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“To desire money is much nobler than to desire success. Desiring money may mean desiring to return to your country, or marry the woman you love, or ransom your father from brigands. But desiring success must mean that you take an abstract pleasure in the unbrotherly act of distancing and disgracing other men.”

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Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.”

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Author:Jonathan Swift

“If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.”

Source: Speeches and messages to Congress, proclamations, and addresses

“It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves.”

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Author:Taylor Caldwell

“Money is a guarantee that we may have what we want in the future. Though we need nothing at the moment it insures the possibility of satisfying a new desire when it arises.”

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Author:Aristotle

“Right now, and in every now-moment, you are either closing or opening. You are either stressfully waiting for something - more money, security, affection - or you are living from your deep heart, opening as the entire moment, and giving what you most deeply desire to give, without waiting.”

Source: Blue Truth: A Spiritual Guide to Life and Death and Love and Sex

“Wealth and rank are what men desire, but unless they be obtained in the right way they may not be possessed. Poverty and obscurity are what men detest; but unless prosperity be brought about in the right way, they are not to be abandoned.”

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Author:Confucius

“My definition of financial freedom is simple: it is the ability to live the lifestyle you desire without having to work or rely on anyone else for money.”

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Author:T. Harv Eker

“Superfluous money buys wasted time, propelling desires that otherwise lay buried beneath the feet of honest toil.”

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Author:Cyril Smith

“The cultivated mind is the guardian genius of democracy. It is the only dictator that free man acknowledges. It is the only security that free man desires.”

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Author:Mirabeau B. Lamar

“There is no calamity greater than lavish desires. There is no greater guilt than discontent. And there is no greater disaster than greed.”

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Author:Laozi

“All should be taught that the highest ambition is to be happy, and to add to the well-being of others; that place and power are not necessary to success; that the desire to acquire great wealth is a kind of insanity. They should be taught that it is a waste of energy, a waste of thought, a waste of life, to acquire what you do not need and what you do not really use for the benefit of yourself or others.”

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Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll