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"Among the rich you will never find a really generous man even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egotistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it."
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"The wealth of time is actually of more value than natural resources."

"When the going gets tough: the poor close their eyes, the rich open their wallets."

"To misuse wealth is a great fault."

"I can amass countless fortunes and yet stand with empty hands. I can seek God and have fortunes that fill countless hands."

"Not every happy person is rich, and, Not every rich person is happy."

"Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame."

"I cannot go to the Opera, because I have forsworn all expense which does not end in pleasing me."

"I am opposed to millionaires but it would be dangerous to offer me the position."
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"The crux and crisis is that man found it natural to worship, even natural to worship unnatural things."

"Nobody can imagine how nothing could turn into something. Nobody can get an inch nearer to it by explaining how something could turn into something else. It is really far more logical to start by saying 'In the beginning God created heaven and earth' even ifyou only mean 'In the beginning some unthinkable power began some unthinkable process.' For God is by its nature aname of mystery, and nobody ever supposed that man could imagine how a world was created any more than he couldcreate one. But evolution really is mistaken for explanation. It has the fatal quality of leaving on many minds the impression that they do understand it and everything else."

"Somewhere embedded in every ordinary book are the five or six words for which really all the rest will be written."

"Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say."

"That is the one eternal education: to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child."

"When Nietszche says, "A new commandment I give to you,be hard" he is really saying, "A new commandment I give to you, be dead." Sensibility is the definition oflife."

"All true friendliness begins with fire and food and drink and the recognition of rain or frost. ...Each human soul has in a sense to enact for itself the gigantic humility of the Incarnation. Every man must descend into the flesh to meet mankind."

"But whenever one meets modern thinkers (as one often does) progressing towards a madhouse, one always finds, on inquiry, that they have just had a splendid escape from another madhouse. Thus, hundreds of people become Socialists, not because they have tried Socialism and found it nice, but because they have tried Individualism and found it nasty."
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