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“The rich man's sons inherits cares; The bank may break, the factory burn, A breath may burst his bubble shares, And soft, white hands could hardly earn A living that would serve his turn.”

Men May Hands Care Turns Wealth White Break Rich Share Son Breaths Factories Bubbles Rich Man

Book:The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

“All gold and silver rather turn to dirt, An 'tis no better reckoned but of these Who worship dirty gods.”

Turns Wealth Worship Gold Dirty Silver Dirt Gold And Silver

Author:William Shakespeare

“The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.”

Character Values Turns Wealth Poor Economy Building Wealthy Character Building

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“Human beings have been smart enough to turn nature to their ends, generate vast wealth for themselves, and double their average life span. But are they smart enough to solve the problems of the 21st century?”

Humans Has Beens Ends Enough Problem Turns Wealth Human Beings Century Smart Average Solve 21st Century Life Span Average Life

Author:Thomas Homer-Dixon

“Unfortunately, once an economy is geared to expansion, the means rapidly turn into an end and "the going becomes the goal." Even more unfortunately, the industries that are favored by such expansion must, to maintain their output, be devoted to goods that are readily consumable either by their nature, or because they are so shoddily fabricated that they must soon be replaced. By fashion and built-in obsolescence the economies of machine production, instead of producing leisure and durable wealth, are duly cancelled out by the mandatory consumption on an even larger scale.”

Mean Ends Turns Goal Wealth Economy Fashion Industry Built Machines Productions Scales Goods Leisure Devoted Consumption Replaced Expansion Output Obsolescence

Book:THE CITY IN HISTORY

Source: THE CITY IN HISTORY

“Since the eighteenth century the immense expansion of the worlds wealth has come about as a result of a correspondingly immense expansion of credit, which in turn has demanded increasingly stupendous suspensions of disbelief.”

World Turns Wealth Results Century Credit Immense Expansion Disbelief Suspension Suspension Of Disbelief

Author:Lewis H. Lapham

“One percent of the nation owns a third of the wealth. The rest of the wealth is distributed in such a way as to turn those in the 99 percent against one another: small property owners against the propertyless, black against white, native-born against foreign-born, intellectuals and professionals against the uneducated and the unskilled. These groups have resented one another and warred against one another with such vehemence and violence as to obscure their common position as sharers of leftovers in a very wealthy country.”

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

“The wealth of any ecosystem is its perennials. The primal herbivore-predator-disturbance-rest dance is literally the breath and pulse of the earth. Grasses recycle oxygen far more efficiently than trees. The turnover is faster. Grass reaches out and turns solar energy into carbon. Tillage hyper-aerates the soil, burning out carbon. But because a plant creates bilateral symmetry at the soil horizon, it sloughs off root mass when the top gets chopped off.”

“Justice waits upon the great, Interest holds the scale, and Riches turns the balance.”

Turns Waiting Interest Wealth Justice Balance Riches Scales

Author:Delarivier Manley

“I'm looking at a tax process that will allow people to keep more of their money because we know what happens when job creators get to keep more of their money than they're - they have the confidence to go out and spend that money to create jobs that in turn create wealth.”

People Knows Happens Jobs Turns Process Wealth Taxes Creator Job Creators

Author:Rick Perry

“The shimmering night does not stay for mortals, not misfortunes, nor wealth, but in a moment it is gone, and to the turn of another comes joy and loss.”

Doe Moments Joy Night Turns Change Wealth Loss Gone Fortune Mortals Misfortunes

Author:Sophocles

“A sort of moral blackmail is exerted from both poles. The underclass, one gathers, should be dulled with charity and welfare provision lest it turn nasty. The upper class must likewise be conciliated by vast handouts, lest it lose the "incentive" to go on generating wealth.”

Should Turns Loses Wealth Moral Class Goes On Charity Welfare Nasty Incentives Provision Upper Class Blackmail Handouts

Book:Prepared for the Worst: Selected Essays and Minority Reports

Source: Prepared for the Worst: Selected Essays and Minority Reports