William E. Simon Quotes
If you really want to help the poor, help the rich. They're the ones who will invest, build more factories, create more jobs.
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We all got driven out of Manhattan. It was a very conducive place for artists when I was growing up, and now it's definitely not. The city has been completely taken over by the rich.
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I was always an avid reader of books. My vocabulary, my English are all thanks to that reading habit. Reading keeps me grounded. I came from a very middle class family – poor, in fact.
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To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
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Poor countries are poor because they are wasting their resources.
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The resources of our continent attract, more than ever, the interests of rich countries.
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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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I'd definitely rather be rich than famous.
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It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.
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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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To denigrate the union movement in this way is to denigrate the right and the ability of people who are not rich to organize and to accomplish things together.
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I'm a mom, so I have to be comfortable. Jeans are a staple - I have way too many in my closet! It's warm in Florida, so I wear jeans and a tank top every day. I love my True Religions, my Rich and Skinny, and Citizens of Humanity. But I also love getting dressed up!
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Liberals have to get more comfortable with dealing with the poor as they actually are. I admire their refusal to look down on the least among us, but at some level, that can become an excuse to never really look at the problem at all.
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If I could remake any Eighties project, it would be less an action flick than a character-driven drama with a rich story to tell.
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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 personally think you can have a really rich and full life with no abs. Abs are for wimps.
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I am particularly interested in helping to heal women who have a fistula after their pregnancies.
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The happiest people, the ones you like the most, they're never worried about being rich.
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Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.
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Do anything better than it was ever done before and youll get rich.
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The capitalist system is about taking from the Earth and from the other great commodity, labour. What's happening with this system is that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer, and the only way out of it is supposed to be growth. But growth is debt. It's going to make the situation worse.
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You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea.
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You can only hope to get a combination of happy work and a happy life.
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Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.
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If you really want to help the poor, help the rich. They're the ones who will invest, build more factories, create more jobs.
