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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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This society cannot go forward, the way we have been going forward, where the gap between the rich a...

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Of course the rich and famous tend to have more going on in their lives than ordinary people, but th...

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'A Christmas Carol' is an extravagantly symbolic thing - as rich in symbols as Christmas pudding is ...

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I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a ...

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Good economic theory must give the people the chance to use their talents to build their own lives. ...

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The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.

The government belongs to the poor people of the country. We are custodian of people's hope. For who...

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Nature never said to me: Do not be poor still less did she say: Be rich her cry to me was always: Be...

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None of my characters are rich or famous, and the situations they find themselves in could happen to...

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The country that consistently ranks among the highest in educational achievement is Finland. A rich ...

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Governments are not representative. They have their own power, serving segments of the population th...

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I tell you, say the rich,the poor are naughtbut dirty windwelling in air-shaftsover the cindersand d...

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In Europe the rich are refined enough to act as if they're not wealthy. That is how civilized people...

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No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

So the swallow flew over the great city, and saw the rich making merry in their beautiful houses, wh...

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Oscar WildeThe Happy Prince and Other Tales

The good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The ...

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Crew up, Nailer!" Lucky Girl shouted. "You think I'm going to pull your ass up here like a damn swan...

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This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one whic...

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Rich and famous is not bad, but poor and famous sucks.

I said I didn't think it would be a collectivist state so much as a wilderness in which most people ...

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Paul TherouxThe Kingdom by the Sea

I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness.

Don't be taken in when they pat you paternally on the shoulder and say that there's no inequality wo...

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Peter WeissThe Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade

Money-makers are tiresome company, as they have no standard but cash value.

The Pope loves everyone, rich and poor alike, but the Pope has the duty, in Christ's name, to remind...

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We always say Jordan is not rich in natural resources - we don't have oil or gas like some of our ne...

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How in hell did those bombers get up there every single second of our lives! Why doesn't someone wan...

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When my book 'Rich Dad's Prophecy' was released in 2002, most financial newspapers and magazines tra...

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My rich dad believed we should all learn to take care of ourselves.

Give ordinary folk the chance to buy the same things as rich people.

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

I thought we were celebrating being richer and cleverer than everyone else!

To us — richer and cleverer than everyone else!

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Scott LynchThe Lies of Locke Lamora

Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.

I love money. I love everything about it. I bought some pretty good stuff. Got me a $300 pair of soc...

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We were made to get along, to be together, andit’s a truth that’s medically attested... Love and dan...

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Steven HeightonEvery Lost Country

It is the privilege of the richTo waste the time of the poorTo water with tears in secretA tree that...

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If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they w...

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I'd like to be rich. I'd like a lot of money to put into my physicals and to buy food for all my fri...

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I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man I want a man without money rather than money w...

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Or can it be thought that they who heap up an useless mass of wealth, not for any use that it is to ...

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