Nick Hanauer Quotes
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Canada is rich in hydrocarbons and other natural resources... India's requirements and Canada's surplus are a perfect match.
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Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.
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I just want to be rich and famous.
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There are so many bad influences out there. I don't care if a kid is rich or poor, if he lives in a million-dollar house or the ghetto, he is going to find some sick things on the street. And if we don't clean it up soon, we're all going to pay the price.
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Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
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The shock caused by the September 11 events has also lead to a thorough reflection on the existing disparity between rich and poor countries, on the misery of populations of the South.
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I am quite a spendthrift but just being careful because my family was not rich, was not a rich family.
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Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.
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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.
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You campaigned against rich people and you got enough envy whipped up in the country and you're gonna get 'em. You're gonna stick it to those rich people. But guess what? You may not get anymore revenue. You may not get anymore economic growth. But you can say, 'I stuck it to the rich people.'
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Few of us can stand prosperity. Another man's, I mean.
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If you can't get rich dealing with politicians, there's something wrong with you.
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I'd like to be rich enough so I could throw soap away after the letters are worn off
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To be wealthy you must develop a burning desire for wealth and financial independence.
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Competition is the most promising means to achieve and secure prosperity. It alone enables people in their role of consumer to gain from economic progress. It ensures that all advantages which result from higher productivity may eventually be enjoyed.
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Prosperity is like perfume, it often makes the head ache.
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My administration's compact with the Filipino people will demand no less than the attainment of lasting peace and equitable prosperity. We will employ all the tools at our disposal to achieve this.
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Rich people are willing to promote themselves and their value. Poor people think negatively about selling and promotion.
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Shower on him every blessing, drown him in a sea of happiness, give him economic prosperity such that he should have nothing else to do but sleep, eat cakes, and busy himself with the continuation of the species, and even then, out of sheer ingratitude, sheer spite, man would play you some nasty trick.
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Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.
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All we are, all we can be, are the stories we tell," he says, and he is talking as if he is talking only to me. "Long after we are gone, our words will be all that is left, and who is to say what really happened or even what reality is? Our stories, our fiction, our words will be as close to truth as can be. And no one can take that away from you.
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Every story has a place where it deserves to be told.
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Prosperity isn't something that squirts out of rich people.
