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Re: IQ and money, was Re: Stephen Gould proves that Africans are not black!
Arthur S. Cagle (ascagle@ix.netcom.com)
19 Jul 1995 00:42:31 GMT
In <17JUL199518544638@rosie.uh.edu> st26h@rosie.uh.edu (JAMES BENTHALL)
writes:
>
>In article <3tpsvs$5gn@inforamp.net>, friedric@inforamp.net (Peter
Friedrichsen) writes...
>>jjp@halcyon.com wrote:
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>>>In article <DAut2I.HDJ@pgh.nauticom.net>,
<wtknight@pgh.nauticom.net> writes:
>>>>
>>>> Jeffrey L Baker (jbaker@gas.uug.arizona.edu) wrote:
>>>>
>>>> > If you are born rich, you stay rich, if you are born poor, you
stay
>>>> > poor.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> > Jeff Baker
>>>>
>>>> This will be great news to Ross Perot, Michael Jackson, and Paul
McCartney!
>>>>
>>>The real saying is: if you think poor, then you are poor, if you
think rich,
>>>then you are rich.
>>
>>I have to say that this whole argument rich stay rich poor stay poor
>>is rediculous. Generaly yes this is true however you can break your
>>humble beginings only if you decide to work yourself to near total
>>exhaustion for a good part of your life just as the aforementioned
>>surely did.
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>I know of a good many people that have"worked themselves to total
exhaustion"
>for all of their lives, and they are STILL POOR!
>
> james
There is an old saying, in my experience containing a lot of fact:
"Shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations," i.e., first
generation makes fortune, second generation runs through the old man's
money, third generation back at starting point.
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