All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
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More Quotes from Samuel Butler
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It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.
› Franklin Roosevelt
Anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, now that's the real test.
› Robert Fulghum
To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
› Bette Davis
I am more interested in the return of my money than I am with a return on my money.
› Mark Twain
Happiness is a quality of the soul, not a function of one's material circumstances.
› Aristotle
