Diogenes Quotes
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A ruler makes use of the majority and neglects the minority, and so he does not devote himself to virtue but to law.
Han Fei
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My God, I don't know anyone who likes to accumulate their wealth more than the Europeans.
Edmund Phelps
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Research suggests that large divisions of income and wealth weaken demand and generate economic imbalances that create instability and undermine growth.
Victor Ponta
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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
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Majesty and love do not consort well together, nor do they dwell in the same place.
Ovid
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Unless you are completely retired, earning money is the best form of wealth preservation.
Felix Dennis
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I believe wealth should be in the hands of those who know how to create more wealth.
Zong Qinghou
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Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
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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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Compassion is not a popular virtue.
Karen Armstrong
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I don't like Communism because it hands out wealth through rationing books.
Omar Torrijos Herrera
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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
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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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It would astonish if not amuse the older citizens to learn that I (a strange, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working at ten dollars per month) have been put down as the candidate of pride, wealth, and aristocratic family distinction.
Abraham Lincoln
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No matter how much wealth anybody has, family problems are about the same across the board.
J. B. Pritzker
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My wealth is not a subject I relish discussing.
J. Paul Getty
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A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
Samuel Butler
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In Greece, Italy and, to a lesser extent, France, unsustainable tax cuts and spending sprees added to households' estimates of their private wealth relative to their wage income.
Edmund Phelps
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Full many a lady I have eyed with best regard, and many a time Th' harmony of their tongues hath into bondage Brought my too diligent ear; for several virtues Have I liked several women; never any With so full soul but some defect in her Did quarrel with the noblest grace she owed, And put it to the foil.
William Shakespeare
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To right, the unrightable wrong, to love pure and chaste from a-far, to try when your arms are too weary, to reach the unreachable star.
Jack Jones
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I think Measure C has been a success story. I don't like everything that's happened, but basically, it's been a great tool.
J. M. Roberts
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“All of us see a story according to our own lights. None of us is capable of objectivity.”
Annie Barrows
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Virtue cannot dwell with wealth either in a city or in a house.
Diogenes