Rich Quotes
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The rich philistinism emanating from advertisements is due not to their exaggerating (or inventing) the glory of this or that serviceable article but to suggesting that the acme of human happiness is purchasable and that its purchase somehow ennobles the purchaser.
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If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
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We're not so poor that we have to spend our wilderness or so rich that we can afford to.
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I was obsessed with being rich and famous.
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The poor prayed to become rich, and the rich prayed to become richer.
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The rich nations of the world are acting like ancient usurers, lending money to the desperate poor on terms that cannot possibly be met and, thus, steadily acquiring more and more control over the lives and assets of the poor.
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I have found more inspiration in the cottages of fishermen than in the palaces of the rich.
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If you took every single penny that Warren Buffett has, it'd pay for 4-1/2 days of the US government. This tax-the-rich won't work. The problem here is the government is way bigger than even the capacity of the rich to sustain it. The Buffett Rule would raise $3.2 billion a year, and take 514 years just to pay off Obama's 2011 budget deficit.
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As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
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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.
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In teaching your child, do not forget that suffering is good too. It makes a person rich in character.
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If the poor, for example, because they are more in number, divide among themselves the property of the rich,- is not this unjust? . . this law of confiscation clearly cannot be just.
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A rich dress adds but little to the beauty of a person. It may possibly create a deference, but that is rather an enemy to love.
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However rich we may become in knowledge of the deeper causes of historical results, we forgo all understanding of history if we forget this inner continuity,--i.e., the conscious intentions of the participants in history-making and their consciously known successes.
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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.
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It doesn't matter how rich you are - you know when you're being ripped off.
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Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich -- that is the democracy of capitalist society.
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Grief and memory go together. After someone dies, that's what you're left with. And the memories are so slippery yet so rich.
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Terror is the poor man's war, war is the rich man's terror. Ultimately, all wars will end either in annihilation or at the negotiating table. (#) A terrorist is someone who has a bomb but can't afford an air force.
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Anytime I hear that somebody's really rich, the first question is, 'Do you do anything with it? Or do you, like, chill? You just sit on it?'
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It's going to be really interesting to see what the heroin market does in the next two years or so. One thing you can be pretty sure of. The Afghan peasants who grow poppies won't get rich. The money will end up in places like Dubai.
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We are so very rich if we know just a few people in a way in which we know no others.
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If you're gonna build units for the rich, you're gonna build units for the poor.
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He buried his hands in the rich velvet of her hair. “I thought I’d die for wanting you.
