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• The rich are different than you and me: they have more money and they have more power.

  Sara Paretsky

  Different, More Money

  Sara Paretsky (2004). “Blacklist”, p.383, Penguin

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• Throughout the 1980s, we did hear too much about individual gain and the ethos of selfishness and greed. We did not hear enough about how to be a good member of a community, to define the common good and to repair the social contract. And we also found that while prosperity does not trickle down from the most powerful to the rest of us, all too often indifference and even intolerance do.

  Hillary Clinton

  Powerful, Ethos, Community

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• Nature does not conquer the world to God. It never has. It never will. In America, with its vast abounding wealth, its grand expanse of prairie, its reach of river, and its exuberant productiveness, there is danger that our riches will draw us away from God, and fasten us to earth; that they will make us not only rich, but mean; not only wealthy, but wicked. The grand corrective is the cross of Christ, seen in the sanctuary where the life and light of God are exhibited, and where the reverberation of the echoes from the great white throne are heard.

  Richard Salter Storrs

  Mean, Rivers, White

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 522), 1895.

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• More often than not, real life is so rich, complex and unpredictable that it would seem completely implausible in the pages of a novel.

  Candice Millard

  Real, Pages, Life Is

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• Legitimately produced, and truly inspired, fiction interprets humanity, informs the understanding, and quickens the affections. It reflects ourselves, warns us against prevailing social follies, adds rich specimens to our cabinets of character, dramatizes life for the unimaginative, daguerreotypes it for the unobservant, multiplies experience for the isolated or inactive, and cheers age, retirement and invalidism with an available and harmless solace.

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman

  Retirement, Cheer, Character

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• Wealth covers sin - the poor / Are naked as a pin.

  Kassia

  Naked, Sin, Wealth

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• I don't believe all rich people are selfless philanthropists.

  Bernard Goldberg

  Believe, People, Selfless

  "Bernie Goldberg Explains Why We Should Be Thanking Rich Americans". "The O'Reilly Factor", www.foxnews.com. December 13, 2010.

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• The kenosis of the Son reveals the mystery of God who is Love. This gift of life is an extension of a mysterious exchange at the heart of the Deity. In God himself the One does not exclude the Other, it includes it. The Unity of God is so complete, so rich, that it is not solitude enclosed in itself, but rather the fullness of communion. And thereby, the source of all communion.

  Olivier Clement

  Heart, Son, Solitude

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• When you're a political leader, when you represent the entire state or the entire country, not just Republicans or not just Democrats or not just the poor or not just the rich, you have to really represent everybody. No matter who contributes money, when you win, you represent everyone.

  David Shuster

  Country, Winning, Leader

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I didn't get into music to become famous and I didn't get into music to become rich either - I got into because I liked it.

  Jason Aldean

  Become Rich

  Interview with Ziyah Karmali, www.shavemagazine.com.

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• You are never going to have, in a country as rich as ours [the USA], that borders a country as poor as Mexico, an end to immigration. You just won't. The question is, if you make it humane and if you make it regulated. It's much better for an American worker to compete against a regulated immigrant inside labor standards, than it is to ever to compete against an illegal immigrant.

  Ezra Klein

  Country, Usa, Immigration

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• The unfortunate have claims upon the hearts of those whom God has blessed with affluence.

  Eliza Parsons

  Blessed, Heart, Affluence

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• Rich people making their houses bigger in order to make their lives happier wind up hurting their own marriages. There's a deep irony here. Do the couples perceive that irony?

  Tucker Carlson

  Hurt, Couple, Wind

  "The Situation with" Tucker Carlson, January 12, 2006.

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• Savings will not make you rich. Only canny investments do that. The role of savings is to keep you from becoming poor.

  Jane Bryant Quinn

  Money, Becoming, Roles

  Jane Bryant Quinn (2009). “Making the Most of Your Money Now: The Classic Bestseller Completely Revised for the New Economy”, p.213, Simon and Schuster

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• Magic Johnson links his HIV and treatment to health care as though ObamaCare would provide the same level of care that a mega rich celebrity would get. Is he going to dump his coverage? Is he going to dump it and sign up for ObamaCare?

  Greg Gutfeld

  Obamacare, Magic, Links

  "Critics pan Obama's threat to bypass Congress". "The Five" with Kimberly Guilfoyle, Bob Beckel, Eric Bolling, Dana Perino, and Greg Gutfeld, www.foxnews.com. January 16, 2014.

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• Most people try to get rich by being cheap and the price for that is that you live cheap and there is so much money out there; why would you want to live cheap?

  Robert Kiyosaki

  People, Trying, Want

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• The more that you travel the more you get the sense of the word as a larger place and the more you get a sense of the variety of history and mythology. And when you know about these things you can incorporate them into what I feel is a more rich and more large tapestry of fantasy.

  Cassandra Clare

  Fantasy, Mythology, Feels

  Source: www.phantastik-couch.de

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• I write about, more or less, everything I can think of, that is I stretch my imagination as far as it'll go. I am kind of stuck in the middle as far as my life goes, and hence my imagination tends to zero in on things which are indeed in the middle. That is, I don't write about the very rich, who I scarcely know, or the very poor who I don't know very well either.

  John Updike

  Zero, Writing, Thinking

  "Remembering John Updike, Literary Legend". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. March 17, 1988.

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• From being a dream, dams have become a very cynical corrupt enterprise; a way of letting governments lay their hands on huge sums of money; a way of centralizing resources; a way of snatching rivers away from the poor and giving them to the rich. And so in a sense they've become monuments to corruption.

  Arundhati Roy

  Letting Go, Dream, Government

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• When I was growing up, I don't remember being told that America was created so that everyone could get rich. I remember being told it was about opportunity and the pursuit of happiness. Not happiness itself, but the pursuit.

  Martin Scorsese

  Growing Up, Pursuit Of Happiness, Opportunity

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• If all were rich, gold would be penniless.

  Philip James Bailey

  Gold, Would Be, Ifs

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.211

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• It is said that heaven does not create one man above or below another man. Any existing distinction between the wise and the stupid, between the rich and the poor, comes down to a matter of education.

  Fukuzawa Yukichi

  Wise, Stupid, Men

  "An encouragement of learning". Book by Fukuzawa Yukichi and Obata Tokujirō, 1872-1876.

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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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• Were all the pleasures in the world, even pure air, made solely for the rich? I think it is immoral - it is horrible! - that one man may own twenty millions of money, and another has to commit a crime to keep the life in his miserable body. And if I were wealthy, I'd be a spendthrift! It's the spendthrifts who are the real friends of the poor. Some of their money filters through to the very lowest classes.

  Ellen Buckingham Mathews

  Real, Men, Thinking

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• Eliminate irrelevant and inaccurate comunications about what it means to be male or female, black or white, young or old, rich or poor, disabled or temporarily able-bodied, or to hold a particular belief system.

  Rosalie Maggio

  Mean, White, Rich Or Poor

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