"The ungovernable passion for wealth. [Lat., Opum furiata cupido.]"

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Ovid

#Passion Quotes #Wealth Quotes

“The world is run by C students”
“We're just learning that a lot of planets are small planets, and we didn't know that before, fact is, in planetary science, objects such as Pluto and the other dwarf planets in the Kuiper Belt are considered planets and called planets in everyday discourse in scientific meetings.”
“Names have power. In certain cultures, just speaking a man's name gives you mastery over him.”
“If you know how to shoot, and are quite ready to shoot, the chances are that you won't have to shoot.”
“Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress.”

Source : Thorstein Veblen (1994). “Absentee Ownership: Business Enterprise in Recent Times : the Case of America”, p.38, Transaction Publishers
“To me, a mark of maturity is realizing that nobody runs the world. Fat cat politicians and secret conspiracies don't control our lives. In reality, the world is much more complex than that.”

Source : Source: www.ericspitznagel.com
“The humble soul is like the violet, which grows low, hangs the head downward, and hides itself with its own leaves.”
“Since, therefore, no man is born without faults, and he is esteemed the best whose errors are the least, let the wise man consider everything human as connected with himself; for in worldly affairs there is no perfect happiness under heaven.”

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