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Consistent with social learning theory, individuals tend to carry beliefs about money and money skills learned in childhood into their adult lives…” This week, I’m reading selected quotes from Money Beliefs and Financial Behaviors by Bradley Klontz, Sonya Britt, and Jennifer Mentzer, published in 2011. Reflection Question: Reflection on Quote: An experienced campaign voluntee...

Fancy is fruitful and promises fair, but, like the dog in the fable, we catch at a shadow, and when we find the disappointment, we are vexed, not with ourselves, who are really the impostors, but with the poor, innocent thing or person of whom we have formed such strange ideas…” This week, I am reading from Abigail Adams’ letter to Hannah Lincoln, written in 1761. Reflection ...

The leadership of individuals or groups who can back their beliefs financially is particularly essential in the field of cultural amenities, in the fine arts, in education and research, in the preservation of natural beauty and historic treasures, and, above all, in the propagation of new ideas in politics, morals, and religion.” This week, I’m reflecting on this quote by Fri...