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"People do not become world's richest men by praying but by time conversion into products."
"All wealth consists of desirable things; that is, things which satisfy human wants directly or indirectly: but not all desirable things are reckoned as wealth."
"Tyson- "Cash? Like...green paper?"Percy- "Yeah."Tyson- "Like the kind in duffel bags?"Percy-"Yeah, but we lost those bags days a-g-g--." "Tyson! How did you--"Tyson- "Thought it was a feed bag for Rainbow. Found it floating in sea, but only paper inside. Sorry."
"Wealth is relative. Some people aren't really rich, they just have poor neighbors."
"Love makes you the richest person in the world, no matter how poor you are."
"Oh, what darkness does great prosperity cast over our minds!"
"Sometimes you have to risk or give up some of your financial wealth to have a richer life."
"The shortest route to wealth is the contempt of wealth."
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"Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure."
"The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before."
"Labor wants pride and joy in doing good work, a sense of making or doing something beautiful or useful - to be treated with dignity and respect as brother and sister."
"In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes."
"In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing."
"The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature."
"It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest of the community."
"Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress."
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