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• How wealthy the gods would be if we remembered the promises we made when we were in danger.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Promise, Would Be, Danger

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• Wealthy people understand we're one America, and we do best when we're all together.

  Joe Biden

  America, People, Together

  "Full video and transcript: Rachel Maddow interviews Vice President Joe Biden". Interview with Rachel Maddow, www.msnbc.com. February 18, 2016.

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• Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you'll have a trust fund. Maybe you'll have a wealthy spouse. But you never know when either of them might run out.

  Mary Schmich

  Trust, Running, Support You

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• Seven wealthy towns contend for Homer dead, Through which the living Homer begged his bread

  Thomas Seward

  Speech, Bread, Towns

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• Breezy journalistic sentences about wealthy white people unaware that other human beings are real became the rubber stamp product of the elite MFA programs.

  Sarah Schulman

  Real, White, People

  Sarah Schulman (2012). “The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination”, p.104, Univ of California Press

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• Tennis was a game invented by a woman named Samantha Tennis in 1839, in the village of Lobsworth, County of Kent, as a diversion for the wealthy and titled Englishmen of the region, who had nothing better to do at the time but drink, belch and wear funny clothes.

  Dan Jenkins

  Games, Clothes, Tennis

  Dan Jenkins (2015). “"YOU CALL IT SPORTS, BUT I SAY IT'S A JUNGLE OUT THERE!"”, p.301, Simon and Schuster

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• Well, PZ Myers, Jen McCreight, Phil Plait, Amanda Marcotte, Greg Laden, Melissa McEwan and others have all already said it, but I figured I should post this for the record: yes, Richard Dawkins believes I should be a good girl and just shut up about being sexually objectified because it doesn’t bother him. Thanks, wealthy old heterosexual white man!

  Rebecca Watson

  Girl, Believe, Men

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• Entrepreneursh ip is a great leveller, since having the benefit of a wealthy background or a generous investor isn't always an advantage. The wonderful thing is that money is not the sole currency when it comes to starting a business; drive, determination, passion and hard work are all free and more valuable than a pot of cash.

  Richard Branson

  Determination, Hard Work, Passion

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• I think I'm getting wealthy in ways that don't count at the bank.

  Gerry Lopez

  Thinking, Way

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• You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom.

  Adrian Rogers

  Bbq, Other Half, Poor

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• Imagine living in abject poverty and not knowing anything other than that for generations. Or alternatively, imagine being born into a really wealthy family, but there was no real love. Everyone's living these extraordinary, interesting lives whether they know it or not.

  Annie Lennox

  Real, Knowing, Interesting

  "Annie Lennox: Music + Passion + Freedom". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• We're not a democracy. It's a terrible misunderstandin g and a slander to the idea of democracy to call us that. In reality, we're a plutocracy: a government by the wealthy.

  Ramsey Clark

  Reality, Government, Ideas

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• We do not ask more of the wealthy to punish success. We do it to create more success stories.

  Bill de Blasio

  Stories, Asks, Success Stories

  "NY mayor plans to address social inequity". "AM" with Michael Vincent, www.abc.net.au. January 2, 2014.

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• This is going to be a difficult few hundred years. No matter what we do, we have to give up some of the advantages of the wealthy Western nations and help out people who are less fortunate. That is the key. I think we can do it if we have more compassion for one another.

  Walter Munk

  Giving Up, Thinking, Compassion

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• At the same time, Republicans are pushing a $70 billion tax package that will overwhelmingly benefit the most wealthy Americans and actually increases the deficit by $16 billion.

  Marty Meehan

  Benefits, Pushing, Republican

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• One of the things we learned from that panel is the way poor communities use a library is very different from wealthy communities. But the way the library books are measured are by how many books are taken out. And people in poor communities sometimes won't take the book out because they're afraid to. They're afraid of losing it and not being able to replace it.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Book, Taken, People

  "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. 2008.

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• A wealthy man is one who earns $100 a year more than his wife's sister's husband.

  H. L. Mencken

  Husband, Men, Years

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• I am going in now for interior decoration. By that I mean supplying objets d'art and giving advice regarding the decoration of their houses to wealthy persons who do not have the time, inclination, nor culture to do such work for themselves. It is nothing new. Women have done the same thing before.

  Elsie de Wolfe

  Art, Mean, Giving

  Penny Sparke, Elsie De Wolfe (2005). “Elsie De Wolfe: The Birth of Modern Interior Decoration”, Acanthus PressLlc

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• I am working right at both the levels- with the most wealthy clients in the world, but also the poorest. I spend half my time designing for people that have nothing.

  William McDonough

  People, Design, Half

  Source: www.triplepundit.com

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• If you have potato chips, that means, "Who's coming over?"Wealthy people - white people who're wealthy - have a bag of potato chips that's folded over with a clip. "What? There's some left over?" In my house, if there was a bag of potato chips, we'd pour it in a bowl and everybody would just dip in till it was gone.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Mean, White, People

  "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. September 28, 2006.

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• I found a nanny/child care position in Beverly Hills taking care of a 3-year-old and a 17-year-old. They had a large, wealthy house. I learned that I liked the way rich people lived. I learned that they were not smarter than me.

  Mark Burnett

  Children, Years, People

  "Mark Burnett Started His Career Jumping Out Of Airplanes And Transporting Prisoners On Ships" by Stephen Chao, www.businessinsider.com. April 21, 2011.

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• I was travelling with Bruce Sterling on our mutual Difference Engine tour and he became aware from the experience of travelling with me that I would distinguish among the shoes in a perfectly normal fashion, but form him it was a revelation. There's a very lyrical passage in Holy Fire about old wealthy European men and their shoes, and how beautiful their shoes are, and how there have never been shoes as beautiful. I think that that was probably as close as Bruce will ever get to homage in my direction. I made him aware of footwear fashion.

  William Gibson

  Beautiful, Fashion, Men

  Source: craphound.com

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• Great people in the United States have been disenfranchised.I'll give you an example, it has always been the way to do it, to work hard, save your money, put your money in the bank, get interest on your money and retire wealthy, at least modestly wealthy. Well, the people that have done that have been hurt terribly because there is no interest on your money. You get no money. I just signed for some CDs where you are getting a quarter of one percent. A quarter of one percent! They don't even want your money, the banks.

  Donald Trump

  Hurt, Hard Work, Cds

  Source: www.economist.com

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• One of the things that even wealthy children need is an education, and I think the problems I saw really have nothing to do with economics. So I was unhappy with what my own children were getting even in the better schools, and then I was seeing so many children here recruited for failure.

  Marva Collins

  Children, School, Thinking

  Source: reason.com

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• I want to reduce America's deficit by cutting spending that we don't need but also by asking the wealthy to do a little bit more so that we can invest in things like research and technology that are the key to a 21st century economy.

  Barack Obama

  Cutting, Technology, Keys

  Source: genius.com

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