Socrates Quotes
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There is no 'natural' order, only the way things are.
Hanna Rosin -
One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.
Harold Coffin -
My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.
Hakeem Olajuwon -
My God, I don't know anyone who likes to accumulate their wealth more than the Europeans.
Edmund Phelps -
Malicious attacks on the Soviet Union produce a natural feeling of indignation.
Yuri Andropov -
When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, 'Oh yes - I already have everything that I really need.'
Dalai Lama
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When you're heartbroken, you're at your most creative - you have to channel all your energies into something else to not think about it. Contentment is a creativity killer, but don't worry - I'm very capable of making myself discontented.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
I take pride in the creation of my wealth, in its existence and in the uses to which it has been and is being put.
J. Paul Getty -
I wash my hair once or twice a week to keep the natural oils.
Camila Alves -
Unless you are completely retired, earning money is the best form of wealth preservation.
Felix Dennis -
All people have a natural desire to be needed, to have their importance to others tangibly confirmed.
Daisaku Ikeda -
Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.
P. G. Wodehouse
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I don't spend any time at all thinking about my personal wealth. I suppose if I had nothing, I might think, 'I have nothing.'
B. Wayne Hughes -
Criminals gravitate into government positions like natural law.
G. Edward Griffin -
We should purify our innate well of contentment - what a wonderful expression - and then external things will be in harmony with us.
Eckhart Tolle -
I don't like Communism because it hands out wealth through rationing books.
Omar Torrijos Herrera -
That the powers of labour, and of the other instruments which produce wealth, may be indefinitely increased by using their products as the means of further production.
Nassau William Senior -
I don't take investment advice from wealth managers. I have grown several businesses from scratch and amassed many millions from my publishing empire - why would I take advice from someone who has never experienced that?
Felix Dennis
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Natural objects, for example, must be experienced before any theorizing about them can occur.
Edmund Husserl -
As an independent artist, you control the means of production, which is the ultimate form of empowerment.
K. Flay -
The gift of water, air, soap, and time allows us to heal and relieve our psyche and soul.
Byllye Avery -
I don't feel my son should pay the price for what I do.
Daniel Day-Lewis -
In the not so distant past, we were close enough to our community to physically see how our actions impacted the group overall. Now it's just too easy to look the other way, or turn off the TV or computer and detach ourselves from the others.
Yehuda Berg -
Contentment is natural wealth.
Socrates