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— Mohammed Reza Pahlavi"My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort."
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The interesting thing is, while we die of diseases of affluence from eating all these fatty meats, our poor brethren in the developing world die of diseases of poverty, because the land is not used now to grow food grain for their families.
— Jeremy Rifkin
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No man has a right to be idle. Where is it that in such a world as this, that health, and leisure, and affluence may not find some ignorance to instruct, some wrong to redress, some want to supply, some misery to alleviate?
— William Wilberforce
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