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• It {France} may be the only country in the world where the rich are sometimes brilliant.

  Lillian Hellman

  Country, World, May

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• If you haven't already noticed, all my books are about a lonely person looking for some way to connect with other people.In a way, that is the opposite of the American Dream: to get so rich you can rise above the rabble, all those people on the freeway or, worse, the bus.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Dream, Lonely, Book

  Chuck Palahniuk (2004). “Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories”, NY Books

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• You can say that I've grown bitter but of this you can be sure. The rich have get their channels in the bedrooms of the poor. And there's a mighty Judgement coming but I may be wrong.

  Leonard Cohen

  Judgement, May, Bitter

  Leonard Cohen (2008). “The Lyrics of Leonard Cohen: Enhanced Edition”, p.250, Omnibus Press

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• A million million worlds that move in peace;A million mighty laws that never cease;And one small ant-heap, hidden by small weeds,Rich with eggs, slaves and store of millet-seeds.They sleep beneath the sodAnd trust in God.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Weed, Moving, Sleep

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Gary Scharnhorst (2012). “Charlotte Perkins Gilman's In this Our World and Uncollected Poems”, p.7, Syracuse University Press

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• Beware of the manipulativeness of rich students who were neglected by their parents. They love to turn the campus into hysterical psychodramas of sexual transgression, followed by assertions of parental authority and concern. And don't look for sexual enlightenment from academe, which spews out mountains of books but never looks at life directly.

  Camille Paglia

  Book, Parent, Enlightenment

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.50, Vintage

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• I consider a good reputation is a great part of the human happiness. Some people, if they are very, very rich can permit themselves certain negligence to their reputations.

  Aristotle Onassis

  People, Reputation, Neglect

  "Ari: Life and Times of Aristotle Socrates Onassis". Book by Peter Evans, 1978.

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• In the courtroom, watch the balance of the scalesIf the price is right, there's time for more appealsThe strings are pulled, the switch is stayedThe finest lawyers fees are paidAnd a rich man never died upon the chair

  Phil Ochs

  Men, Balance, Watches

  Song: The Iron Lady, Album: I Ain't Marching Anymore

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• Not a sorrow, not a burden, not a temptation, not a bereavement, not a disappointment, not a care, not a groan or tear, but has its antidote in God's rich and inexhaustible resources.

  George C. Lorimer

  God, Disappointment, Bereavement

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert (p. 282), 1895.

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• I am firmly convinced, as I have already said, that to effect any great social improvement, it is sympathy rather than self-interest, the sense of duty rather than the desire for self-advancement, that must be appealed to. Envy is akin to admiration, and it is the admiration that the rich and powerful excite which secures the perpetuation of aristocracies.

  Henry George

  Powerful, Self, Envy

  Henry George (1884). “Social Problems”

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• To the lazy man the world appears bereft of all blessings; if poor, he has no friends; if rich, he has no ambition; he aims at nothing, and generally hits his mark.

  James Ellis

  Ambition, Blessing, Men

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• Art leads to a more profound concept of life, because art itself is a profound expression of feeling. The artist is born, and art is the expression of his overflowing soul. Because his soul is rich, he cares comparatively little about the superficial necessities of the material world; he sublimates the pressure of material affairs in an artistic experience.

  Hans Hofmann

  Art, Expression, Profound

  "Search for the Real: And Other Essays". Book by Hans Hofmann. "Painting and Culture", p. 56, 1948.

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• Do you dare to accuse wine of clouding the reason? Quote me more marvelous effects than those of wine. Look! when a man drinks, he is rich, everything he touches succeeds, he gains lawsuits, is happy and helps his friends. Come, bring hither quick a flagon of wine, that I may soak my brain and get an ingenious idea.

  Aristophanes

  Wine, Men, Ideas

  Aristophanes (2013). “The Eleven Comedies”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• BRAZILIFICATION:The widening gulf between the rich and the poor and the accompanying disappearance of the middle classes.

