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God gave me my money. I believe the power to make money is a gift from God... I believe it is my duty to make money and still more money and to use the money I make for the good of my fellow man according to the dictates of my conscience.

John D. Rockefeller

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Rockefeller, John Davison. Interviewed by William Hoster. c. 1905.

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Rockefeller, John Davison. Quoted in The Rockefellers: An American dynasty, written by Peter Collier and David Horowitz. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1976, ch. 3.

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Cure yourself of the condition of bothering about how you look to other people. Concern yourself only with how you appear to God, with the idea that God has of you.

Miguel de Unamuno

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De Unamuno, Miguel. "El Sepulcro de Don Quijote [The Sepulcher of Don Quixote]." Vida de Don Quijote Y Sancho [The Life of Don Quixote and Sancho]. Madrid: Renacimiento, 1914, foreward.

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Modern life is both complex and intense, and the tremendous changes wrought by the extraordinary industrial development of the last half century are felt in every fiber of our social and political being.

Theodore Roosevelt

Second Inaugural Address of Theodore Roosevelt

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Roosevelt, Theodore. "Second Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1905, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.

George Bernard Shaw

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Shaw, George Bernard. Major Barbara. 28 Nov. 1905, Court Theatre, London, England, UK, preface.

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Shaw, George Bernard. Major Barbara. Man and Superman, John Bull's Other Island, and Major Barbara. Oxford University Press, 2021, preface.

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Like all young men, you greatly exaggerate the difference between one young woman and another.

George Bernard Shaw

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Shaw, George Bernard. Major Barbara. 28 Nov. 1905, Court Theatre, London, England, UK, act 3.

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Shaw, George Bernard. Major Barbara. Man and Superman, John Bull's Other Island, and Major Barbara. Oxford University Press, 2021, act 3.

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