Beatrice Webb Quotes
The possession of wealth, and especially the inheritance of wealth, seems almost invariably to sterilize genius.
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What's genius about 'Gravity' is that you are close upon the actors, but 3D works best when you have foreground, middle ground and background.
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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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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 believe wealth should be in the hands of those who know how to create more wealth.
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My dad was a serious alcoholic, and ultimately, that's why he died. When you're a child of someone who struggled with things like that, you look for the common thread. Is there a pattern? Is there an inheritance of pathology in some way? That haunts me.
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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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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 do love the clothes on 'Mad Men' because my character has been so elegant and I would never have had access to these clothes. I think Janie Bryant is a costume designing genius. They'll call and tell me, 'It will only take an hour,' and I'm like, 'I will try on the whole truck!'
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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
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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.
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No matter how much wealth anybody has, family problems are about the same across the board.
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My wealth is not a subject I relish discussing.
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Don't accumulate if you do not need. The excess of wealth in your hands is for the society, and you are the trustee for the same.
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If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is none over for works of imagination; of spiritual insight or mystical enlightenment. I asked for bread and was given a tranquilliser.
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You are a potential genius; there is no problem you cannot solve, and no answer you cannot find somewhere.
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The true defense against wealth is not a fear of wealth - of its fragility and of the vicious consequences that it can bring - the true defense against wealth is an indifference to money.
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The world taught women nothing skillful and then said her work was valueless. It permitted her no opinions and said she did not know how to think. It forbade her to speak in public and said the sex had no orators. It denied her the schools, and said the sex had no genius. It robbed her of every vestige of responsibility, and then called her weak. It taught her that every pleasure must come as a favor from men and when, to gain it, she decked herself in paint and fine feathers, as she had been taught to do, it called her vain.
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It's an amazing feeling to have, I find it very hard to believe.
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The serve really is the key to my game.
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The possession of wealth, and especially the inheritance of wealth, seems almost invariably to sterilize genius.
