#prosperity

The key point to understand is that prosperity is an internal experience, not an external state, and it is an experience that is not tied to having a certain amount of money. ↗

— Shakti Gawain

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While no amount of financial wealth can guarantee an experience of prosperity, it is possible to experience prosperity at almost any level of income, except when we are unable to meet our basic physical needs. ↗

— Shakti Gawain

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Higher income taxes are a razor guillotine poised to descend on the bare neck of prosperity. ↗

— Thomas H. Kean

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Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age. ↗

— Lactantius

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Government spending is taxation. When you look at this, I've never heard of a poor person spending himself into prosperity; let alone I've never heard of a poor person taxing himself into prosperity. ↗

— Arthur Laffer

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You know, without China there is no Wal-Mart and without Wal-Mart there is no middle class and lower class prosperity in the United States. ↗

— Arthur Laffer

#class #know #lower #lower class #middle

War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings. ↗

— Ludwig von Mises

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Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#even #exceptional #happiness #history #human

From another point of view, a new situation now seems to be arising in which Japan's prosperity is going to be incorporated into the expanding potential power of both production and consumption in Asia at large. ↗

— Kenzaburo Oe

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Unless we practice conservation, those who come after us will have to pay the price of misery, degradation, and failure for the progress and prosperity of our day. ↗

— Gifford Pinchot

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