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«I'm staggered by the question of what it's like to be a multimillionaire. I always have to remind myself that I am.»
Author: Bruce Willis
(Actor, Producer)
| About:
Money,
Wealth
| Keywords:
stagger, staggered, staggering, staggers
«I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.»
«Gross National Product measures neither the health of our children, the quality of their education, nor the joy of their play. It measures neither the beauty of our poetry, nor the strength of our marriages. It is indifferent to the decency of our factories and the safety of our streets alike. It measures neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our wit nor our courage, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country. It measures everything in short, except that which makes life worth living. It can tell us everything about our country, except those things that make us proud to be a part of it.»
«He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Wealth
«Gross and vulgar minds will always pay a higher respect to wealth than to talent; for wealth, although it be a far less efficient source of power than talent, happens to be far more intelligible»
«Give me the poverty that enjoys true wealth.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Poverty,
Wealth
| Keywords:
enjoys
«If a rich man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.»
«If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of potential -- for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints; possibility never.»
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
(Philosopher, Theologian)
| About:
Power,
Wealth,
Wishes
| Keywords:
ardent, disappoints, eye, for anything, passionate, possibility, potential, The Eye, wealth
«He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him»
«If it were (Is it not) outrageous that society should treat with such rigid precision those of its members who were most poorly endowed in the distribution or wealth that chance had made, and who were, therefore, most worthy of indulgence.»
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