#prosper

What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman's excellence? ↗

— Sophocles

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I believe in an America in which the fruits of productivity and prosperity are shared by all, by workers as well as owners, by those at the bottom as well as those at the top; an America in which the sacrifices required by national security are shared by all, by profiteers in the back offices as well as volunteers on the front lines. ↗

— Theodore C. Sorensen

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U.S. economic prosperity is closely tied to the availability of a reliable and affordable supply of energy. ↗

— Cliff Stearns

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Moreover, there is an unearned increment on capital and on labor, due to the presence, around the capitalist and the laborer, of a great, industrious, and prosperous society. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

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The United States basically accepted protection abroad as the price of post-war recovery. Now, that these countries have caught up to our level of prosperity, it is time for them to catch up to our level of openness. ↗

— Lawrence Summers

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We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of peace and prosperity. ↗

— Oliver Tambo

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Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after her image, but far more beautiful and prosperous. ↗

— Jeremy Taylor

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Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth. ↗

— Jeremy Taylor

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We can no longer prosper by increasing human productivity. The more we try to do, the more poverty we will create. ↗

— Paul Hawken

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Men's fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever. ↗

— Herodotus

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