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Avarice, the spur of industry. - David Hume

Avarice, the spur of industry. – David Hume

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The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one. – David Hume

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Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it. – David Hume

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Nature
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A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century. – David Hume

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Big mouthfuls often choke. – Italian Proverb

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Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition. He that sinks under the fatigue of getting wealth, lulls his age with the milder business of saving it. – Samuel Johnson

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You show me a capitalist, and Ill show you a bloodsucker. – Malcolm X

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Expectancy is the atmosphere for miracles. – Edwin Louis Cole

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To prefer evil to good is not in human nature and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less. – Plato

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