Rich Quotes - Page 30

• Adversity makes men wise but not rich.

  John Ray

  Wise, Adversity, Men

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• God has made no one absolute. The rich depend on the poor, as well as the poor on the rich. The world is but a magnificent building; all the stones are gradually cemented together. No one subsists by himself.

  Owen Feltham

  Together, World, Stones

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• Now, for some of you it doesn't matter. You were born rich and you're going to stay rich. But here's my advice to the rest of you: Take dead aim on the rich boys. Get them in the crosshairs and take them down. Just remember, they can buy anything but they can't buy backbone. Don't let them forget it. Thank you.

  Bill Murray

  Boys, Advice, Matter

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• I can walk. It's just that I'm so rich I don't need to.

  Alan Bennett

  Needs, Wealth, Walks

  Alan Bennett (2008). “Alan Bennett Plays 1: Forty Years On, Getting On, Habeas Corpus and Enjoy”, p.27, Faber & Faber

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• To see itself through, music must have idea or magic. ... Music with neither dies young though rich.

  Ned Rorem

  Ideas, Magic, Young

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• I am not included within the pale of this glorious anniversary! Your high independence only reveals the immeasurable distance between us. The blessings in which you, this day, rejoice, are not enjoyed in common. The rich inheritance of justice, liberty, prosperity and independence, bequeathed by your fathers, is shared by you, not by me. The sunlight that brought life and healing to you, has brought stripes and death to me. This Fourth July is yours, not mine.

  Frederick Douglass

  Father, Distance, Healing

  What to the Slave is the 4th of July?, delivered 4 July 1852

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• I knew the poor,
  I knew the hideous death they die,
  when famine lays its bleak hand on the door;
  I knew the rich,
  sated with merriment,
  who yet are sad.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Life, Knowledge, Doors

  Hilda Doolittle (1988). “Selected Poems”, p.120, New Directions Publishing

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• The last thing I want to be is a rich black superstar. I just want to act.

  James Earl Jones

  Black, Want, Lasts

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• The centuries will burn rich loads
  With which we groaned,
  Whose warmth shall lull their dreaming lids,
  While songs are crooned:
  But they will not dream of us poor lads,
  Left in the ground.

  Wilfred Owen

  Dream, Song, Time

  Wilfred Owen (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Wilfred Owen (Illustrated)”, p.178, Delphi Classics

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• There is a glorious pattern for every man's life, an individual, perfect patter. No two people are alike ... No two leaves are alike-no two snowstorms-no two sets of fingerprints. No two lives are alike, yet each life holds a divine pattern of unfoldment, a great and holy destiny, rich in achievement and honor. As you live true to the pattern of yourself, that deep, inner self, you will unfold as perfect, as joyous, as naturally beautiful as the tree will reach its full measure of fulfillment.

  Annalee Skarin

  Beautiful, Destiny, Men

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• University: ... a place where rich men send their sons who have no aptitude for business.

  Kin Hubbard

  Education, Son, Men

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• Liberals correctly perceive the Reagan record as their most dangerous enemy. Why? Because what happened during the 1980s - prosperity at home the longest period of peacetime growth in this nation's history, strength abroad - directly contradicts every liberal belief. Bill Clinton has confused many about the 1980s and the Reagan legacy. His patently false mantra states, "The rich got richer, the poor got poorer. The rich didn't pay their fair share, etc."

  Rush Limbaugh

  Confused, Home, Growth

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• For God to be kept out of the classroom or out of America's public debate by nervous school administrators or overcautious politicians serves no one's interests. That restriction prevents people from drawing on this country's rich and diverse religious heritage for guidance, and it degrades the nation's moral discourse by placing a whole realm of theological reasoning out of bounds. The price of that sort of quarantine, at a time of moral dislocation, is - and has been - far too high.

  Nancy Gibbs

  Christian, Country, Religious

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• The determination of the value of an item must not be based on its price, but rather on the utility it yields. The price of the item is dependent only on the thing itself and is equal for everyone; the utility, however, is dependent on the particular circumstances of the person making the estimate. Thus there is no doubt that a gain of one thousand ducats is more significant to a pauper than to a rich man though both gain the same amount.

  Daniel Bernoulli

  Money, Determination, Men

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• Money is the source of the greatest vice, and that nation which is most rich, is most wicked.

  Fanny Burney

  Money, Evil, Wicked

  Fanny Burney (1907). “The Early diary of Frances Burney, 1768-1778: with a selection from her correspondence, and from the journals of her sisters Susan and Charlotte Burney”

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• We urgently need a debate about the best ways of supporting families in modern America, without blinders that prevent us from seeing the full extent of dependence and interdependence in American life. As long as we pretend that only poor or abnormal families need outside assistance, we will shortchange poor families, overcompensate rich ones, and fail to come up with effective policies for helping families in the middle.

  Stephanie Coontz

  America, Long, Needs

  Stephanie Coontz (2016). “The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap”, p.73, Basic Books

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• A speculator is a man who, if he dies at the right time, has a rich widow.

  Christina Stead

  Men, Widows, Right Time

  Christina Stead (2012). “House of All Nations”, p.322, Open Road Media

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• Poor people have the blues because they're poor and hungry. Rich people can't sleep at night because they're trying to hold on to their money and everything they have.

  John Lee Hooker

  Sleep, Night, People

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• Poverty makes people do reckless things, but [the rich] do worse to protect their [interests]

  Immortal Technique

  People, Poverty, Reckless

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• Anyone who's been poor and gets rich is stalked by guilt and fear.  Guilt because you know it isn't fair, that life hasn't changed for everyone

  Russell Brand

  Guilt, Poor, Changed

  Russell Brand (2014). “Revolution”, p.30, Ballantine Books

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• To heal the breach between the rich and the poor, it is necessary to distinguish between justice and charity.

  Pope Pius X

  Justice, Charity, Poor

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• Tonight the Republican presidential candidates had a big debate, 10 candidates. The last time that many rich white guys got together, I think Exxon merged with Mobil.

  Jay Leno

  Thinking, White, Guy

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• No matter how well-born, how intelligent, how highly educated, how virtuous, how rich, how refined, the women of to-day constitutea political class below that of every man, no matter how base-born, how stupid, how ignorant, how vicious, how poverty-stricken, how brutal. The pauper in the almshouse may vote; the lady who devotes her philanthropic thought to making that almshouse habitable, may not. The tramp who begs cold victuals in the kitchen may vote; the heiress who feeds him and endows universities may not.

  Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi

  Stupid, Intelligent, Men

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• I never cared about money. I'm not destined to be a rich woman. I'm destined to be a woman who makes a lot of money and never has any. I've made millions and millions and millions of dollars and I just spend it.

  Cher

  Dollars, Made, Lots Of Money

  "New Again: Cher". Interview with Bob Colacello, Andy Warhol, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 12, 2013.

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• What makes Disney movies and Pixar movies always so good, hey take time and they're constantly honing, and tweaking, and rejiggering things, and taking influences from every cog, including myself, that can help. Any place where there can be inspiration. They make every moment very layered and very rich.

  Sarah Silverman

  Inspiration, Cogs, Hey

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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