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“Water and petrol both come from the earth, and though they seem to be alike and even the same, they are in nature and purpose exact opposites, for the one extinguishes fire and the other adds fuel to it. So also the world and its treasures, the heart and its thirst for God are alike His creation. Now the result of the attempt to satisfy the heart with the wealth and pride and honours of this world is the same as if one tried to put out a fire with petrol, for the heart can only find ease and satisfaction in Him who created both it and the longing desire of which it is conscious.”

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

Important Culture Wealth Teach Opposites

Author:Orrin Woodward

“We want Realism's wealth of experience and Symbolism's depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites.”

Want Art Two Feelings Problem Wealth Balance Art Is Opposites Depth Realism Symbolism Two Opposites

Book:This Business of Living

Source: This Business of Living

“Upon laying a weight in one of the scales, inscribed eternity, though I threw in that of time, prosperity, affliction, wealth, and poverty, which seemed very ponderous, they were not able to stir the opposite balance.”

Able Wealth Poverty Balance Opposites Weight Eternity Prosperity Scales Affliction Wealth And Poverty

Author:Joseph Addison

“The art of wealth-getting which consists in household management, on the one hand, has a limit; the unlimited acquisition of wealth is not its business. And therefore, in one point of view, all riches must have a limit; nevertheless, as a matter of fact, we find the opposite to be the case; for all getters of wealth increase their hard coin without limit.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)

“New Zealand is not used to wealth. In America wealth is kind of a thing of pride. Here it's the opposite. The more you've got, the bigger the target you are.”

Kind America Used Wealth Pride Fame Opposites Bigger Target New Zealand

Author:Peter Jackson

“Collectivists would have you believe that individualism is merely another word for selfishness, because individualists oppose welfare and other forms of coercive redistribution of wealth, but just the opposite is true. Individualists advocate true charity, which is the voluntary giving of their own money, while collectivists advocate the coercive giving of other people's money; which, of course, is why it is so popular.”

People Giving Believe Form Courses Wealth Opposites Charity Selfishness Welfare Individualism Redistribution Of Wealth

Author:G. Edward Griffin

“As a writer, I've often said that, among the other things that we need to reclaim, other than the obscene wealth of billionaires, is language. Language has been deployed to mean the exact opposite of what it really means when they talk about democracy or freedom.”

Needs Mean Has Beens Said Language Wealth Democracy Opposites Really Mean Billionaire Obscene

Author:Arundhati Roy

“Given the total income and wealth available in the world today, we could easily overcome poverty, which would require raising the share of the bottom half from three to roughly five percent. Unfortunately, the trend is going in the opposite direction.”

World Today Three Given Wealth Half Poverty Five Share Percent Opposites Overcoming Bottom Available Income Trends World Today

Author:Thomas Pogge

“Athletes often start life at the opposite end of the wealth and prestige spectrum, but as soon as they exhibit an unusual talent for swinging a bat or sinking a free-throw they may find that the rules have been suspended for them. They are waved through school and into the pros, and incidents of bad behavior are overlooked or covered up.”

May Has Beens Ends School Wealth Talent Behavior Opposites Athlete Covered Unusual Bats Incidents Spectrum Exhibits Sinking Prestige Overlooked Suspended Bad Behavior Free Throw Covered Up

Author:Jeffrey Kluger

“Everybody in politics claims to want to get everybody out of poverty. What's the opposite? Wealth. And what is often criticized by the left? Wealth.”

Want Left Wealth Poverty Opposites Claims

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“The opposite of poverty is not wealth. I don't believe that. I actually think, in too many places, the opposite of poverty is justice.”

Wealth Justice Poverty Opposites

Author:Bryan Stevenson

“As the earth spins through space, a view from above the North Pole would encompass most of the wealth of the world - most of its food, productive machines, doctors, engineers and teachers. A view from the opposite pole would encompass most of the world's poor.”

World Earth Wealth Space Poor Views Teacher Doctors Machines Opposites Productive Engineers North Pole

Author:Barry Commoner