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“Jesus tended to honor the losers of this world, not the winners. Our modern culture extravagantly rewards beauty, athletic skill, wealth, and artistic achievement, qualities which seemed to impress Jesus not at all.”

World Culture Jesus Wealth Quality Modern This World Honor Skills Achievement Rewards Artistic Winner Loser Impress Athletic Modern Culture

Author:Philip Yancey

“To grow up in intimate association with nature - animal and vegetable - is an irreplaceable form of wealth and culture.”

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Book:Childhood At Brindabella: My First Ten Years

Source: Childhood At Brindabella: My First Ten Years

“Our culture says Status is more important than Wealth, but we teach the opposite.”

Important Culture Wealth Teach Opposites

Author:Orrin Woodward

“There is no greater wealth than wisdom, no greater poverty than ignorance; no greater heritage than culture and no greater support than consultation.”

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Author:Ali ibn Abi Talib

“This country of ours has more wealth than any nation, but that's not what makes us rich. We have the most powerful military on Earth, but that's not what makes us strong. Our universities and our culture are the envy of the world, but that's not what keeps the world coming to our shores. Instead, it is that American spirit - that American promise - that pushes us forward even when the path is uncertain; that binds us together in spite of our differences; that makes us fix our eye not on what is seen, but what is unseen, that better place around the bend.”

“There is the past and its continuing horrors: violence, war, prejudices against those who are different, outrageous monopolization of the good earth's wealth by a few, political power in the hands of liars and murderers, the building of prisons instead of schools, the poisoning of the press and the entire culture by money. It is easy to become discouraged observing this, especially since this is what the press and television insist that we look at, and nothing more.”

Source: A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present

“Equal wealth and equal opportunities of culture have simply made us all members of one class.”

Made Culture Opportunity Wealth Class Equal Members Equal Opportunity

Author:Edward Bellamy

“The paths by which people journey toward happiness lie in part through the world about them and in part through the experience of their souls. On the one hand, there is the happiness which comes from wealth, honor, the enjoyment of life, from health, culture, science, or art; and, on the other hand, there is the happiness which is to be found in a good conscience, in virtue, work, philanthropy, religion, devotion to great ideas and great deeds.”

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Book:Happiness - Essays On The Meaning Of Life

Source: Happiness - Essays On The Meaning Of Life

“Leisure, itself the creation of wealth, is incessantly engaged in transmuting wealth into beauty by secreting the surplus energy which flowers in great architecture, great painting and great literature. Only in the atmosphere thus engendered floats that impalpable dust of ideas which is the real culture. A colony of ants or bees will never create a Parthenon.”

Ideas Real Culture Literature Energy Wealth Creation Painting Flower Architecture Dust Atmosphere Engaged Leisure Bees Floats Ants Colony Surplus Incessantly Great Literature Parthenon

Author:Edith Wharton

“With material wealth and in a culture where many of us defines our self-worth by what we have and what we own and what we achieve, it's very hard to comprehend that there are enclaves all over our big country in which people are very purposefully choosing to maintain different values.”

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Author:Debra Granik

“In a culture where the possibility of wealth and the acquisition of things is so defining of success, we end up pursuing things that, even if we are successful, can never deliver what we envisioned they would. The reason riches become such a snare is because we end up evaluating life in mercenary terms and being seen by others in such terms, and life is just not so.”

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Author:Ravi Zacharias