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thoughts on
Abundance

“In hIs
heydAy,
howArd
hughes
“I’ve got all dIdn’T hAve
the money “You never find As good A
I’ll ever need— people laboring TelevIsIon
just so long to convince you As you do.”
as I die by that you may —kevin D. WilliamSon
four o’clock.” live very happily
upon a plentiful
—Henny youngman
fortune.”
—Samuel JoHnSon
“If we command our wealth,
we shall be rIch and free.”
—eDmunD Burke
“I was so good
at beIng a man,
wIth such
“Like
plenItude and
the rain,
sImplIcIty, that
I thought I was
everything
somethIng of a
comes in
superman.”
bucketsfuL—
“Right now, for —alBert camuS
or not
the first time ever, “The thankful
a passionate
at aLL.” receiver bears a
—Henry miller and committed plentiful harvest.”
individual has access —William Blake
to the technology,
minds and capital
required to take on
“it was a rich place.
any challenge.”
as rich as plumcake.”
—c.S. leWiS —Peter H. DiamanDiS
“god doesn’t measure his EvErEtt CollECtion/nEwsCom; UnivErsal History arCHivE/GEtty imaGEs; Jin lEE/BloomBErG; alBin loHr-JonEs/Polaris/nEwsCom; Jim DamaskE/ZUma PrEss/nEwsCom; CECil BEaton/ConDE
bounty, but oh, how we do!” nast/GEtty imaGEs; ann ronan PiCtUrEs/GEtty imaGEs; BEttmann/GEtty imaGEs; kim CarEy; JoHn CHillinGwortH/PiCtUrE Post/GEtty imaGEs; lisZt CollECtion/nEwsCom
—mignon mclaugHlin

“Wealth comes from industry
and the hard experience of FINAL
human toil. To dissipate it in THOUGHT
waste and extravagance is “An abundance of
disloyalty to humanity.” money can bless
—calvin cooliDge as well as curse.
The latter is to be
“you crown the year wIth your bounty, and vigilantly guarded
“my Lord. it is
your carts overflow wIth abundance.” against.”
too much, and
—PSalm 65:11 —B.c. ForBeS
not enough.”
—Jacqueline carey SOURCES: TROPIC OF CANCER, BY HENRY MILLER; ALBERT CAMUS OF EUROPE AND AFRICA, BY CONOR
CRUISE O’BRIEN; BOLD, BY PETER H. DIAMANDIS; LETTERS ON A REGICIDE PEACE, BY EDMUND BURKE;
THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, BY JAMES BOSWELL; THE MAGICIAN’S NEPHEW, BY C.S. LEWIS;
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF CALVIN COOLIDGE; KUSHIEL’S CHOSEN, BY JACQUELINE CAREY.
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