov 07, 2020
Wealth Quotes
What money builds, and what it costs.
This selection isn't shy about contradiction: one voice describes wealth and poverty living side by side in Mexico with real cordiality, while another credits an entire way of life for producing greater prosperity and comfort, in the vein of Great quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, first, the situation in Afghanistan is much better than it was. But there is no comparison between Afghanistan and Iraq. Iraq has a bureaucracy, Iraq has wealth. Iraq has an educated class of people who are positioned to come in and take over.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a world where wealth is growing, you can get away with printing money. Doubling the debt over the next 20 years is not a problem.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not overly alarmist about it, but I do think there are some worrying signs, like the growing accumulation of wealth by a very small proportion of the population, plus elections in the US are much more dominated by money than anywhere else calling itself a democracy.
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- Nov 07, 2020
What point is there to all the wealth and power that America may have if they can't look after its own?
- Nov 07, 2020
Cities are drivers of growth and wealth, and at the same time, cities are becoming increasingly violent.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you look back 600 years ago, royals' sole goal was to keep their wealth within the family.
- Innovation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
I attended school regularly for three years. I learned to read and write. 'Lamb's Tales' from Shakespeare was my favourite reading matter. I stole, by finding, Palgrave's 'Golden Treasury.' These two books, and the 'Everyman' edition of John Keats, were my proudest and dearest possessions, my greatest wealth.
- Poverty
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- Nov 07, 2020
We regard wealth as something to be properly used, rather than as something to boast about. As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it: the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.
- Economic Activity
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- Nov 07, 2020
We cannot eliminate poverty without enabling developing countries to engage more people in economic activity that use natural resources, and we cannot resolve runaway climate change without creating wealth in a more equitable and less carbon intensive way.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Indeed it is the protean ability of Western civilization to be self-critical and self-correcting - not only in producing wealth but over the whole range of human activities - that constitutes its most decisive superiority over any of its rivals.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The brutal history of colonialism is one in which white people literally stole land and people for their own gain and material wealth.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only way to gain the kinds of often-generational wealth that the 1% has been able to gain is through controlling the populations it relied on to make its wealth.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think there's a lot of anesthesia being - that's been pumped into American culture, the mass media television, various forms of entertainment, and the illusion of wealth that we now understand to be an illusion as well as the illusion that America is a world power.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We should all expect to be able to die with comfort, dignity and love. Our society does not lack the wealth to realise this aspiration, but the willpower.
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- Nov 07, 2020