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It doesn't matter who you are or where you come from or what you look like or who you love. It doesn...

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Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other'...

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Content makes poor men rich discontent makes rich men poor.

When the poor give to the rich, the devil laughs.

In order to deal with all the medical cost demands and other challenges in the U.S., as we look to r...

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There aren't many downsides to being rich, other than paying taxes and having relatives asking for m...

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I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy.

The patience and forbearance of the poor are among the strongest bulwarks of the rich.

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C. L. R. JamesThe Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution

Man with his new powers became rich like Midas but all that he touched had gone dead and cold.

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C. S. LewisEnglish Literature in the Sixteenth Century excluding Drama

It was a rich place: as rich as plumcake.

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C. S. LewisThe Magician's Nephew

We learned many years ago that the rich may have money, but the poor have time.

History will judge societies and governments — and their institutions — not by how big they are or h...

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My family got all over me because they said Bush is only for the rich people. Then I reminded them, ...

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Never bring a lot of money to where a poor man lives. He can only lose what little he has. On the ot...

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I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowe...

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The Artist," an ancient sage had once said, "is always sitting on the doorsteps of the rich.

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Charles BukowskiThe Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over the Hills

There are many pleasant fictions of the law in constant operation, but there is not one so pleasant ...

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The peasant must always be helped technically, economically, morally and culturally. The guerrilla f...

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There are many different ways to be poor in the world but increasingly there seems to be one single ...

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Money gives you permission to just walk away from everything that isn't pretty and perfect. You can'...

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My mom would spy by satellite, turning down the air conditioning, colder and colder, with a tapping ...

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My friends don't think they're rich, because they know someone who's richer.

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working

In order to honor God with your wealth, you first have to admit that you are rich. Most people won't...

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working

Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions...

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The basic principle of structural analysis, I was explaining, is that the terms of a symbolic system...

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David GraeberThe Utopia of Rules: On Technology

I can do whatever I want - I'm rich, I'm famous, and I'm bigger than you.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'

You know the funny thing, I don't get along with rich people. I get along with the middle class and ...

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People who advocate simplicity have money in the bank; the money came first, not the simplicity.

Rappers aren't the really rich ones. We all have nice houses with studios and cars, but you need a p...

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Don't you ever mind," she asked suddenly, "not being rich enough to buy all the books you want?

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Edith WhartonThe House of Mirth

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

The rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men.

When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner o...

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It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich ...

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When you have two people who love each other, are happy and gay and really good work is being done b...

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When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.

Not for the first time I find our lives are a shadow, and I am not afraid to say that people who thi...

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Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.

Then she added in a sort of childish delight: 'We'll be poor, won't we? Like people in books. And I'...

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My mother always says people should be able to take care of themselves, even if they're rich and imp...

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The rich can afford to be progressive. Poor people have reason to be afraid of the future.

Never underestimate the power of being popular in pop culture. You have to be able to do something. ...

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Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the ...

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Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the ...

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Conservatives say if you don't give the rich more money, they will lose their incentive to invest. A...

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He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be hands...

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It is a hard thing for a rich man to grow poor; but it is an awful thing for him to grow dishonest, ...

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George MacDonaldAt the Back of the North Wind

The mass of the rich and the poor are differentiated by their incomes and nothing else,and the avera...

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The educated man pictures a horde of submen, wanting only a day's liberty to loot his house, burn hi...

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George OrwellDown and Out in Paris and London

Fear of the mob is a superstitious fear. It is based on the idea that there is some mysterious, fund...

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George OrwellDown and Out in Paris and London

Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations...

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He mocks the people who proposes that the government shall protect the rich and that they in turn wi...

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America is the one rich country with the biggest slums, the least democratic and least developed hea...

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Libertarians know that a free country has nothing to fear from anyone coming in or going out - while...

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In the past, humans hesitated when they took lives, even non-human lives. But society had changed, a...

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I know why most people never get rich. They put the money ahead of the job. If you just think of the...

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The few own the many because they possess the means of livelihood of all ... The country is governed...

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Helen KellerRebel Lives: Helen Keller

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.

In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

The only rich person is a person who is rich in spirit. I have no money deposit. I have only beauty ...

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[A man], who is in prosperity, while he sees that others have to contend with great wretchedness and...

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Immanuel KantFundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals

If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.

The American people are sheep. They're comfortable, rich, working. It's like the Romans, they're hap...

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Parallel parking is desirable for two reasons: parked cars create a physical barrier and psychologic...

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In much of the rest of the world, rich people live in gated communities and drink bottled water. Tha...

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The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poo...

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As kids we didn't complain about being poor; we talked about how rich we were going to be and made m...

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You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich pers...

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Being wealthy isn't just a question of having lots of money. It's a question of what we want. Wealth...

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When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.

There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The fi...

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For now I'm just enjoying being a mom. I don't want to be more famous and more rich. I want to be a ...

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I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see ...

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We ought not to ask why the human mind troubles to fathom the secrets of the universe. The diversity...

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When you get to be as old and as rich as I am, it’s hard to meet people.

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John CheeverThe Stories of John Cheever

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are

He stared to sea. "I gave up all ideas of practicing medicine. In spite of what I have just said abo...

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One of the Great Rules of Economics According to John GreenIf you are rich, you have to be an idiot ...

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Big, ugly homes for big, ugly people,' I told Margo as we pulled into Casavilla.'No shit. If I ever ...

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We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because th...

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Why, Tom - us people will go on livin' when all them people is gone. Why, Tom, we're the people that...

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No family gets rich from earning the minimum wage. In fact, the current minimum wage does not even l...

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Upon the whole, Chymistry is as yet but an opening science, closely connected with the useful and or...

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Today's youth are told to get rich or die trying and they really shouldn't take that attitude forwar...

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Never use the word “cheap”. Today everybody can look chic in inexpensive clothes (the rich buy them ...

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You have to be objective about money to use it fairly. It doesn't make you any better or any more us...

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A black hole really is an object with very rich structure, just like Earth has a rich structure of m...

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My parents know I was outgoing as a child, and whenever people came over, I'd automatically do impre...

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MAMA: You must not dislike people ’cause they well off, honey.BENEATHA: Why not? It makes just as mu...

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Death after all is only a matter of a few hours, a few minutes, but a pension is like poverty, it la...

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I hadn't found out yet that mankind consists of two very different races, the rich and the poor. It ...

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Louis-Ferdinand CélineJourney to the End of the Night

I don't have to worry about Madame Ouche! she'll still be robbing me blind when she's dead!...having...

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Mother Atkinson thought that every one should have a trade, or something to make a living out of , f...

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This love of money is the curse of American, and for the sake of it men will sell honor and honesty,...

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They couldn't hurt Gansey. Nothing could hurt him; people who said money couldn't buy everything had...

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My dad was a bartender. My mom was a cashier, a maid and a stock clerk at K-Mart. They never made it...

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Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant sou...

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