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caccadf	You are not rich until you have a rich heart.	heart inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-quotes living optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking rich rich-heart richness	Roy T. Bennett
82f755d	A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.	let-alone natural rich wealth	Henry David Thoreau
1f39723	I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely.	mental-illness poor poverty rich	Charles Bukowski
9dccba0	"Don't you ever mind," she asked suddenly, "not being rich enough to buy all the books you want?"	money rich	Edith Wharton
9fa81f5	When you have two people who love each other, are happy and gay and really good work is being done by one or both of them, people are drawn to them as surely as migrating birds are drawn at night to a powerful beacon. If the two people were as solidly constructed as the beacon there would be little damage except to the birds. Those who attract people by their happiness and their performance are usually inexperienced. They do not know how not to be overrun and how to go away. They do not always learn about the good, the attractive, the charming, the soon-beloved, the generous, the understanding rich who have no bad qualities and who give each day the quality of a festival and who, when they have passed and taken the nourishment they needed, leave everything deader than the roots of any grass Attila's horses' hooves have ever scoured.	attraction ernest-hemingway love rich	Ernest Hemingway
f481512	My mother always says people should be able to take care of themselves, even if they're rich and important.	people rich self-care truth	Frances Hodgson Burnett
5edd0cd	In much of the rest of the world, rich people live in gated communities and drink bottled water. That's increasingly the case in Los Angeles where I come from. So that wealthy people in much of the world are insulated from the consequences of their actions.	civilization consequences environment foresight insight isolation realization rich wealthy	Jared Diamond
8a2d133	There are many different ways to be poor in the world but increasingly there seems to be one single way to be rich.	rich	Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
b2d79ce	People who advocate simplicity have money in the bank; the money came first, not the simplicity.	money-quotes rich rich-and-poor rich-man rich-people simple simplicity wealth wealthy	Douglas Coupland
5ffdd4a	Why, Tom - us people will go on livin' when all them people is gone. Why, Tom, we're the people that live. They ain't gonna wipe us out. Why, we're the people - we go on.' 'We take a beatin' all the time.' 'I know.' Ma chuckled. 'Maybe that makes us tough. Rich fellas come up an' they die, an' their kids ain't no good, an' they die out. But, Tom, we keep a-comin'. Don' you fret none, Tom. A different time's comin'.	poor rich the-grapes-of-wrath	John Steinbeck
582a0a4	How in hell did those bombers get up there every single second of our lives! Why doesn't someone want to talk about it! We've started and won two atomic wars since 2022! Is it because we're having so much fun at home we've forgotten the world? Is it because we're so rich and the rest of the world's so poor and we just don't care if they are? I've heard rumors; the world is starving, but we're well fed. Is it true, the world works hard and we play? Is that why we're hated so much? I've heard the rumors about hate too, once in a long while, over the years. Do you know why? I don't, that's sure! Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damn insane mistakes!	bombs books cave classism forgotten fun hate history history-repeating-itself ignorance mistakes poor rich starving uncaring war	Ray Bradbury
55c3c4a	In Europe the rich are refined enough to act as if they're not wealthy. That is how civilized people behave. If you ask me, being cultured and civilized is not about everyone being free and equal; it's about everyone being refined enough to act as if they were. Then no one has to feel guilty.	culture equality guilt refinement rich wealthy	Orhan Pamuk
49985db	Then she added in a sort of childish delight: 'We'll be poor, won't we? Like people in books. And I'll be an orphan and utterly free. Free and poor! What fun!' She stopped and raised her lips to him in a delighted kiss. 'It's impossible to be both together,' said John grimly. 'People have found that out. And I should choose to be free as preferable of the two...	freedom poor rich the-diamond-as-big-as-the-ritz	F. Scott Fitzgerald
5b04f32	One thing's sure and nothing surer. The rich get richer and the poor get- children	poor rich social-classes	Ron Rash
a687392	"Rich and famous and doing good," mused Schlichtmann. "Rich isn't so difficult. Famous isn't so difficult. Rich and famous together aren't so difficult. Rich, famous, and doing good--now, that's very difficult." --	good rich wealth	Jonathan Harr
90843a9	The rich can afford to be progressive. Poor people have reason to be afraid of the future.	poor rich	Garrison Keillor
5cd1407	Do not really like rich people, as they make us poor people feel dopey and inadequate. Not that we are poor. I would say we are middle. We are very, very lucky. I know that. But still, it is not right that rich people make us middle people feel dopey and inadequate.	poor poverty rich wealth	George Saunders
cce4ac1	"[Free trade agreements] are trade agreements that don't	brilliant bush capitalism communism corporations corporatocracy corruption coup-d-état democratic dictator fascism free-trade genius gore government green-party inefficiency intelligent jefferson lincoln nader obama politics progressive protectionism ralph-nader reform rich socialism terrorism transparency washington	Ralph Nader
b7f7f1f	Father Brown got to his feet, putting his hands behind him. 'Odd, isn't it,' he said, 'that a thief and a vagabond should repent, when so many who are rich and secure remain hard and frivolous, and without fruit for God or man?	repentance rich sin thief	G.K. Chesterton
f69f568	Maybe that was what millions could do-- nail a satisfied smirk to one's face.	millionaire money petals-on-the-wind rich rich-people smirk	V.C. Andrews
f08a3cb	n lthr lys Gy@ ljmy`	novel rich	Jeffrey Archer
