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“Marriage emerged some forty-five hundred years ago and evolved into a widespread and accepted institution that bonded families, maintained order, and created wealth. Unlike today, where many of us are searching for our romantic "soul mate," marriage was originally more about economics than deep emotion.”

Years Soul Today Order Wealth Emotion Five Hundred Years Ago Economics Institutions Accepted Forty Mates Soul Mate Deep Emotions

Book:'Till Death Do Us Part: Love, Marriage, and the Mind of the Killer Spouse

Source: 'Till Death Do Us Part: Love, Marriage, and the Mind of the Killer Spouse

“In the early forties and fifties almost everybody "had about enough to live on," and young ladies dressed well on a hundred dollars a year. The daughters of the richest man in Boston were dressed with scrupulous plainness, and the wife and mother owned one brocade, which did service for several years. Display was considered vulgar. Now, alas! only Queen Victoria dares to go shabby.”

Men Years Wells Enough Young Mother Wealth Wife Fashion Daughter Hundred Dollars Dare Queens Forty Display Vulgar Alas Boston Victoria Young Ladies Shabby Wives And Mothers Plainness

Author:M. E. W. Sherwood

“The economy is a ponzi scheme. People are working harder than they ever have for less wages, but we have so many bobbles because manufacturing has come up so quickly over the past hundred years that people have the illusion of wealth.”

People Years Past Wealth Economy Illusion Hundred Harder Come Up Schemes Wages Manufacturing Over The Past Ponzi Scheme

Author:Alex Jones

“When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals. We shall be able to rid ourselves of many of the pseudo-moral principles which have hag-ridden us for two hundred years, by which we have exulted some of the most distasteful of human qualities into the highest virtues.”

Source: The collected writings of John Maynard Keynes

“From some tiny portion of the wealth the west accumulated in a hundred years of filling the atmosphere with carbon.”

Years Wealth Hundred West Tiny Atmosphere Portions Carbon Filling

Author:Bill McKibben

“Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband.”

Years Funny Wealth Money Wife Husband Hundred Dollars Prosperity Income Funny Money

Author:H. L. Mencken

“Imagine the earth’s population of six billion people reduced to just one hundred representatives. Statistically, that makes 30 white, 70 non-white. It means 6 people own 59% of the wealth and they all live in North America. 80 are in substandard housing. One has an education. One owns a computer. Don’t blame me if it all sounds crazy.”

People Ifs Mean Earth America Sound Wealth White Imagine Crazy Six Computer Hundred Blame Population Billions Just One Representatives Housing North America Blame Me Don't Blame Me

Author:Grant Morrison