Yet if creating prosperity were as simple as printing money, no country would be poor.

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What if the road out of misery, to prosperity, is axiomatically simple and all else is simply obfuscation?

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But they tend to discount the major role that simple good fortune and timing played in their prosperity.

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Dewi Sri is the Balinese Hindu goddess of fertility and prosperity, and it is to her that the rice farmers so carefully present offerings in the simple bamboo shrines at the edge of each field, just as we had witnessed earlier.

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