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Churches also have their problems with a Jesus whose only economics are jokes.
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Wealth and poverty
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wealth and poverty)
The urbane activity with which a man receives money is really marvellous, considering that we so earnestly believe money to be the root of all earthly ills, and that on no account can a monied man enter heaven. Ah! How cheerfully we consign ourselves to perdition!
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Let us never forget this fundamental truth: the State has no source of money other than money which people earn themselves. If the State wishes to spend more it can do so only by borrowing your savings or by taxing you more. It is no good thinking that someone else will pay, that'someone elsè is you. There is no such thing as public money; there is only taxpayers'money.
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There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love.
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I'd like to live like a poor man with lots of money.
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If the poor found the rich disposed to supply their wants, or if the weak might always find protection from the mighty, they could none of them lament their own condition.
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Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
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If you own a rug you own too much.
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One just spends as much money as one has. Very peculiar that! You never actually have any money. You think, If I had this much money ten years ago, I would have thought I was amazingly rich, but I still manage to spend it all and not have any left.
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I have turned my entire attention to Greek. The first thing I shall do, as soon as the money arrives, is to buy some Greek authors; after that, I shall buy clothes.
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