  Douglas Coupland

  Class, Poor, Middle

  1991 Generation X,'Our Parents Had More'.

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• The girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband; a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a rich man.

  Anthony Trollope

  Girl, Husband, Lying

  Anthony Trollope (2015). “The Prime Minister (Unabridged): Parliamentary Novel from the prolific English novelist, known for The Warden, Barchester Towers, Doctor Thorne, The Last Chronicle of Barset, Can You Forgive Her? and Phineas Finn”, p.32, e-artnow

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• Women in London are like the rich silks; they are out of fashion a great while before they wear out.

  Aphra Behn

  Fashion, Women, London

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• We are promised abundance of all good things--yet we are rich only in hunger and thirst. What would become of us if we did not take our stand on hope, and if our heart did not hasten beyond this world!

  John Calvin

  Hope, Heart, World

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• The poor yield to the rich, the common people to the upper ten, the servants to their masters, the ignorant to the scholars; but there is nobody who does not imagine that he is really better than others.

  John Calvin

  Yield, People, Ignorant

  John Calvin (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.32, Baker Books

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• I had a drug problem. I'd go to parties, take a leak, and there was cocaine right there. I was 25 when it started, rich, famous, and retired.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Party, Drug, Problem

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• It had long been true, and prisoners knew this better than anyone, that the poorer you were the more likely you were to end up in jail. This was not just because the poor committed more crimes. In fact, they did. The rich did not have to commit crimes to get what they wanted; the laws were on their side. But when the rich did commit crimes, they often were not prosecuted, and if they were they could get out on bail, hire clever lawyers, get better treatment from judges. Somehow, the jails ended up full of poor black people.

  Howard Zinn

  Clever, Law, Jail

  Howard Zinn (2015). “A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present”, p.516, Routledge

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• If you bail out every investment bank that gets in trouble, that's not capitalism, that's socialism for the rich

  Jim Rogers

  Bail, Trouble, Socialism

  "Jim Rogers: 'Abolish the Fed'". www.cnbc.com. March 12, 2008.

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• I don't believe there is one woman within the confines of this state who does not believe in birth control. I never met one. That is, I never met one who thought that she should be kept in ignorance of contraceptive methods. Many I have met who valued the knowledge they possessed, but thought there were certain other classes who would be better kept in ignorance. The old would protect the young. The rich would keep the poor in ignorance. The good would keep their knowledge from the bad, the strong from the weak.

  Crystal Eastman

  Strong, Believe, Ignorance

  Crystal Eastman (1978). “Crystal Eastman on Women and Revolution”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Most people get into bands for three very simple rock and roll reasons: to get laid, to get fame, and to get rich.

  Bob Geldof

  Simple, Rocks, Rock And Roll

  1977 In Melody Maker, 27 Aug.

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• Oh, the twenties and the thirties were not otherwise designedThan other times when blind men into ditches led the blind,When the rich mouse ate the cheese and the poor mouse got the rind,And man, the self-destroyer, was not lucid in his mind.

  William Plomer

  Men, Self, Mind

  William Plomer (1973). “Collected poems”

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• Calmly take what ill betideth;
  Patience wins the crown at length:
  Rich repayment him abideth
  Who endures in quiet strength.
  Brave the tamer of the lion;
  Brave whom conquered kingdoms praise;
  Bravest he who rules his passions,
  Who his own impatience sways.

  Johann Gottfried Herder

  Passion, Winning, Brave

  "'Die wiedergefundenen Söhne' ('The Recovered Sons', 1801)". The Monthly Religious Magazine, Volume 10, p. 445, 1853.

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• Mean Streets dealt with the American Dream, according to which everybody thinks they can get rich quick, and if they can't do it by legal means then they'll do it by illegal ones.

  Martin Scorsese

  Dream, Mean, Thinking

  "Scorsese on Scorsese". Book editing by Ian Christie, David Thompson, 2003.

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