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• The poor complain that they are governed badly. The rich complain that they are governed at all.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Complaining, Poor

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• I am the rich man's guru.

  Rajneesh

  Men, Guru, Rich Man

  "The Last Testament: Interviews with the World Press". Book by Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, 1986.

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• Love all the seasons, because every season has its own treasures! Winter does not own the treasures of the spring; the spring does not own the treasures of the winter! If you know only the autumn, you are poor; if you know only the summer, you are poor! To be rich, love all the seasons and live all the seasons! Wise man is the one who knows all the treasures of all the seasons!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Love, Summer, Wise

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• Every time thief steals, he steals from his own peace, from his own honour! No man is as poor as a rich thief!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Peace, Men, Thieves

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• If thou be rich, strive to command thy money, lest it command thee.

  Francis Quarles

  Strive, Thee, Command

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• If thou desire not to be poor, desire not to be too rich. He is rich, not that possesses much, but he that covets no more; and he is poor, not that enjoys little, but he that wants too much. The contented mind wants nothing which it hath not; the covetous mind wants, not only what it hath not, but likewise what it hath.

  Francis Quarles

  Mind, Desire, Want

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.33

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• People getting rich in a free society in general - with some scammy exceptions, which are rare - makes everyone else richer, too.

  Ben Stein

  People, Exception, Free Society

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• I'd hate to see any descendants of mine fall into the category of what I'd call 'idle rich' - a group I've never had much use for.

  Sam Walton

  Hate, Fall, Use

  Sam Walton (2012). “Sam Walton: Made In America”, p.98, Bantam

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• Every girl would like to marry a rich husband. I did twice. But what divides girls into two groups is this question - do you first think of money and then love, or vice versa?

  Hedy Lamarr

  Girl, Husband, Thinking

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• People are experience-rich and theory-poor. I help people organize / make sense of their experiences.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  People, Helping, Poor

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• With iron and blood, it seems, and from the rich depths of the earth, John Griswold has fashioned a classic American novel, its dignified intonations of our young nation's sweat and tears evocative of the indelible storytelling of Dos Passos, Frank Norris, and Upton Sinclair.

  Bob Shacochis

  Blood, Sweat, Iron

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• When you assess your own life, consider it with the eye of a gardener. Underneath the surface lies rich, fertile soil waiting to nurture the seeds you sow. Even more than you can imagine will grow there if given a chance.

  Steve Goodier

  Lying, Eye, Waiting

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• Conservation is sometimes perceived as stopping everything cold, as holding whooping cranes in higher esteem than people. It is up to science to spread the understanding that the choice is not between wild places or people, it is between a rich or an impoverished existence for Man.

  Thomas Lovejoy

  Men, Wild Places, People

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• The real work of planet-saving will be small, humble, and humbling, and (insofar as it involves love) pleasing and rewarding. Its jobs will be too many to count, too many to report, too many to be publicly noticed or rewarded, too small to make anyone rich or famous.

  Wendell Berry

  Jobs, Real, Humble

  Wendell Berry (1993). “Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community: Eight Essays”, Pantheon

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• We can just as easily have an economy that is based on healing the future instead of stealing it. We can either create assets for the future or take the assets of the future. One is called restoration and the other exploitation. And whenever we exploit the earth we exploit people and cause untold suffering. Working for the earth is not a way to get rich, it is a way to be rich.

  Paul Hawken

  Healing, People, Suffering

  "You are Brilliant, and the Earth is Hiring" by Paul Hawken, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 2, 2014.

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• Yes, the South-becoming always poorer-and the North-becoming always richer ...Richer, too in the resources of weapons with which the superpowers and blocs can mutually threaten each other. In the light of Christ's words (Mt. 25), this poor South will judge the rich North. And the poor people and poor nations-poor in different ways, not only lacking food, but also deprived of freedom and other human right-will judge those people who take these goods away from them, amassing to themselves the imperialist monopoly and political supremacy at the expense of others.

  Pope John Paul II

  Light, Judging, People

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• The issue of world environment has a special kind of urgency... The issue is one of rich peoples and poor peoples, of the growing gap between the two, and of the rich fouling their own nests.

  Gilbert F. White

  Two, Issues, Special

  Gilbert F. White (1986). “Geography, Resources and Environment, Volume 1: Selected Writings of Gilbert F. White”, p.289, University of Chicago Press

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• While the rich reap most of the benefits of technological development, the poor bear an unequal burden of dealing with the consequences of the resulting increased pollution. The poor continue to live in greatest proximity to the sources of pollution, the infrastructure and machinery of industry. They work in the most polluted and physically dangerous workplaces. And these same individuals, living and working closest to the sources of environmental catastrophe, are also the ones most lacking decent health care.

  James H. Cone

  Technological Development, Environmental, Bears

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• The man who is rich in fancy thinks that his wagon is already built; poor fool, he does not know that there are a hundred timbers to a wagon.

  Hesiod

  Men, Thinking, Doe

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• My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Tongue, Weak

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Isaac Reed, William Hazlitt (1852). “The Works of William Shakspeare”, p.488

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• We commonly say that the rich man can speak the truth, can afford honesty, can afford independence of opinion and action;--and that is the theory of nobility. But it is the rich man in a true sense, that is to say, not the man of large income and large expenditure, but solely the man whose outlay is less than his income and is steadily kept so.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Honesty, Men, Independence

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.675, Modern Library

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• A tough will counts. So does desire.So does a rich soft wanting.Without rich wanting nothing arrives.

  Carl Sandburg

  Desire, Doe, Tough

  Carl Sandburg (2015). “The People, Yes”, p.26, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• My goal is that we should have a rich engagement online that caters to a general and scholarly audience and that can provide a seamless experience for people, whether they are up the road or on the other side of the world.

  Thomas P. Campbell

  Should Have, People, Goal

  "Thomas Campbell: master of the Met". Interview with Charlotte Higgins, www.theguardian.com. October 3, 2010.

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• A single thought can revolutionize your life as it did mine. A single thought can make you rich or it can land you in prison for the rest of your life.

  Earl Nightingale

  Land, Rest Of Your Life, Prison

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• I don't know your story or your dreams or the things that steal your sleep, but I know they matter. I hope you story is rich with characters, rich with friends and conversation. I hope you know some people who carry you, and I hope you have the honor of carrying them. I hope that there's beauty in your memories, and I hope it doesn't haunt you. And if it does, then I hope there is someone who will walk you through the night and remind you of the promise of the sunrise, that beauty keeps coming, that there are futures worth waiting and fighting for, and that you were made to dream.

  Jamie Tworkowski

  Dream, Memories, Character

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