The accumulation of wealth is a process which is of itself morally neutral. True, as Christianity teaches, riches bring temptations. But then so does poverty.
I'd like to believe an accumulation of experience has made me a sort of a grown-up person, so I can have judgment and taste and whatever.
Out of the freedom from worry that God's generosity provides comes an impulse toward simplicity rather than accumulation.
The real key to wealth is the gradual accumulation, it's something Jesus talked about I call the law of use and you couple with the exponential curve.
There was no single moment when I thought, Aha! What a great idea! Rather there was a slow and gradual accumulation of numerous small ideas.
History is either a moral argument with lessons for the here-and-now, or it is merely an accumulation of pointless facts.
Only thru a mucus-free diet can we expect to eliminate the accumulation of waste and obstructions deposited in the body tissues during a lifetime of wrong eating.
Nevertheless, I don't hesitate to say that elections in Germany are decided in the center, not on the fringes and not in the accumulation of minority interests.
The accumulation of capital and misery go hand in hand, concentrated in space.
Health is not sort of like a 6-month project. Health is a lifetime accumulation of behaviors.
I never have known a man of ordinary common-sense who did not urge upon his sons, from earliest childhood, doctrines of economy and the practice of accumulation.
History is not the accumulation of events of every kind which happened in the past. It is the science of human societies.
The imposing edifice of science provides a challenging view of what can be achieved by the accumulation of many small efforts in a steady objective and dedicated search for truth.
Success is not a function of individual talent. It's the steady accumulation of advantages. It's bound up in so many other broader circumstantial, environmental, historical, and cultural factors.
What makes small business develop into big business is not spending, but saving and capital accumulation.
One seemed simply to be here, less an accumulation of moments than a single arrangement continuously gifted from some inaccessible future.
Fear exists in the process of accumulation and belief in something is part of the accumulative process.
Putting is like wisdom - partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience.
Films like 'Velvet Goldmine' are an accumulation of research and references. I create an almost random resource of connections and am constantly distilling that into narrative specifics.
An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.
No individual has sufficient experience, education, native ability and knowledge to ensure the accumulation of a great fortune, without the cooperation of other people.
Anytime you do something out of the ordinary, there will be skeptics. Everyone wants a reason why. That's fine. What's happened with me is just an accumulation of a lot of things.
When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals.
Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.
A nation is not made wealthy by the childish accumulation of shiny metals, but it enriched by the economic prosperity of it's people.
Not evil, but good, has come to the race from the accumulation of wealth by those who have the ability and energy that produce it.
The consequences arising from the continual accumulation of public debts in other countries ought to admonish us to prevent their growth in our own.
In all the talk in the Principles (as opposed to the formal analysis) it is not the saving of rentiers but the energy of entrepreneurs which governs accumulation.
Do not disregard the accumulation of goodness, saying, 'This will come to nothing.' By the gradual falling of raindrops, a jar is filled.
In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation.
All through history, there have always been movements where business was not just about the accumulation of proceeds but also for the public good.
Women, who are a majority of the peoples of the earth, are indispensable to the accumulation of the kind of social capital that is conducive to development, peace, justice and civility.
Science advances, not by the accumulation of new facts, but by the continuous development of new concepts.
This argument has been codified in the twentieth century as meritocracy, in which those on top in the process of capitalist accumulation have merited their position.
One cannot blame an organization that picks up an occasional black sheep, one only takes exception if it retains an accumulation of them.
I can anticipate no greater calamity for the country than the dissolution of the Union. It would be an accumulation of all the evils we complain of, and I am willing to sacrifice everything but honor for its preservation.
What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of gentle, soft, almost invisible acts of compassion.
Avarice has ruined more men than prodigality, and the blindest thoughtlessness of expenditure has not destroyed so many fortunes as the calculating but insatiable lust of accumulation.
We've got the catalog, now we just have to figure it out. It's not going to be one gene. It's going to be an accumulation of changes.
We all come into this world the same: naked, scared, and ignorant. After that grand entrance, the life we end up with is simply an accumulation of the choices we make.
Modern animated movies are the products not of anyone’s individual vision, but rather a scattered accumulation of compromises made out of fear by members of large committees.
I love criminal law. It must be the Dostoyevskian streak in me. I'm fascinated by the accumulation of forces that make people behave in ways that everybody else hates.
Woman is the embodiment of sacrifice and suffering and her advent to public life should, therefore, result in purifying it, in restraining unbridled ambition and accumulation of property.
Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored.
Although wisdom is built on life experiences, the mere accumulation of years guarantees nothing.
No public interest is anything other or nobler than a massed accumulation of private interests.
Facebook can be an accumulation of different intelligences. Ask a question, translated into many languages and somebody, somewhere in the world, will have an answer.
Life's accumulation is more discouraging than life itself, when stirred up.
Knowledge is the accumulation of information whereas intelligence is one's ability to process information to render good decisions.
To make a great future India, the whole secret lies in organization, accumulation of power, co-ordination of wills.
A tax on capital is self-defeating, in that it slows down capital accumulation, investment and economic growth.
The accumulation of numbers always augments in some measure moral corruptions, and the consequences to health of the various vices incident thereto, are well known.
There is a point at which we begin to receive a diminishing return on the accumulation of sacred knowledge unless we use it to at least try to improve the world.
Because of the accumulation of objects, things are never quite the way I want them to be. There has always been a lack of, well, clarity.
Ageing is, simply and clearly, the accumulation of damage in the body. That's all that ageing is.
There would be no accumulation of strength inside
if the choices that you make
did not require disipline and intention.
Charity is unconscious of itself, there is no accumulation first and then distribution. It is like the flower - natural, open, spontaneous.
Do not vie with others in the accumulation of wealth. Vie with them in Ibadaah.
The essence of Keynesianism is its complete failure to conceive the role that saving and capital accumulation play in the improvement of economic conditions.
The foundation stone of wealth accumulation is defense, and this defense should be anchored by budgeting and planning.
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