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• The Philippines is in a strategic position. It is both East and West, right and left, rich and poor. We are neither here nor there.

  Imelda Marcos

  East, Philippines, West

  Katipunan Magazine, February 1982.

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• Unfortunately, in rich-world health, innovation is both your friend and your enemy. Innovation is inventing organ replacement, joint replacement. We're inventing ways of doing new things that cost $300,000 and take people in their 70s and, on average, give them an extra, say, two or three years of life. And then you have to say, given finite resources, should we fire two or three teachers to do this operation?

  Bill Gates

  Teacher, Average, Years

  "Bill Gates: ‘Death is something we really understand extremely well’". Interview with Ezra Klein, www.washingtonpost.com. May 17, 2013.

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• America is my home - I believe in her promise and I will do what I can to secure that promise for future generations of our children. America is great - not because of our military might or our economic strength - but because of the greatness of Americans, and I welcome the opportunity to stand shoulder to shoulder, side by side with all of you to preserve our heritage rich in "liberty and justice for all."

  Alberto Gonzales

  Children, Military, Believe

  Remarks at his installation as Attorney General, www.justice.gov. February 14, 2005.

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• The broad rich acres of our agricultural plains have been long preserved by nature to become her untrammeled gift to a people civilized and free, upon which should rest, in well-distributed ownership, the numerous homes of enlightened, equal, and fraternal citizens... Nor should our vast tracts of so-called desert lands be yielded up to the monopoly of corporations or grasping individuals, as appears to be much the tendency under the existing statute.

  Grover Cleveland

  Home, Land, People

  Grover Cleveland's Fourth Annual Message (December 1888), published in "The writings and speeches of Grover Cleveland" edited by George Frederick Parker, circa 1892.

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• There is a sort of creative purity in an independent film, in the passion of the director, the passion of the crew. They're not getting a whole lot of money, so you know they are not there because they want to get rich. Instead, they are there because they want to make a movie. In the bigger films, I remember when I used to do those, it's just a job for a lot of people, so there is less of an intense energy devoted to the whole project.

  Amy Irving

  Jobs, Passion, Independent

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• I love and revere the rich and proud history of America. And I am determined to take our best traditions into the future. But with all respect, we do not need to build a bridge to the past. We need to build a bridge to the future.

  William J. Clinton

  Past, America, Bridges

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• God only, who made us rich, can make us poor.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Lilies, Poor, Made

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.146

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• In Harlem, for instance, all of the stores are owned by white people, all of the buildings are owned by white people. The black people are just there - paying rent, buying the groceries; but they don't own the stores, clothing stores, food stores, any kind of stores; don't even own the homes that they live in. They are all owned by outsiders, and for these run-down apartment dwellings, the black man in Harlem pays more money than the man down in the rich Park Avenue section.

  Malcolm X

  Running, Home, Men

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• Seville never had a rich chess tradition. Valencia is entirely different, it is enough to say that one of the city squares is named after me.

  Anatoly Karpov

  Squares, Cities, Different

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• I think this has been a class war waged by the rich against the poor, and I think that they won. And I think the poor are fighting back.

  Naomi Klein

  War, Fighting, Thinking

  "Naomi Klein: Wall St. Crisis Should Be for Neoliberalism What Fall of Berlin Wall Was for Communism". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. October 6, 2008.

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• To the lazy man the world appears bereft of all blessings; if poor, he has no friends; if rich, he has no ambition; he aims at nothing, and generally hits his mark.

  James Ellis

  Ambition, Blessing, Men

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• The poor lack money. They lack money because they do not know the secret of productive wealth. They know it is possible to be old, unemployed, uneducated, lazy - even halt, deaf, dumb, and blind-and still be excessively rich. But you have to be in on the secret, and the poor by definition are not.

  Louis O. Kelso

  Wisdom, Dumb, Secret

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• To each, therefore, must be given his own share of goods, and the distribution of created goods, which, as every discerning person knows, is laboring today under the gravest evils due to the huge disparity between the few exceedingly rich and the unnumbered propertyless, must be effectively called back to and brought into conformity with the norms of the common good, that is, social justice.

  Pope Pius XI

  Wisdom, Justice, Evil

  Catholic Church. Pope (1922-1939 : Pius XI), Pope Pius XI (1947). “On reconstructing the social order: (Quadragesimo anno)”

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• The essence of capitalism is expressed in two of its basic features: a) profit maximization and b) market competition. In their abstract formulations none of them was supposed to have anything conspiratorial against the poor. But in real life they turn out to be the "killers" of the poor - by making rich the richer and poor the poorer.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Real, Essence, Two

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• Some of the highest vibratory places one can visit have become very expensive. They are the domains of the rich. The rich figured out a long time ago that certain neighborhoods have more power.

  Frederick Lenz

  Success, Buddhism, Careers

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

  Nicholas Sparks

  Character, Literature, Situation

  Interview with Jennifer Levitsky and Niloufar Motamed, www.bookreporter.com. April 28, 1998.

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• People say Yogi (Berra) is a strange guy, and I've heard Yogi say some funny things. But he has a beautiful wife, he's rich, and he's famous. I don't see anything strange about that.

  Mickey Mantle

  Beautiful, Baseball, Funny Things

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• Wealth and poverty are seen for what they are. It begins to be seen that the poor are only they who feel poor, and poverty consists in feeling poor. The rich, as we reckon them, and among them the very rich, in a true scale would be found very indigent and ragged.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Feelings, Would Be, Poverty

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.98, London S. Low, Son & Marston 1870.

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• Iran is a rich country, and if the people of this country are poor, it's because of the wrong policies of the government.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Country, People, Poor

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• The foolish sayings of the rich pass for wise saws in society.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Wise, Saws, Wealth

  "Don Quixote de la Mancha". Book by Miguel de Cervantes, Part II, 1615.

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• Fat paunches have lean pates, and dainty bits Make rich the ribs, but backrout quite the wits.

  William Shakespeare

  Ribs, Eating, Fats

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• The hard part of loving is that one has to learn so often to let go of those we love, so they can do things, so they can grow, so they can return to us with an even richer, deeper love.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Love, Letting Go, Return

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• People have a tendency to cast me more as lawyers and doctors and just rich guys, rich assholes basically, a lot of rich assholes. That's what I'm normally seen as, you know.

  Barry Bostwick

  Doctors, People, Guy

  "Barry Bostwick on Rocky Horror, Spin City, and playing rich assholes". Interview with Joel Keller, www.avclub.com. June 6, 2015.

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• Listen to the lyrics - we're singing about everyday life: rich people trying to keep money, poor people tying to get it, and everyone having trouble with their husband or wife!

  Buddy Guy

  Husband, People, Wife

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• If you decide to become a veterinary surgeon you will never grow rich, but you will have a life of endless interest and variety.

  James Herriot

  Endless, Interest, Grows

  James Herriot (2012). “If Only They Could Talk: The classic memoirs of a 1930s vet”, p.103, Pan Macmillan

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