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• Just as we should never balance the budget on the backs of the poor, so it is an economic delusion to think you can balance it only on the wallets of the rich.

  George Osborne

  Thinking, Balance, Economic

  "George Osborne unveils employee 'shares for rights' scheme" by Patrick Wintour and Nicholas Watt, www.theguardian.com. October 8, 2012.

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• human urine is both nutrient-rich and an effective tooth whitener

  Christopher McDougall

  Teeth, Humans, Nutrients

  Christopher McDougall (2010). “Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the greatest race the world has never seen”, p.275, Profile Books

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• I will stand up for what I believe and for what I have always believed: Every person has a right to be rich in this country and I want to help them get there.

  Jim Cramer

  Country, Believe, Want

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• ahhhh...organic and rich like good soil... makes me want to listen and hear it grow.
  the songs are honest and dimensional. it's music to my ears.

  Amy Ray

  Song, Ears, Want

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• Rare is the book that can actually transform us into better, more fulfilled people. Having combed through the research and documented case studies all over the world, Kristof and WuDunn present the clearest view I have ever seen of the human soul. A Path Appears tells us whether we are intrinsically good, why specific ways we parent our newborns help predict their chances for success, and how we can live lives of greater significance. This book, full of rich and riveting true stories, reminds us that human greatness is all around us, and even within us, if we dare to look.

  Ann Curry

  Live Life, Book, Greatness

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• Isabel Wilkerson's book is a masterful narrative of the rich wisdom and deep courage of a great people. Don't miss it!

  Cornel West

  Book, People, Missing

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• Europe has to avoid old prejudices and new ones. That means north versus south, rich versus poor.

  Mario Monti

  Mean, Europe, Prejudice

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• I'm from where the real hustlers pile dough, the home of Rich Rich Porter, Azie, Alpo.

  Big L

  Real, Home, Dough

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• [The Democrats] will say that the Reagan administrtion has given benefits to the rich at the expense of the poor - a term that they define broadly to include middle-income people, women, minorities, the aged, the young, farmers, steelworkers, and others.

  Herbert Stein

  People, Income, Minorities

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• If a man is wise, he gets rich an' if he gets rich, he gets foolish, or his wife does. That's what keeps the money movin' around.

  Finley Peter Dunne

  Wise, Money, Men

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• We must make organic the conventional choice and not the exception available only to the rich and educated.

  Maria Rodale

  Choices, Clean Air, Educated

  Maria Rodale (2010). “Organic Manifesto: How Organic Farming Can Heal Our Planet, Feed the World, and Keep Us Safe”, p.192, Rodale

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• The world is polarized. The middle class becomes smaller. The polarization makes the difference between rich and the poor big. This is true.

  Pope Francis

  Class, Differences, World

  "Pope says his economic message isn't class warfare, it's church doctrine". Press conference, www.cnn.com. July 14, 2015.

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• The human body is the most complex system ever created. The more we learn about it, the more appreciation we have about what a rich system it is.

  Bill Gates

  Appreciation, Body, Complex Systems

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• In Caribbean there is no middle class: you're either rich or you're poor. And the ladder to success is not really a ladder, it's a chain; once you reach a certain level, you can't go back and you can only keep going forward.

  Zoe Saldana

  Class, Ladders, Levels

  Source: movieweb.com

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• All politicians, even the most idealistic ones, are looking for money, sucking up to rich people.

  Paul Theroux

  People, Politician, Idealistic

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• There is an error common to both oligarchies and to democracies: in the latter the demagogues, when the multitude are above the law, are always cutting the city in two by quarrels with the rich, whereas they should always profess to be maintaining their cause; just as in oligarchies the oligarchs should profess to maintain the cause of the people, . .

  Aristotle

  Cutting, Errors, Law

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.2080, Princeton University Press

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• I think the gap between rich and poor is an extremely dangerous phenomenon and needs the immediate attention of the state.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Thinking, Needs, Attention

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

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• I think we'd all like to believe that after we shuffle off this mortal coil, that there's going to be something on the other side because for most of us, I know for me, life is so rich, so colorful and sensual and full of good things, things to read, things to eat, things to watch, places to go, new experiences, that I don't want to think that you just go to darkness.

  Stephen King

  Believe, Thinking, New Experiences

  "Stephen King On Growing Up, Believing In God And Getting Scared". "Fresh Air" with David Bianculli, www.npr.org. October 31, 2014.

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• Public policy today is favoring the rich, not the poor. It's not addressing the needs of the poor.

  Joseph Lowery

  Needs, Today, Poor

  "Rev. Joseph Lowery, Author Ron Christie on 'FNS'". "FOX News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. February 13, 2006.

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• To the rich, therefore, falls the burden of Beauty. And if they cannot assume it, then they deserve to die.

  Muriel Barbery

  Fall, Assuming, Burden

  Muriel Barbery (2013). “The Elegance of the Hedgehog”, p.85, Gallic Books

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• Technology must be guided and driven by ethics if it is to do more than provide new toys for the rich.

  Freeman Dyson

  Technology, Toys, Ethics

  Freeman J. Dyson (2016). “Dear Professor Dyson: Twenty Years of Correspondence Between Freeman Dyson and Undergraduate Students on Science, Technology, Society and Life”, p.347, World Scientific

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• Riches seldom make their owners rich.

  Samuel Johnson

  Riches, Wealth, Owners

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• I was 12 years fittin to be a billionaire; I was 15 years old as a millionaire. Ive been rich since I was 14. My son has been a millionaire since he was 12, so thats just the life. Weve been playing with money since young.

  Birdman

  Son, Years, Young

  "Birdman talks cash money milestone: half billion down, half billion to go" by Rob Markman, www.mtv.com. November 19, 2012.

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• They that hold the greatest farmes, pay the least rent (applyed to rich men that are unthankful to God).

  George Herbert

  Men, Pay, Rich Man

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.369

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• There was no Marshall Plan for Harry Potter, no International Financing Facility for books about underage wizards. It is heartbreaking that global society has evolved a highly efficient way to get entertainment to rich adults and children, while it can't get twelve-cent medicine to dying poor children.

  William Easterly

  Children, Book, Medicine

  William Easterly (2006). “The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good”, p.11, Penguin

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