Human goals are limited, and the same being to amass wealth with whatever fair or foul means he may have to employ.

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If the pair are found guilty of abusing power to amass wealth on Saturday, they are expected to be sentenced to between five and 10 years in prison.

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There is quite simply no way short of theft that one can amass wealth without saving first, so the tautological reality that says the rich tend to save explains to the mildly sentient in our midst how to grow wealthy in the first place.

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For those who are well-connected former Communist Party or KGB officials, regional bosses, factory or mine directors or simply criminals it has become possible to amass great wealth through such corrupt practices.

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For those who are well-connected former Communist Party or KGB officials, regional bosses, factory or mine directors -- or simply criminals -- it has become possible to amass great wealth through such corrupt practices.

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Legalized discrimination where blacks were prevented, often through violence, from owning property, or loans were not granted to African-American business owners, or black homeowners could not access FHA mortgages, or blacks were excluded from unions or the police force or the fire department meant that black families could not amass any meaningful wealth to bequeath to future generations.

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Media characterizations of traders frequently focus on the great wealth that some amass.

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While I can't exactly tell you how the movie "Prometheus" ends, I can confidently predict an unhappy real world ending if companies like Facebook, Google and Apple continue to amass such unnatural power and wealth.

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