"The rich people are those who create wealth, and you have to treat them well so they continue to give wealth."

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Source : Speech, May 26, 1988.

Augusto Pinochet

#People Quotes #Giving Quotes #Wealth Quotes

“How do our philosophers act? Do they not inscribe their signatures to the very essays they write on the propriety of despising glory.”
“When you are in doubt abstain.”
“What brings us to perfection? An ingrained faith in God, the 'faith that makes real the things for which we hope' (Heb. 11:1), the faith whereby Abel offered to God a better sacrifice than Cain and was commended as righteous (cf. Heb 11:4). It is such faith that fills those assiduous in the search for truth with great aspiration for the exalted gifts of God, and leads them to the spiritual knowledge of created beings; and it pours into their hearts the inexhaustible treasures of the Spirit.”
“People tell me that the countryside must always be stupid and backward, and I get angry, as if it were said that only townspeople had immortal souls, and that it was only in the city that the flame of divinity breathed into the first men had an unobscured glow.”

Source : George William Russell (1913). “Co-operation and Nationality: A Guide for Rural Reformers from this to the Next Generation”
“A train of thought is never false. The falsehood lies deep in the necessities of existence.”
“Love soothes wounds, while hatred and violence deepen them.”
“All great human deeds both consume and transform their doers. Consider an athlete, a scientist, an artist, or an entrepreneur. In service of their goals, they lay down time, energy and many other choices and pleasures; in return, they become most truly themselves. A false destiny may be spotted by the fact that it consumes without transforming, without giving back the enlarged self.”

Source : "Author's Afterword". "Cordelia's Honor". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 1996.
“There is no better test of a man's integrity than his behavior when he is wrong.”

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