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  • What good is my parents' wealth and education and upbringing if I'm not contributing to the world? -- Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
  • Christianity, democracy, science, education, wealth, and the cumulative inheritance of a thousand years, have not preserved us from the vain repetition of history. -- Ralph Adams Cram
  • Of the five most important things in life, health is first, education or knowledge is second, and wealth is third. I forget the other two. -- Chuck Berry
  • The aristocracy in the future is not one of wealth or university education, but the aristocracy of the men who have done something for themselves and their fellow men. -- Charles M. Schwab
  • The difference between rich and poor is becoming more extreme, and as income inequality widens the wealth gap in major nations, education, health and social mobility are all threatened. -- Helene D. Gayle
  • No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure. -- Emma Goldman
  • In the end, all new schools, public or private, snobby or not, add value to the education market, making it bigger and more efficient, in the same way that Zuckerberg added wealth to the economy even for non-Facebook fans. -- Amity Shlaes
  • People naturally long for a bit of the wealth that is whorling all around them, and if the work and education available to them won't get them closer to the comforts that they see others enjoying, the temptation to take shortcuts can be fierce. -- Katherine Boo
  • Social services, not wealth per se, seem to be the key to lower birth rates. The Chinese, although among the poorest peoples of the world, have brought their fertility rate down to 2.4, partly by social coercion, but mostly by broadly available education, health care and family planning. -- Donella Meadows
  • It turns out that advancing equal opportunity and economic empowerment is both morally right and good economics, because discrimination, poverty and ignorance restrict growth, while investments in education, infrastructure and scientific and technological research increase it, creating more good jobs and new wealth for all of us. -- William J. Clinton
  • You cannot blame the mismanagement of the economy or the fact that we have not invested adequately in education in order to give our people the knowledge, the skills and the technology that they need in order to be able to use the resources that Africa has to gain wealth. -- Wangari Maathai
  • A good education is a stepping-stone to wealth. -- Helen Keller
  • No wealth like education and no poverty like ignorance -- Ali ibn Abi Talib
  • Nature makes all the noblemen; wealth, education, or pedigree never made one yet. -- Josh Billings
  • Democracy, material wealth, and universal education are the soil upon which modernism exists. -- Ai Weiwei
  • The future of a country doesn't depend on its wealth but on its education. -- Debasish Mridha
  • Equality of talents, of education, or of wealth can not be produced by human institutions. -- Andrew Jackson
  • A classical education enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving. -- Russell Green
  • Some people succeed not because they have wealth and education, but because they have firm focus. -- Jorge P. Guerrero
  • Devotion is the realization that wealth, education and power are God given gifts and not the endowments of fate. -- Pandurang Shastri Athavale
  • The main emotion of the adult American who has had all the advantages of wealth, education, and culture is disappointment. -- John Cheever
  • The purpose of education is to save young people from the paralyzing effects of wealth and poverty. (more or less verbatim quote) -- Kurt Hahn
  • Good character is more important than wealth, good looks, popularity and even education. These things do not guarantee happiness and often they become obstacles to developing good character. -- Michael Josephson
  • Pyramid-building, earthquakes, even wars may serve to increase wealth, if the education of our statesmen on the principles of the classical economics stands in the way of anything better. -- John Maynard Keynes
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