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• Lifting your eyes from the things of this world is an activity that must begin where you are.

  K. P. Yohannan

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• Contemporary science is based on the philosophy of materialism, which claims that all reality is material or physical.

  Rupert Sheldrake

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• G-d tests us I pleasant surroundings. We become infatuated with the surroundings and forget about the test.

  Shraga Silverstein

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• Our problem is not only that industrial societies have failed to keep all of their promises, but that they have succeeded in some ways beyond all expectations. Abundance was once a distant dream, to be postponed to a hereafter of milk and honey; today, most Americans are affluent. Universal mass education was once a utopian goal…

  Kenneth Keniston

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• The man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.

  Henry David Thoreau

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• He is not fit for riches who is afraid to use them.

  Thomas Fuller

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• If your Riches are yours, why don’t you take them with you t’other World?

  Benjamin Franklin

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• In every well governed state, wealth is a sacred thing; in democracies it is the only sacred thing. Anatole France Penguin Island who have a little, than by those who have nothing.

  Charles Caleb Colton

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• Wealth maketh many friends

  Holy Bible

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• Riches are a good handmaid, but the worst mistress.

  Francis Bacon

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• Every man knows G-D is on his side. The rich and powerful know He is.

  Jean Anouilh

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• The Almighty Dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land.

  Washington Irving

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• Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

  Aphra Behn

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• Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.

  Francis Bacon

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• A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things.

  Holy Bible

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• It’s a glorious time to be an American but the glories come at you so relentlessly, so multitudinously, that they will finish you off unless you ration the intake. Nikita Kruschev, poor dolt, once said the Soviet Union  Would bury us. He didn’t know that, left alone, we would bury ourselves under our own riches.

  Russell Baker

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• The problem with borrowing money is that as soon as one has, one inevitably begins to think of it as one’s own. One becomes used to it, treats it like family, and may even come to resent or lose sight of the fact that it must all someday leave to visit someone else.

  Andrew Tobias

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• The world is progressing and resources are becoming more abundant. I’d rather go into a grocery store today than to a king’s banquet a hundred years ago.

  Bill Gates

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• You don’t want to be that parent – the one who dresses his kid in a cloth sack when all the other kids are in Armani cloth sacks – especially in a time like ours, when materialism is not only rampant and ascendant but is fast becoming the only game in town.

  George Saunders

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• To suppose as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and stay sober.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

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