Socrates Quotes
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There is no 'natural' order, only the way things are.
Hanna Rosin -
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 -
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
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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 -
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 -
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
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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 -
Natural objects, for example, must be experienced before any theorizing about them can occur.
Edmund Husserl
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Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.
Socrates -
Tradition has it that whenever a group of people has tasted the lovely fruits of wealth, security, and prestige, it begins to find it more comfortable to believe in the obvious lie and accept that it alone is entitled to privilege.
Steven Biko -
For me, acting is becoming naked in front of people, you know? And when you know in the back of your mind somebody is testing you, you cannot really bare yourself. That's a feeling I always have when I'm auditioning.
Irrfan Khan -
The young people of today think of nothing but themselves. They have no reverence for parents or old age. They are impatient of all restraint. They talk as if they alone knew everything and what passes for wisdom with us is foolishness with them. As for girls, they are forward, immodest and unwomanly in speech, behaviour and dress.
Socrates -
Contentment is natural wealth.
Socrates