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"The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions."
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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."
"There really is no correlation between age and one's bank balance. I've met wealthy boys and broke men."
"Try not to be like those who hunger for financial success without understanding the difference between their wants and needs."
"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."
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"At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged."
"It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he who holds it possesses a certain quantity of knowledge."
"I am inclined to attach some importance to the new system of manufacturing; and venture to throw it out with the hope of its receiving a full discussion among those who are most interestedin the subject."
"On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."
"That science has long been neglected and declining in England, is not an opinion originating with me, but is shared by many, and has been expressed by higher authority than mine."
"The accumulation of skill and science which has been directed to diminish the difficulty of producing manufactured goods, has not been beneficial to that country alone in which it is concentrated; distant kingdoms have participated in its advantages."
"Those from whose pocket the salary is drawn, and by whose appointment the officer was made, have always a right to discuss the merits of their officers, and their modes of exercising the duties they are paid to perform."
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