"Wealth is a gift from God, and pride is bequeathed to us from the devil."
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"Individual and national rights to wealth rest on the basis of civil and international law, or at least of custom that has the force of law."
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"Those three divine attributes of a perfect woman: goodness, beauty and wealth."
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"Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well"
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"Wealth, taste and leisure can bring many things but they do not bring happiness."
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"Devotees are not impressed by the poverty or wealth in material sense in any way; what impresses is devotion."
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"First problem. To produce wealth. Second problem. To distribute it."
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"Riches seldom make their owners rich."
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"Writers write for fame, wealth, power and the love of women."
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"But this wealth of information produced little or no insight."
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"That is what capitalism is: a system that brings wealth to the many, not just the few."
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"It's easier to get rich than it is to explain not getting rich."
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"Thus my learning is not my own; it belongs to the unlearned and is the debt I owe themMy wisdom belongs to the foolish, my power to the oppressed. Thus my wealth belongs to the poor, my righteousness to the sinners."
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"Wealth is not necessarily a bad thing when it has been earned in an honest manner and neither other individuals nor the environment suffered for it."
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"I actually believe in redistribution (of wealth)"
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"I believe in returning the nation's wealth to its rightful owners."
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"A nation cannot prosper long when it favors only the prosperous."
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"I promised to bring change to Washington. The underlying reason for the economic mess we're in has been building for years. It's a fundamental imbalance in which the top 1 percent now gets almost a quarter of all national income. We haven't seen income and wealth this concentrated since the late nineteen twenties, and we all know what happened then - the Great Depression. We'll never really get out of the gravitational pull of the Great Recession until we fix this basic problem."
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"Titles are tinsel, power a corrupter, glorya bubble, and excessive wealth a libel on its possessor."
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"I have no interest in celebrities. If all the superrich disappeared, the world economy would not even notice. The superrich are irrelevant to the economy."
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