Andrew Bacevich Quotes
We are squandering our wealth. In many respects, to the extent that we persist in our imperial delusions, we're also going to squander our freedom...

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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.
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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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I believe wealth should be in the hands of those who know how to create more wealth.
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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 spend any time at all thinking about my personal wealth. I suppose if I had nothing, I might think, 'I have nothing.'
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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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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
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If in a country, most of the wealth is concentrated in the hands of the few, then this country can hardly witness harmony and stability.
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What is wealth? A dream of fools.
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The trimmings of wealth are not as important to me and my generation as they were to my parents' generation.
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For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
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I am proud of the fact that my wealth is completely transparent.
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Money was intended to be used in exchange, but not to increase at interest. And this term interest, which means the birth of money from money, is applied to the breeding of money because the offspring resembles the parent. Wherefore of all modes of getting wealth this is the most unnatural.
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In my family, there was not an abundance of wealth, but there was an abundance of love. So there was always humor, and there was joy and there was comfort and there was this environment just to have a good time.
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Whatever you think is delusion.
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The religions of mankind must be classed among the mass-delusions of this kind. No one, needless to say, who shares a delusion ever recognizes it as such.
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The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.
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I believe that we are going to have a much deeper appreciation of what kinds of abnormalities in cancer cells and in the surrounding cells that feed and respond to cancers are vulnerabilities that will allow us to make better predictions of which kinds of drugs will work to treat these cancers.
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It is convenient to distinguish the two kinds of experience which have thus been described, the experienc-ing and the experienc-ed, by technical words.
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We are squandering our wealth. In many respects, to the extent that we persist in our imperial delusions, we're also going to squander our freedom...