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• I've always been a bit of a mix between art and technology. I used to paint a lot, but I'm not very good with my hands. It has always been a fusion between my computer gaming interests and being exposed to the rich data of society that we live in.

  Aaron Koblin

  Art, Technology, Hands

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• The rich are like beasts of burden, carrying treasure all day, and at the night of death unladen; they carry to their grave only the bruises and marks of their toil.

  Saint Augustine

  Night, Treasure, Riches

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 523, 1895.

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• The workmen's revolution, with the terrors of destruction and murder, not only threatens us, but we have already been living upon its verge during the last thirty years, and it is only by various cunning devices that we have been postponing the crisis. The hatred and contempt of the oppressed people are increasing, and the physical and moral strength of the richer classes are decreasing: the deceit which supports all this is wearing out, and the rich classes have nothing wherewith to comfort themselves.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Years, Class, People

  "What is to be done?". Book by Leo Tolstoy, p. 262, 1899.

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• The compassionate are not rich; therefore, the rich are not compassionate.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Compassionate

  "Path of Life". Book by Leo Tolstoy, Translated by M. Cote (2002), p.89, 1909.

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• The Jews are among the aristocracy of every land; if a literature is called rich in the possession of a few classic tragedies, what shall we say to a national tragedy lasting for fifteen hundred years, in which the poets and the actors were also the heroes.

  George Eliot

  Hero, Years, Land

  Daniel Deronda bk. 6, ch. 42 (1876)

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• In my opinion, every rich man is a miser.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Opinion, Misers

  "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book I, Ch. 14, 1595.

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• As the cream abandons the milk from which it took its life, and rises to the top and rides there, so men, because they are richer than those around about them, separate themselves, and all mankind below them they regard as skim milk.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Riches, Milk

  Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “The Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.381

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• The poor man with industry is happier than the rich man in idleness.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Work, Men, Poor

  Henry Ward Beecher (1850). “Industry and idleness: with causes of dishonesty : to which are appended six warnings”, p.16

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• The world, the future, is now within you as your past, as experience, skill in technique, and the rich, everlasting mystery is found to be childish you that, at the time, you made no effort to possess.

  Cesare Pavese

  Past, Skills, Effort

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.318, Transaction Publishers

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• One just spends as much money as one has. Very peculiar that! You never actually have any money. You think, If I had this much money ten years ago, I would have thought I was amazingly rich, but I still manage to spend it all and not have any left.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Money, Thinking, Years

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• Justice is justly represented blind, because she sees no difference in the parties concerned. She has but one scale and weight, for rich and poor, great and small.

  William Penn

  Party, Differences, Justice

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.57, Courier Corporation

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• I wonder why rich people always grow fat I suppose it's because there's nothing to worry them.

  Edith Wharton

  People, Worry, Wonder

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.637, Delphi Classics

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• If love be treasure, we'll be wondrous rich.

  Thomas Otway

  Love Is, Treasure, Ifs

  1682 Venice Preserved, or a Plot Discovered, act1, sc.1.

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• They say that the Dead die not, but remain Near to the rich heirs of their grief and mirth. I think they ride the calm mid-heaven, as these, In wise majestic melancholy train, And watch the moon, and the still-raging seas, And men, coming and going on the earth.

  Rupert Brooke

  Wise, Grief, Moon

  Rupert Brooke (2007). “1914 & Other Poems”, p.37, Jeremy Mills Publishing

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• Wealth has more and more increased, and at the same time gathered itself more and more into masses, strangely altering the old relations, and increasing the distance between the rich and the poor.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Distance, Wealth, Poor

  1829 Signs of the Times.

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• There's nothing like being in fashion. A man that has once got his character up for a wit is always sure of a laugh, say what he may. He may utter as much nonsense as he pleases, and all will pass current. No one stops to question the coin of a rich man; but a poor devil cannot pass off either a joke or a guinea without its being examined on both sides. Wit and coin are always doubted with a threadbare coat.

  Washington Irving

  Fashion, Character, Men

  Washington Irving, Charles Neider (1998). “The Complete Tales of Washington Irving”, p.274, Da Capo Press

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• Rich women are not too put upon by their children. You don't have to do all the things for a child that those women who had to stay at home did. My Ann had a French governess who took care of her until she was twelve years old and went off to boarding school.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Children, Home, School

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• Style is not a reward for the skinny. It's not, 'iI I'm rich, thin and young.' You may not like your size, but then don't invest in leather leggings. Let yourself want the expensive bag and really love it and show it off and have a ball with it.

  Stacy London

  Style, May, Want

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• It is okay to cut your wife's throat as long as you are rich, famous—and black.

  Jeff Cooper

  Cutting, Long, Wife

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• Rise early, that by habit it may become familiar, agreeable, healthy, and profitable. It may, for a while, be irksome to do this, but that will wear off; and the practice will produce a rich harvest forever thereafter; whether in public or private walks of life.

  George Washington

  Practice, Forever, Healthy

  George Washington (1908). “Letters and Addresses,”

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• Great thoughts in crude, unshapely verse set forth lose half their preciousness, and ever must, unless the diamond with its own rich dust be cut and polished, it seems little worth.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Cutting, Dust, Half

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1907). “Poems”

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• Current nationalism is merely the affirmation of the right of colonial elites to repeat historyand follow the road travelled by the rich toward the universal consumption of internationally marketed packages, a road which can ultimately lead only to universal pollution and universal frustration.

  Ivan Illich

  Frustration, Affirmation, Pollution

  Ivan Illich, Lionel Rubinoff (1971). “Tradition and Revolution”, Macmillan of Canada ; New York : St. Martin's Press

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• In both rich and poor nations consumption is polarized while expectation is equalized.

  Ivan Illich

  Expectations, Poor Nations, Consumption

  Ivan Illich, Lionel Rubinoff (1971). “Tradition and Revolution”, Macmillan of Canada ; New York : St. Martin's Press

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• The feeling of love is a rich feeling, but the expression of love in word or deed is a joy.

  Alexander Lowen

  Love Is, Expression, Joy

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• Aristocrats need not be rich, but they must be free, and in the modern world freedom grows rarer the more we prate about it.

  Robertson Davies

  Needs, World, Modern

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