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Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning. ↗

— John Ruskin

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By his own efforts man could never gain the true and desired riches. ↗

— Joseph Franklin Rutherford

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False riches, consisting of money, houses and lands, acquired by selfish means at cost to others and thereafter used selfishly, are almost always used for the oppression of other persons. ↗

— Joseph Franklin Rutherford

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If you are kept in ignorance of the true way and permit yourself to rely upon and be guided by the opinion of imperfect man, you can never gain the riches that will bring you peace and lasting happiness. ↗

— Joseph Franklin Rutherford

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There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there. ↗

— Colonel Sanders

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The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

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Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

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If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

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Science as an intellectual exercise enriches our culture, and is in itself ennobling. ↗

— Henry Taube

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People are ready to say, 'Yes, we are ready for single-payer health insurance.' We are the only industrialized country in the world that does not have national health insurance. We are the richest in wealth and the poorest in health of all the industrial nations. ↗

— Studs Terkel

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