Socrates Quotes
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.
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The purpose of all wars, is peace.
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My God, I don't know anyone who likes to accumulate their wealth more than the Europeans.
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Moses freed the Jews. Lincoln freed the slaves. I freed the neurotics.
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Wealth won't give you satisfaction; creating a good product that's well received by users is what matters most.
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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.
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Unless you are completely retired, earning money is the best form of wealth preservation.
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Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.
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I don't like Communism because it hands out wealth through rationing books.
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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.
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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?
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My wealth is not a subject I relish discussing.
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Iraq has the most extensive petrochemical industry in the Middle East and a wealth of vaccine factories, single-cell protein research labs, medical and veterinary manufacturing centers and water treatment plants.
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What is wealth? A dream of fools.
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They got money for wars, but can't feed the poor.
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Our air, water, soil, forests, oceans, rivers, lakes, scenic beauty, wildlife habitat, minerals, that is the wealth of the country.
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The call of God is not a reflection of my nature; my personal desires and temperament are of no consideration. As long as I dwell on my own qualities and traits and think about what I am suited for, I will never hear the call of God.
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Sometimes, with the scale of a film, it's like when I walked on the sets of "The Matrix," especially in "Reloaded," there was the city square, or in "Revolutions" with some of the machine world, you're like, "Wow, this is a big playground," which is fun to watch. But the acting experience and the collaborating and creating the world, working on the piece, they're the same joys.
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A soul who loves Jesus Christ desires to be treated the way Christ was treated-desires to be poor, despised, and humiliated.
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We have no desire to be the world's policeman. But America does want to be the world's peacemaker.
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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together: our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our own virtues.
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It is true, that all married men have their own way, but the trouble is they don't all have their own way of having it.
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A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
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I don't like the term 'ensemble.' It's bland to me.
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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.
