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George Stillman Hillard

"Wealth brings noble opportunities, and competence is a proper object of pursuit; but wealth, and even competence, may be bought at too high a price. Wealth itself has no moral attribute. It is not money, but the love of money, which is the root of all evil. It is the relation between wealth and the mind and the character of its possessor which is the essential thing."

Source : George Stillman HILLARD (1854). “The Dangers and Duties of the Mercantile Profession. An Address Delivered Before the Mercantile Library Association, Etc”, p.31

George Stillman Hillard

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“I think that it's really nice to learn that makeup is different for every person. Everyone has a different feature on their face that they like to show off.”
“The more worrying feature of the new global corporate structures is their capacity to devastate national labour markets by transferring their operations to cheaper locations overseas.”
“I think there's an instinct to make grotesque horror films that are purely carnal, like the 'Saw' movies.”
“The significance of God, cause, number, substance or soul consists, as James asserts, in nothing but the tendency of the given concept to make us act or think. If the world should reach a point at which it ceases to care not only about such metaphysical entities but also about murders perpetrated behind closed frontiers or simply in the dark, one would have to conclude that the concepts of such murders have no meaning, that they represent no 'distinct ideas' or truths, since they do not make any 'sensible difference to anybody.”
“I should let people in. If they leave, they leave. If I break, I break. It happens to everyone. Right?”
“It was a storm in a tea cup, but in politics we sail in paper boats.”
“Because we call ourselves Christians, our actions need to reflect Christ,”
“If a single one of these gentlemen is correct, if a believer of any type is right, the essential truth for man, the real drama of life, in comparison with which the secular story of the race, is a puppet-show and the unfolding of the universe is a triviality, is the dialogue of the immortal soul and the eternal God. Yet it seems that there is nothing in the world so hard to discover as this. The theory refutes itself.”

Source : "The Psychology of Religion". Book by Joseph McCabe, 1927.

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