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While money and credit are associated with wealth, they aren’t the same thing as wealth. Because money and credit can buy wealth (i.e., goods and services), the amount of money and credit you have and the amount of wealth you have look pretty much the same. But you cannot create more wealth simply by creating more money and credit. To create more wealth, you have to be more productive.
Principles for Dealing With the Changing World Order
Ray Dalio
You cannot locate the key words without making an effort to understand the passage in which they occur.
How to Read a Book
Mortimer J. Adler
But he who is
unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient
for himself, must be either a beast or a god: he is no part of a state.
A social instinct is implanted in all men by nature, and yet he who first
founded the state was the greatest of benefactors. For man, when perfected,
is the best of animals, but, when separated from law and justice, he is
the worst of all;
Politics | Book 1
Aristotle
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