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• I knew the poor,
  I knew the hideous death they die,
  when famine lays its bleak hand on the door;
  I knew the rich,
  sated with merriment,
  who yet are sad.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Life, Knowledge, Doors

  Hilda Doolittle (1988). “Selected Poems”, p.120, New Directions Publishing

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• If Montaigne is a man in the prime of life sitting in his study on a warm morning and putting down the sum of his experience in his rich, sinewy prose, then Pascal is that same man lying awake in the small hours of the night when death seems very close and every thought is heightened by the apprehension that it may be his last.

  Cyril Connolly

  Morning, Lying, Night

  Cyril Connolly (1946). “The Condemned Playground”

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• The heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house. Buildings become furniture, courtyards become carpets and arrases, the streets are like galleries, the boulevards conservatories. It is a house, one or two centuries old, rich, bourgeois, distinguished. The only way of going out, or shutting the door behind you, is to leave the centre.

  John Berger

  Heart, Doors, Two

  John Berger (2011). “Keeping a Rendezvous”, p.101, Vintage

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• Only the poor can know all the disadvantages of poverty. Only the rich can know all the disadvantages of wealth.

  Cullen Hightower

  Poverty, Wealth, Poor

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• Language is like soil. However rich, it is subject to erosion, and its fertility is constantly threatened by uses that exhaust itsvitality. It needs constant re-invigoration if it is not to become arid and sterile.

  Elizabeth Drew

  Erosion, Needs, Use

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• God has made no one absolute. The rich depend on the poor, as well as the poor on the rich. The world is but a magnificent building; all the stones are gradually cemented together. No one subsists by himself.

  Owen Feltham

  Together, World, Stones

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• Now, for some of you it doesn't matter. You were born rich and you're going to stay rich. But here's my advice to the rest of you: Take dead aim on the rich boys. Get them in the crosshairs and take them down. Just remember, they can buy anything but they can't buy backbone. Don't let them forget it. Thank you.

  Bill Murray

  Boys, Advice, Matter

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• To see itself through, music must have idea or magic. ... Music with neither dies young though rich.

  Ned Rorem

  Ideas, Magic, Young

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• Rich don't work for money. They work for assets.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Assets

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• Tough love is just the right phrase: love for the rich and privileged, tough for everyone else.

  Noam Chomsky

  Love Is, Tough Love, Phrases

  Noam Chomsky (1996). “Powers and Prospects: Reflections on Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.92, South End Press

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• The centuries will burn rich loads
  With which we groaned,
  Whose warmth shall lull their dreaming lids,
  While songs are crooned:
  But they will not dream of us poor lads,
  Left in the ground.

  Wilfred Owen

  Dream, Song, Time

  Wilfred Owen (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Wilfred Owen (Illustrated)”, p.178, Delphi Classics

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• University: ... a place where rich men send their sons who have no aptitude for business.

  Kin Hubbard

  Education, Son, Men

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• Liberals correctly perceive the Reagan record as their most dangerous enemy. Why? Because what happened during the 1980s - prosperity at home the longest period of peacetime growth in this nation's history, strength abroad - directly contradicts every liberal belief. Bill Clinton has confused many about the 1980s and the Reagan legacy. His patently false mantra states, "The rich got richer, the poor got poorer. The rich didn't pay their fair share, etc."

  Rush Limbaugh

  Confused, Home, Growth

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• A speculator is a man who, if he dies at the right time, has a rich widow.

  Christina Stead

  Men, Widows, Right Time

  Christina Stead (2012). “House of All Nations”, p.322, Open Road Media

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• For God to be kept out of the classroom or out of America's public debate by nervous school administrators or overcautious politicians serves no one's interests. That restriction prevents people from drawing on this country's rich and diverse religious heritage for guidance, and it degrades the nation's moral discourse by placing a whole realm of theological reasoning out of bounds. The price of that sort of quarantine, at a time of moral dislocation, is - and has been - far too high.

  Nancy Gibbs

  Christian, Country, Religious

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• A dirty mind is a rich inner resource.

  Mason Cooley

  Sex, Dirty, Mind

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• Anyone who's been poor and gets rich is stalked by guilt and fear.  Guilt because you know it isn't fair, that life hasn't changed for everyone

  Russell Brand

  Guilt, Poor, Changed

  Russell Brand (2014). “Revolution”, p.30, Ballantine Books

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• No matter how well-born, how intelligent, how highly educated, how virtuous, how rich, how refined, the women of to-day constitutea political class below that of every man, no matter how base-born, how stupid, how ignorant, how vicious, how poverty-stricken, how brutal. The pauper in the almshouse may vote; the lady who devotes her philanthropic thought to making that almshouse habitable, may not. The tramp who begs cold victuals in the kitchen may vote; the heiress who feeds him and endows universities may not.

  Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi

  Stupid, Intelligent, Men

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• I never cared about money. I'm not destined to be a rich woman. I'm destined to be a woman who makes a lot of money and never has any. I've made millions and millions and millions of dollars and I just spend it.

  Cher

  Dollars, Made, Lots Of Money

  "New Again: Cher". Interview with Bob Colacello, Andy Warhol, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 12, 2013.

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• I would assume that there is a greater amount of joy for you in being able to write and help produce your own stuff and make a decent living, but not get rich versus always doing the other stuff that you don’t write, and make more money.

  Julie Delpy

  Writing, Joy, Able

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. January 22, 2014.

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• I do have a huge problem, a huge problem. In fact, worse than watching is hearing. I cannot stand to hear my own voice. When it's coming out of my mouth right now it sounds fantastically interesting to me. It's rich in light and shade, it goes up and down. But when I hear it either on TV or even on someone's answering machine, I just sound like I've had half my brain removed.

  Hugh Laurie

  Voice, Light, Interesting

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Not the children of the rich or of the powerful only, but of all alike, boys and girls, both noble and ignoble, rich and poor, in all cities and towns, villages and hamlets, should be sent to school

  John Amos Comenius

  Girl, Children, Powerful

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• You speak of poverty and dependence. Who are poor and dependent? Who are rich and independent? When was it that men agreed to respect the appearance and not the reality?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Truth, Independent, Reality

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.361, Penguin

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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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• More and more details coming out now about spoiled rich kid Osama bin Laden. Time reports this week he was one of 52 kids. Mother must be exhausted. This guy inherited $80 million at age 13 and has since expanded it to $300 million through construction, smart investments and gas and oil investments. This way, he can use the money in his war against capitalism.

  Jay Leno

  Mother, War, Smart

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