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• Instead of taxing rich people, governments borrow from them, and pay them interest for the privilege.

  Doug Henwood

  Government, People, Pay

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• Most of the money given by rich people in "charity" is made up of conscience money, "ransom," political bribery, and bids for titles.... One buys moral credit by signing a cheque, which is easier than turning a prayer wheel.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Prayer, People, Political

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• Rich people should consider that they are only trustees for what they posses, and should show their wealth to be more in doing good than merely in having it.

  Joseph Hall

  People, Wealth, Rich

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• Poor people have the blues because they're poor and hungry. Rich people can't sleep at night because they're trying to hold on to their money and everything they have.

  John Lee Hooker

  Sleep, Night, People

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• I'm not defending what Cory Booker said. I'm saying I understand why he has to kiss the asses of the rich people on Wall Street, because there's no other way to keep his city afloat.

  Bill Maher

  Wall, Kissing, Cities

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• Get a millionaire mentor. Most of us were brought up middle class or poor and then hold ourselves to the limits and ideas of that group. I have been studying millionaires to duplicate what they did. Get your own personal millionaire mentor and study them. Most rich people are extremely generous with their knowledge and their resources.

  Grant Cardone

  Class, Ideas, People

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• The issue of world environment has a special kind of urgency... The issue is one of rich peoples and poor peoples, of the growing gap between the two, and of the rich fouling their own nests.

  Gilbert F. White

  Two, Issues, Special

  Gilbert F. White (1986). “Geography, Resources and Environment, Volume 1: Selected Writings of Gilbert F. White”, p.289, University of Chicago Press

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• You don't want the United States to become South America, where you have a super collection of rich people at the tippy-top of society, they are surrounded by barbed wire living in McMansions with security guards, and the rest of the society is suffering, and you've got a broken educational system and a broken government.

  Anthony Scaramucci

  Educational, Government, Security Guards

  ""Life Is Unfair": Talking Inequality With The Hedge Fund Industry's Biggest Cheerleader". Interview with Hamilton Nolan, gawker.com. October 5, 2015.

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• If you want to be rich watch what rich people do everyday and do it. And watch what poor people do and don't do it.

  Les Brown

  People, Everyday, Watches

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• With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches, which in their eye is never so complete as when they appear to possess those decisive marks of opulence which nobody can possess but themselves.

  Adam Smith

  Eye, People, Opulence

  An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations vol. 1, bk. 1, ch. 11 (1776)

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• Budget cuts if you're not rich, tax cuts if you are. Less money for those who don't have any and more to those who do. That's how President Fredo says we're going to get out of the giant deficit hole he's dug. You can't put it any more simply. Rich people richer. Poor people poorer.

  Will Durst

  Cutting, People, President

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• That's what New York is like - you can't have real art happen in an institution because rich people can make the world stop. The stuff on the street is a lot more interesting.

  M.I.A.

  Art, New York, Real

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Dreamers dream dreams and rich people create plans and build bridges to their dreams.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Dream, Bridges, People

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• For rich people, the sky is just an extra, a gift of nature. The poor, on the other hand, can see it as it is, a gift of infinite grace.

  Albert Camus

  Hands, Sky, People

  Albert Camus (1963). “Carnets: 1935-1942”

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• When you have the medical advances you think will they be available to everyone. Will they not just be for the rich world or even just the rich people and the rich world? Will they be for the world at large?

  Bill Gates

  Thinking, People, World

  Interview with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org.

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• So far rich people have been very quiet about the possibility of getting taxes raised on them, but that doesn't mean they won't get mad about it, it just means they don't know about it. Because it takes a while for bad news to reach a rich person. First their accountant has to tell the butler, who has to tell the servant, who wouldn't dare interrupt their game of croquet.

  Craig Ferguson

  Mean, Games, Mad

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• Trickle-down economics - it didn't work. The whole idea was supply-side economics: give rich people a lot of money; they'll spend it, it'll go into the economy. Here's what we found out - rich people, really good at keeping all the money. That's how they got rich. If you want it in the economy, give it to the poor people. You know what they're really good at? Spending all their money.

  Greg Fitzsimmons

  Ideas, People, Giving

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• I'm totally into architecture for all strata of society. High design should not just be for rich people.

  David Adjaye

  People, Design, Architecture

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• So, what people are actually left with to spend is maybe 25 to 30% of their income on goods and services, after paying taxes and after paying the FIRE sector (Finance, Insurance, Real Estate). Whether it's housing insurance or mortgage insurance. So there's an idea of distracting people. Don't think of your condition. Think of how the overall economy is doing. But don't think of the economy as an overall unit. Think of the stock market as the economy. Think of the rich people as the economy. Look at the yachts that are made. Somebody's living a lot better. Couldn't it be you?

  Michael Hudson

  Real, Thinking, People

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• In all the world, rich people are very unpopular.

  Victor Pinchuk

  People, World, Rich

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• You rich people are all the same. You couldn't care less about the other half of the world. They can all starve to death for all you care!

  Sally Wentworth

  People, Half, World

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• I am interested in Scripture and theology. This is an interest that I can assume I would share with a pastor, so that makes me a little bit prone to use that kind of character, perhaps, just at the moment. Then there is also the fact that, having been a church member for many years, I am very aware of how much pastors enrich people's experience, people for whom they are significant. I know that it's a kind of custom of American literature and culture to slang them. I don't think there is any reason why that needs to be persisted in.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Character, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We call that the American dream, but in fact, it's a universal dream of a better life that people have all over the world. It is a reminder that every country in the world has rich people. What makes America special is that we have millions and millions of people that are not rich, that through hard work and perseverance are able to be successful.

  Marco Rubio

  Dream, Country, Perseverance

  Republican Presidential Debate, www.nytimes.com. November 11, 2015.

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• I came to the realization that a strong female is frightening to everybody, because all societies are male-dominated, black societies, poor people, rich people, any racial group, they're all dominated by men. A strong female is going to threaten everybody across the board...

  Madonna Ciccone

  Strong, Men, People

  Spin Magazine, January 1996.

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• Rich people are excellent receivers. Poor people are poor receivers.

  T. Harv Eker

  People, Rich, Poor

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