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• It is perverse that a nation so rich should neglect its children so shamefully. Our attitude toward them is cruelly ambivalent. Weare sentimental about children but in our actions do not value them. We say we love them but give them little honor.

  Richard Stolley

  Attitude, Children, Giving

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• As professor in the Polytechnic School in Zürich I found myself for the first time obliged to lecture upon the elements of the differential calculus and felt more keenly than ever before the lack of a really scientific foundation for arithmetic.

  Richard Dedekind

  School, Foundation, Elements

  Richard Dedekind (1901). “Essays on the Theory of Numbers: I. Continuity and Irrational Numbers, II. The Nature and Meaning of Numbers”

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• Algebra is rich in structure but weak in meaning.

  Rene Thom

  Weak, Structure, Algebra

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• A major Iowa newspaper published an op-ed against Trump calling him a 'self-absorbed, wholly unqualified feckless blowhard.' Or as Trump put it, 'You forgot very rich ... I'm a very rich, self-absorbed, wholly unqualified feckless blowhard. Very, very rich.'

  Jimmy Fallon

  Self, Iowa, Calling

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• This Osama bin Laden guy, spoiled rich kid worth $300M. I have three words for this guy: Anna Nicole Smith. We send her over there, she'll get his money, he'll be dead in a week.

  Jay Leno

  Kids, Guy, Three

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• there is still an overwhelming social compulsion-an insanity of consensus, if you will-to get rich from life rather than live richly, to “do well” in the world instead of living well.

  Rolf Potts

  Insanity, World, Social

  Rolf Potts (2002). “Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel”, p.16, Ballantine Books

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• Derek Taylor was where all the razz-ma-tazz and class sprang from; the Beatles were just charming, rich young men.

  Eve Babitz

  Men, Class, Charming

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• The Rosary is my favorite prayer. A prayer so simple and so rich; from deepest heart, I exhort all to recite it.

  Pope John Paul II

  Prayer, Heart, Simple

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• Egalitarians create the most dangerous inequality of all - inequality of power. Allowing politicians to determine what all other human beings will be allowed to earn is one of the most reckless gambles imaginable. Like the income tax, it may start off being applied only to the rich but it will inevitably reach us all.

  Thomas Sowell

  Income, May, Politician

  Thomas Sowell (2013). “Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays”, p.332, Hoover Press

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• I found a new me. When I first came over to America, it was like, 'How can I be rich? How can I build my movie career? How can I become the most muscular man?' It was all about me, and then there was this turn, and I found it was really great to do this.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Men, Careers, America

  Cowboys & Indians magazine, September 2004.

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• We see how beautiful and wonderful and amazing things are, and we see how caught up we are. It isn’t that one is the bad part and one is the good part, but that it’s a kind of interesting, smelly, rich, fertile mess of stuff. When it’s all mixed up together, it’s us: humanness.

  Pema Chodron

  Beautiful, Interesting, Together

  Pema Chodron (1996). “Awakening Loving-Kindness”, p.45, Shambhala Publications

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• Jewish introspection and Jewish humor is a way of surviving . . . if you're not handsome and you're not athletic and you're not rich, there's still one last hope with girls, which is being funny.

  Mike Nichols

  Girl, Athletic, Handsome

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• Get a millionaire mentor. Most of us were brought up middle class or poor and then hold ourselves to the limits and ideas of that group. I have been studying millionaires to duplicate what they did. Get your own personal millionaire mentor and study them. Most rich people are extremely generous with their knowledge and their resources.

  Grant Cardone

  Class, Ideas, People

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• The Poor Peasants' Committees are necessary to fight the kulaks, the rich, the exploiters, who shackle the working peasants.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Fighting, Poor, Shackles

  "Draft Of Telegram To All Soviets Of Deputies Concerning The Worker-Peasant Alliance". Collected Works, Volume 28, p. 58, www.marxists.org.

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• When you're rich, you don't have friends; you just have endless acquaintances.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Endless, Acquaintance

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “I Will Fear No Evil”, p.309, Penguin

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• Obviously, the faster we process information, the more rich and complex our models or glosses - our reality-tunnels - will become.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Reality, Tunnels, Information

  Robert Anton Wilson (1990). “Quantum Psychology: How Brain Software Programs You and Your World”, New Falcon Publications

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• But colonialism in its harshest forms is not only the exploitation of new nations by old, of dark skins by light, or the subjugation of the poor by the rich. My Nation was once a colony,
  and we know what colonialism means; the exploitation and subjugation of the weak by the powerful, of the many by the few, of the governed who have given no consent to be governed, whatever
  their continent, their class, their color.

  John F. Kennedy

  Powerful, Mean, Dark

  Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 25 September 1961

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• Poverty, we may say, surrounds a man with ready-made barriers, which if they do mournfully gall and hamper, do at least prescribe for him, and force on him, a sort of course and goal; a safe and beaten, though a circuitous, course. A great part of his guidance is secure against fatal error, is withdrawn from his control. The rich, again, has his whole life to guide, without goal or barrier, save of his own choosing, and, tempted, is too likely to guide it ill.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Life, Men, Errors

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.406, Cambridge University Press

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• We honor the rich because they have externally the freedom, power, and grace which we feel to be proper to man, proper to us.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Grace, Honor

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Jean Ferguson Carr (1987). “The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.5, Harvard University Press

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• He is the rich man in whom the people are rich, and he is the poor man in whom the people are poor; and how to give access to themasterpieces of art and nature, is the problem of civilization.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Men, Civilization

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.367

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• Government exists to defend the weak and the poor and the injured party; the rich and the strong can better take care of themselves.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, Party, Government

  Address delivered on the anniversary of the emancipation of the negroes in the British West Indies, Concord, Mass., 1 Aug. 1844

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• Not the rich viol, trump, cymbal, nor horn,
  Guitar, nor cittern, nor the pining flute,
  Are half so sweet as tender human words.

  Bryan Procter

  Music, Sweet, Guitar

  Bryan Waller Procter (1857). “Dramatic Scenes ; with Other Poems Now First Printed”, p.218

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• Sombre and rich, the skies;
  Great glooms, and starry plains.
  Gently the night wind sighs;
  Else a vast silence reigns.

  Lionel Johnson

  Night, Wind, Sky

  Lionel Pigot Johnson, “By The Statue Of King Charles At Charing Cross”

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• Wherever we press beyond the thin curtain of rationalist culture, we discover the incredibly rich, erotic, scary, promising presence of this intelligent Other, that beckons us out of history, and says, you know: 'The galaxy lies waiting.'

  Terence McKenna

  Lying, Intelligent, Waiting

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• The evidence is unequivocal, there's a great deal more luck than skill in people getting very rich.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Skills, People, Luck

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