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• The Philippines is in a strategic position. It is both East and West, right and left, rich and poor. We are neither here nor there.

  Imelda Marcos

  East, Philippines, West

  Katipunan Magazine, February 1982.

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• A high proportion of the population enjoys many of the 'luxuries' which until recently were considered the prerogative of the rich; and the ordinary worker lives at what even two decades ago would have been considered in Britain a middle-class standard of life.

  Anthony Crosland

  Class, Two, Luxury

  "The Future of Socialism". Book by Anthony Crosland, 1956.

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• The rich is the one that rules over those of little means, and the borrower is servant to the man doing the lending.

  Solomon

  Mean, Men, Littles

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• Save your wealth against future calamity. Do not say, "what fear has a rich man of calamity?" Wealth sometimes vanishes away and large accumulations perish.

  Chanakya

  Men, Sometimes, Wealth

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• At first it was the incomes of corporations, then of rich citizens, then of well-provided widows and opulent workers, and finally the wealth of housemaids and the tips of waitresses. This is all in line with the ability to pay doctrine. The poor, simply because there are more of them, have more ability to pay than the rich.

  Frank Chodorov

  Widows, Lines, Pay

  Frank Chodorov (2007). “Income Tax: Root of All Evil”, p.52, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• I learned early that business is business and politics is politics. The proof is how few important businessmen have made good politicians. They may think that they are very smart about everything because they made millions of dollars by digging a hole in the ground and finding oil, but the talent and luck needed to become rich are not the same talent and luck needed to succeed on Parliament Hill.

  Jean Chretien

  Smart, Thinking, Digging A Hole

  "Straight from the Heart". Book by Jean Chretien, 1985.

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• I don't wanna get rich - just live good.

  Patsy Cline

  Just Live, Get Rich

  From a 1955 bio sheet; reproduced in liner notes, "The Patsy Cline Collection" album, MCA Nashville Records, 1992.

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• The rich are always enamored of the ancient.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Ancient, Enamored

  Samuel R. Delany (1968). “Nova”

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• We wouldn't want to be like the Swiss, would we? That would be awful! We'd be rich!

  Nigel Farage

  Would Be, Want, Awful

  "Ukip's Nigel Farage ridicules David Cameron's EU referendum speech" by Esther Addley, www.theguardian.com. January 23, 2013.

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• Sawbeaked epitome of bodiless Idea, tossed by gusts of ether, dive Through abstract mists and raid the sea of fact Eat rich strange fish, grow long bright feathers, press Form's flesh around thought's rib, and so derive From the act of beauty, beauty of the act.

  Philip Jose Farmer

  Sea, Ideas, Long

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• America is my home - I believe in her promise and I will do what I can to secure that promise for future generations of our children. America is great - not because of our military might or our economic strength - but because of the greatness of Americans, and I welcome the opportunity to stand shoulder to shoulder, side by side with all of you to preserve our heritage rich in "liberty and justice for all."

  Alberto Gonzales

  Children, Military, Believe

  Remarks at his installation as Attorney General, www.justice.gov. February 14, 2005.

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• It is a merchant's nature to quibble over coins. It is how we become rich and buy satin shirts. The problems of who governs this area is one for another day.

  David Gemmell

  Coins, Another Day, Problem

  "The Swords of Night and Day". Book by David Gemmell, "Drenai series", Ch. 18, 2004.

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• We were giving advice for the single-worst idea to come forward from a group that's been rife with them, it would be this: The idea is this: Let's make the tax code of America better for very rich people; let's give substantial tax relief to the richest people we can find. Forget about the person making $40,000 a year and paying Social Security payroll tax. Forget about all those other people paying income tax; we're here to give tax relief to the richest 2% of America.

  Barney Frank

  Years, Ideas, Payroll Tax

  "Estate Tax Debate". "PBS NewsHour" with Kwame Holman, www.pbs.org. June 08, 2000.

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• We are all connected. What unites us is our common humanity. I don't want to oversimplify things - but the suffering of a mother who has lost her child is not dependent on her nationality, ethnicity or religion. White, black, rich, poor, Christian, Muslim or Jew - pain is pain - joy is joy.

  Desmond Tutu

  Christian, Mother, Children

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I love and revere the rich and proud history of America. And I am determined to take our best traditions into the future. But with all respect, we do not need to build a bridge to the past. We need to build a bridge to the future.

  William J. Clinton

  Past, America, Bridges

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• We don't have a choice about Facebook any more. The choice element is less obvious than it seems. Maybe the 1bn poor people and a few hundred thousand rich people can afford not to be on it.. the rest of us don't have any choice.

  Andrew Keen

  People, Choices, Elements

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• Unfortunately, in rich-world health, innovation is both your friend and your enemy. Innovation is inventing organ replacement, joint replacement. We're inventing ways of doing new things that cost $300,000 and take people in their 70s and, on average, give them an extra, say, two or three years of life. And then you have to say, given finite resources, should we fire two or three teachers to do this operation?

  Bill Gates

  Teacher, Average, Years

  "Bill Gates: ‘Death is something we really understand extremely well’". Interview with Ezra Klein, www.washingtonpost.com. May 17, 2013.

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• He[Michael Jackson] had a joy in being alive. There was a joy you felt of him on the stage and making us not just feel good but pushing us against ourselves with the "Man in the Mirror," looking at ourselves critically, "Black or White," what does it mean to get caught in a color as opposed to a rich history and culture?

  Cornel West

  Mean, Men, Mirrors

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I grew up in Hollywood but not in any rich neighborhood.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Hollywood, Grew Up, Neighborhood

  Interview with Ingrid Sischy and Amanda Duberman, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 4, 2012.

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• God only, who made us rich, can make us poor.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Lilies, Poor, Made

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.146

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• The study of tavern history often brings to light much evidence of sad domestic changes. Many a cherished and beautiful home, rich in annals of family prosperity and private hospitality, ended its days as a tavern.

  Alice Morse Earle

  Beautiful, Home, Light

  Alice Morse Earle (2016). “Stage-coach and Tavern Days”, p.40, Library of Alexandria

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• Cinema is far too rich and capable a medium to be merely left to the storytellers.

  Peter Greenaway

  Cinema, Mediums, Storyteller

  "Being Naked - Playing Dead: The Art of Peter Greenaway". Book by Alan Woods, 1996.

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• Just because I was married to Aly Khan, people think I'm rich. Well, I'm not. I never got a dime from Aly or from any of my husbands.

  Rita Hayworth

  Husband, Thinking, People

  The New York Times, October 25, 1970.

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• There is a sort of creative purity in an independent film, in the passion of the director, the passion of the crew. They're not getting a whole lot of money, so you know they are not there because they want to get rich. Instead, they are there because they want to make a movie. In the bigger films, I remember when I used to do those, it's just a job for a lot of people, so there is less of an intense energy devoted to the whole project.

  Amy Irving

  Jobs, Passion, Independent

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• Islam lays great emphasis on the social side of things. Every day, the rich and the poor, the great and the small living in a locality are brought five times in a day in the mosque in the terms of perfect equality of mankind and thereby the foundation of a healthy social relationship is laid and established through prayer. At the end of Ramazan comes the new moon, the crescent as a signal for a mass gathering on the 'Id day again in perfect equality of mankind which effects the entire Muslim world.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Prayer, Moon, Perfect

  Message on the occasion of Eid-ul-Fitr, October, 1941.

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