Prosperity
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What made traditional economies so radically different
and so very fundamentally dangerous to Western
economies were the traditional principles of prosperity
of Creation versus scarcity of resources, of sharing
and distribution versus accumulation and greed,
of kinship usage rights versus individual exclusive
ownership rights, and of sustainability versus
growth.
-- Rebecca Adamson
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“When
you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love,
prosperity, happiness... all the good things.”
-- Maya Angelou
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...let us remember the large numbers of citizens
who, day in and day out, through acts of volunteerism
large and small, bring hope to so many of the
world's disadvantaged. Let us ensure that this
wonderful resource, available in abundance to
every nation, is recognized and supported as it
works towards a more prosperous and peaceful world.
-- Kofi Annan
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future of peace and prosperity that we seek for
all the world's peoples needs a foundation of
tolerance, security, equality and justice. That
foundation is the family. It is only by protecting
families, from famine as well as from fragmentation,
that they can prosper and contribute to the family
of nations that is the United Nations.
-– Kofi Annan
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Education
is an ornament in prosperity and refuge in adversity.
-- Aristotle
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The
United States of America will be a more sustainable
society when we eliminate wasteful defense spending
and instead invest in the foundations of a strong
economy and a prosperous and productive future,
by enhancing areas such as education, healthcare
and green infrastructure. The role of Business
Leaders for Sensible Priorities is to leverage
the credibility of business leaders on fiscal
issues to draw the attention of policy decision
makers, the media and the public to how the federal
budget is currently allocated and help to create
a climate where changed budget priorities can
become a reality.
-- Mission Statement of Business Leaders for Sensible
Priorities
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Friendship
makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity
by dividing and sharing it."
-- Cicero (44 B.C.)
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“We
should, all of us, be filled with gratitude and
humility for our present progress and prosperity.
We should be filled with awe and joy at what lies
over the horizon. And we should be filled with
absolute determination to make the most of it.”
~ Bill Clinton
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"When
we protect the places where the processes of life
can flourish, we strengthen not only the future
of medicine, agriculture and industry, but also
the essential conditions for peace and prosperity."
~ Harrison Ford
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"Our
health relies entirely on the vitality of our
fellow species on Earth."
~ Harrison Ford
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Where
do people earn the Per Capita Income? More than
one poor starving soul would like to know. In our
countries, numbers live better than people. How
many people prosper in times of prosperity? How
many people find their lives developed by development?
-- Eduardo Galeano
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Our
society is only as healthy as our most vulnerable
citizens. It is unconscionable that the weakest
links in our country are our hungry children.
No other Western industrialized nation has widespread
hunger within its borders. We really must put
an end to hunger in the United States if we are
to keep our prosperity and protect the future.
-- Linda Gray
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"The future belongs to those who understand
that doing more with less is compassionate, prosperous,
and enduring, and thus more intelligent, even
competitive."
~ Paul Hawken
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"...perhaps
that is what ultimately unites us as a world:
the fact that, no matter how prosperous a nation,
how developed, all share the plight and embarrassment
of having so many suffering children. We are united
by our neglect, our abuse, our absence of love.
Have we forgotten about the children, and thus
forsaken the next generation?"
-- Audrey Hepburn
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When
people, land, and community are as one, all three
members prosper; when they relate not as members
but as competing interests, all three are exploited.
By consulting Nature as the source and measure
of that membership, The Land Institute seeks to
develop an agriculture that will save soil from
being lost or poisoned while promoting a community
life at once prosperous and enduring."
-- Wes Jackson
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Industry,
commerce and security are the surest roads to
the happiness and prosperity of people."
-- Thomas
Jefferson, 1789
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Relationships
are like Rome -- difficult to start out, incredible
during the prosperity of the 'golden age', and
unbearable during the fall. Then, a new kingdom
will come along and the whole process will repeat
itself until you come across a kingdom like Egypt...
that thrives, and continues to flourish. This
kingdom will become your best friend, your soul
mate, and your love.
-- Helen Keller
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Somehow we must transform the dynamics of the
world power struggle from the negative nuclear
arms race which no one can win to a positive contest
to harness man's creative genius for the purpose
of making peace and prosperity a reality for all
of the nations of the world.
--
Martin Luther
King, Jr
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We
have an opportunity to focus global attention on
what should be obvious: every mother, and every
child, counts. They count because we value every
human life. The evidence is clear that healthy mothers
and children are the bedrock of healthy and prosperous
communities and nations.
~ Dr. LEE
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The
value of our shared reward will and must be measured
by the joyful peace which will triumph, because
the common humanity that bonds both black and white
into one human race, will have said to each one
of us that we shall all live like the children of
paradise. Thus shall we live, because we will have
created a society which recognizes that all people
are born equal, with each entitled in equal measure
to life, liberty, prosperity, human rights and good
governance. Such a society should never allow again
that there should be prisoners of conscience nor
that any person's human rights should be violated.
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Wars
are bred by poverty and oppression. Continued
peace is possible only in a relatively free and
prosperous world.
-- George C.
Marshall
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It
is unconscionable for children in our prosperous country,
or anywhere for that matter, to go without food. I implore
everyone to contact their local and state representatives
to encourage action to end hunger.
-- Kevin Nealon, comedian
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All
the nations and peoples are too closely knit together
today for any one of them to imagine that it can
live apart. Peace has been said to be indivisible,
so is freedom, so is prosperity now, and so also
is disaster in this one world that can no longer
be split into isolated fragments."
-- Jawaharlal Nehru
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"I
would like to be known as a person who is concerned
about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity
for all people."
-- Rosa Parks
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To
waste, to destroy our natural resources, to
skin and exhaust the land instead of using it
so as to increase its usefulness, will result
in undermining in the days of our children the
very prosperity which we ought by right to hand
down to them amplified and developed.
~ Theodore
Roosevelt
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The
only way in which a nation can make itself wealthy
and prosperous is by good housekeeping: that is,
by providing for its wants in the order of their
importance, and allowing no money to be wasted
on whims and luxuries until necessities have been
thoroughly served.
-- George Bernard
Shaw
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It
is not great wealth in a few individuals that
proves a country is prosperous, but great general
wealth evenly distributed among the people. .
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-- Victoria Woodhull
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