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The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the wo

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers. – William James

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The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioning our characters in the wrong way. – William James

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Hell
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William James
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From a pragmatic point of view, the difference between living against a background of foreigness (an indifferent Universe) and one of intimacy (a benevolent Universe) means the difference between a general habit of wariness and one of trust. – William James

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Universe, The
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The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a days time they will have turned it into a Hell. – Jeremy Bentham

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Poverty

The story of his youth was a series of bitternesses, as is the case with almost all distinguished men. Poverty sits by their cradle, and keeps watch over them till they have grown up; and this lean nurse remains their true companion through life. – Heinrich Heine

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Poverty

If the rich could hire other people to die for them, the poor could make a wonderful living. – Yiddish Proverb

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The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time. – Willem de Kooning

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Poverty

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To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter. – Aleister Crowley

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People in the business will stay with you through drugs and alcohol and divorces and insanity and everything else, but you have a failure, pal, and they dont want to know nothing about you! – Don Johnson

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Business can be a source of progressive change. – Jerry Greenfield

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