Wealth Quotes - Page 14

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Christopher Columbus introduced two phenomena that revolutionized race relations and transformed the modern world: the taking of land, wealth, and labor from indigenous people in the Western Hemisphere, leading to their near extermination, and the transatlantic slave trade, which created a racial underclass.

  James W. Loewen

  Race, Land, Two

  James W. Loewen (2013). “Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong”, p.72, The New Press

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• The great struggle of history has been for the control over money. It is almost tautological to affirm that to control the production and distribution of money is to control the wealth, resources, and people of the world.

  Jack Weatherford

  Struggle, People, World

  Jack Weatherford (2009). “The History of Money”, p.246, Crown Business

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• Dictatorships usually exist primarily because of the internal power distribution in the home country. The population and society are too weak to cause the dictatorship serious problems, wealth and power are concentrated in too few hands. Although dictatorships may benefit from or be somewhat weakened by international actions, their continuation is dependent primarily on internal factors.

  Gene Sharp

  Country, Home, Hands

  Gene Sharp (2010). “From Dictatorship to Democracy: A Conceptual Framework for Liberation”, p.7, Albert Einstein Institution

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• Sharing the code just seems like The Right Thing to Do. It costs us rather little, but it benefits a lot of people in sometimes very significant ways. There are many university research projects, proof of concept publisher demos, and new platform test beds that have leveraged the code. Free software that people value adds wealth to the world.

  John Carmack

  People, Bed, Add

  "John Carmack: Making the Magic Happen" by Brad Cook, www.bradcook.net. February 2009.

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• Wealth is not only what you have but it is also what you are.

  Sterling W Sill

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• The few men who possess the wealth of the material things of the earth at the present time are not truly happy.

  Joseph Franklin Rutherford

  Men, Earth, Truly Happy

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• Whether the aim is in heaven or on earth, wisdom or wealth, the essential condition of its pursuit and attainment is always security and order.

  Johan Huizinga

  Order, Aquariums, Heaven

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• How strange and foolish is man. He looses his health in gaining wealth. Then to regain health he wastes his wealth. He ruins is present while worrying about his future - but weeps in the future by recalling his past. He lives as though death shall never come to him - but dies in a way as if he were never born.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Past, Men, Worry

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• No wealth like education and no poverty like ignorance

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Ignorance, Poverty

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• The real duty of man is not to extend his power or multiply his wealth beyond his needs, but to enrich and enjoy his imperishable possession: his soul.

  Gilbert Highet

  Real, Men, Soul

  Gilbert Highet (2015). “The Classical Tradition: Greek and Roman Influences on Western Literature”, p.549, Oxford University Press

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• I don't resent working long hours. I shouldn't- I'm the one who set up my life this way. I love to work. It's the thing that I get the most satisfaction out of-nd probably what I do best. Not that I don't enjoy days off. I love vacations and loafing around. But I think much of the world has the wrong idea of working. It's one of the good things in life. The feeling of accomplishment is more real and satisfying than finishing a good meal- or looking at one's accumulated wealth.

  Jim Henson

  Real, Thinking, Vacation

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• Statement of Being. There is one Mind, and I AM that Mind. That Mind is eternal, and it is Life. I am that Mind, and I am ETERNAL LIFE. That Mind knows no disease; I am that Mind, and I am HEALTH. That Mind is the source of all Power, and cannot know doubt nor fear; I am that M ind, and I am POW ER and PEACE. That M ind knows only Truth and knows ALL truth; I am that M ind, and I am KNOW LEDGE and WISDOM . All things created and uncreated, are in that Mind; I am that Mind, and I am WEALTH and PLENTY. I am the WAY, and the TRUTH, and the LIFE; the LIGHT in me shines out to bless the world.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Light, Shining, Doubt

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• One man pretends to be rich, yet has nothing; another pretends to be poor, yet has great wealth.

  Solomon

  Men, Rich, Poor

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• Two forms of government are favorable to the prevalence of falsehood and deceit. Under a Despotism, men are false, treacherous, and deceitful through fear, like slaves dreading the lash. Under a Democracy they are so as a means of attaining popularity and office, and because of the greed for wealth.

  Albert Pike

  Mean, Men, Two

  Albert Pike “Morals and Dogma : Scottish Rite in Freemasonry”, Lulu.com

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• Wealth is a relational barrier. It keeps us from having open relationships.

  Randy Alcorn

  Open Relationship, Barriers

  Randy Alcorn (2011). “Money, Possessions, and Eternity”, p.458, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• The opportunities for using our financial resources to spread the gospel and strengthen the church all over the world are greater than they've ever been. As God raised up Esther for just such a time as hers, I'm convinced he's raise us up, with all our wealth, to help fulfill the great commission. The question is, what are we doing with that money? Our job is to make sure it gets to his intended recipients.

  Randy Alcorn

  Jobs, Opportunity, Church

  Randy Alcorn (2011). “Money, Possessions, and Eternity”, p.377, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Take this wealth and this fame, always stay humble, keep your family close, and do ridiculously crazy things.

  Rob Dyrdek

  Crazy, Humble, Fame

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• I had one idea that never changed in my mind - that you should use your wealth to help people.

  Chuck Feeney

  Ideas, People, Mind

  "The Billionaire Who Wasn't: How Chuck Feeney Secretly Made and Gave Away a Fortune". Book by Conor O'Clery, September 23, 2007.

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