For all the gold and silver stolen and shipped to Spain did not make the Spanish people richer. It gave their kings an edge in the balance of power for a time, a chance to hire more mercenary soldiers for their wars. They ended up losing those wars anyway, and all that was left was a deadly inflation, a starving population, the rich richer, the poor poorer, and a ruined peasant class.
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The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.
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Go far -- too far you cannot, still the farther. The more experience finds you: and go sparing. One meal a week will serve you, and one suit, Through all your travels; for you'll find it certain. The poorer and the baser you appear, The more you look through still.
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Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relative value. A man of financial wealth who values himself by his financial net worth is poorer than a poor man who values himself by his intrinsic self worth.
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The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.
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Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, and the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.
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'Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.'
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Forty thousand children starve to death each day in the Third World. One fifth of the children in the poorer countries die of malnutrition and lack of clean water and basic medical care before their fifth birthday. Two hundred and fifty million children worldwide are going blind through lack of vitamin A in their diet.
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The theatre is the best way of showing the gap between what is said and what is seen to be done, and that is why, ragged and gap-toothed as it is, it has still a far healthier potential than some poorer, abandoned arts.
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Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.
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The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.
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I believe and I say it is true Democratic feeling, that all the measures of the government are directed tot he purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.
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No one ever yet was the poorer in the long run for having once in a lifetime Let out all the length of all the reins.
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Which is the poorer soul, the one who experiences excrutiating grief for but mere moments of true joy? Or is it the one who lives in complete neurality, the one who experiences neither end of the spectrum?
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The fellow who has no money is poor; the fellow who has nothing but money is poorer still.
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The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still.
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