"The poor, by thinking unceasingly of money, reach the point of losing the spiritual advantages of non-possession, thereby sinking as low as the rich."

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“Fortunate those who, born before science, were privileged to die of their first disease!”

“Losing love is so rich a philosophical ordeal that it makes a hairdresser into a rival of Socrates.”

“Freedom can be manifested only in the void of beliefs, in the absence of axioms, and only where the laws have no more authority than a hypothesis.”

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“The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live — moreover, the only one.”

“The more one is obsessed with God, the less one is innocent. Nobody bothered about him in paradise. The fall brought about this divine torture. It's not possible to be conscious of divinity without guilt. Thus God is rarely to be found in an innocent soul.”

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"Inflation may be defined as any increase in the economy's supply of money not consisting of an increase in the stock of the money metal."

— Murray Rothbard

Literature1926–1995

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"Five souls are the most dignified in creation: a scholar who is not self-indulgent , a Sufi jurisprudent, a humble rich person, a thankful poor one, and a noble who follows the Sunnah."

— Sufyan al-Thawri

Religion716–778

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"Lampard......Drogba wanting it through the middle....Brilliant pass....Brilliant, Brilliant, Brilliant. Sheer quality, the delivery from Lampard. Drogba's rich vain in goal scoring form continues."

— Jonathan Pearce

Literature1957

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"Whosoever is miserly with the gift of his knowledge deserves more blame than whosoever is miserly with his money, because the man miserly with his money fears exhausting what he has, but the one miser…"

— Imam Ibn Hazm (R.A.)

Philosophy994–1064

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