894637c	I tell you, say the rich, the poor are naught but dirty wind welling in air-shafts over the cinders and droppings of the past, their voices thick with grease and ordure, sewer-greed to corrode the ear with the horrors of the past and the voids of new stupidity. One could drown waiting for the poor to make one fine distinction. Yes, destroy us say the rich and you lose the roots of God.	rich squalor wealth	Norman Mailer
ea9fb60	"Gatsby's self-willed metamorphosis from farm boy to prince is many ways identical to my father's. Like Gatsby, my father fueled this transformation with the "colossal vitality of his illusion". Unlike Gatsby he did this on a school teacher's salary."	gatsbypoor illusion rich school-teacher	Alison Bechdel
211ee1e	"He stared to sea. "I gave up all ideas of practicing medicine. In spite of what I have just said about the wave and the water, in those years in France I am afraid I lived a selfish life. That is, I offered myself every pleasure. I traveled a great deal. I lost some money dabbling in the theatre, but I made much more dabbling on the Bourse. I gained a great many amusing friends, some of whom are now quite famous. But I was never very happy. I suppose I was fortunate. It took me only five years to discover what some rich people never discover -- that we all have a certain capacity for happiness and unhappiness. And that the economic hazards of life do not seriously affect it."	rich unhappiness	John Fowles
098d3dd	Most people couldn't be rich if they wanted to be honest; most people couldn't be honest if they wanted to be rich.	honesty integrity money rich	Margaret Peterson Haddix
d457d2f	Money gives you permission to just walk away from everything that isn't pretty and perfect. You can't put up with anything less than lovely. You spend your life running, avoiding, escaping.	money poor-in-spirit rich	Chuck Palahniuk
dd0ed90	My mom would spy by satellite, turning down the air conditioning, colder and colder, with a tapping keystroke via her wireless connection, chilling that house, that one room, meat locker cold, ski-slope cold, spending a king's ransom on Freon and electric power, trying to make some doomed ten bucks' worth of pretty pink flowers last one more day.	electricity energy rich waste wastefulness	Chuck Palahniuk
381549c	There's one big difference between the poor and the rich,' Kite says, taking a drag from his cigarette. We are in a pub, at lunch-time. John Kite is always, unless stated otherwise, smoking a fag, in a pub, at lunch-time. 'The rich aren't evil, as so many of my brothers would tell you. I've known rich people -- I have played on their yachts -- and they are not unkind, or malign, and they do not hate the poor, as many would tell you. And they are not stupid -- or at least, not any more than the poor are. Much as I find amusing the idea of a ruling class of honking toffs, unable to put their socks on without Nanny helping them, it is not true. They build banks, and broker deals, and formulate policy, all with perfect competency. 'No -- the big difference between the rich and the poor is that the rich are blithe. They believe nothing can ever really be so bad, They are born with the lovely, velvety coating of blitheness -- like lanugo, on a baby -- and it is never rubbed off by a bill that can't be paid; a child that can't be educated; a home that must be left for a hostel, when the rent becomes too much. 'Their lives are the same for generations. There is no social upheaval that will really affect them. If you're comfortably middle-class, what's the worst a government policy could do? Ever? Tax you at 90 per cent and leave your bins, unemptied, on the pavement. But you and everyone you know will continue to drink wine -- but maybe cheaper -- go on holiday -- but somewhere nearer -- and pay off your mortgage -- although maybe later. 'Consider, now, then, the poor. What's the worst a government policy can do to them? It can cancel their operation, with no recourse to private care. It can run down their school -- with no escape route to a prep. It can have you out of your house and into a B&B by the end of the year. When the middle-classes get passionate about politics, they're arguing about their treats -- their tax breaks and their investments. When the poor get passionate about politics, they're fighting for their lives. 'Politics will always mean more to the poor. Always. That's why we strike and march, and despair when our young say they won't vote. That's why the poor are seen as more vital, and animalistic. No classical music for us -- no walking around National Trust properties, or buying reclaimed flooring. We don't have nostalgia. We don't do yesterday. We can't bear it. We don't want to be reminded of our past, because it was awful; dying in mines, and slums, without literacy, or the vote. Without dignity. It was all so desperate, then. That's why the present and the future is for the poor -- that's the place in time for us: surviving now, hoping for better, later. We live now -- for our instant, hot, fast treats, to prep us up: sugar, a cigarette, a new fast song on the radio. 'You must never, never forget, when you talk to someone poor, that it takes ten times the effort to get anywhere from a bad postcode, It's a miracle when someone from a bad postcode gets anywhere, son. A miracle they do anything at all.	government politics poor rich	Caitlin Moran
ee44cbb	You need to wake yourself up and take a grab at life. No one is going to hand it to you.	emotions friendship rich surprise tragic	Danielle Steel
994dfd4	Well, let's argue this out, Mr Blank. You, who represent Society, have the right to pay me four hundred francs a month. That's my market value, for I am an inefficient member of Society, slow in the uptake, uncertain, slightly damaged in the fray, there's no denying it. So you have the right to pay me four hundred francs a month, to lodge me in a small, dark room, to clothe me shabbily, to harass me with worry and monotony and unsatisfied longings till you get me to the point when I blush at a look, cry at a word. We can't all be happy, we can't all be rich, we can't all be lucky - and it would be so much less fun if we were. Isn't it so, Mr Blank? There must be the dark background to show up the bright colours. Some must cry so that the others may be able to laugh the more heartily.	cry damaged fun happiness happy harass inefficient job longings monotony pay rich slow society worry	Jean Rhys
e38f760	It was the cruelest of destiny's tricks, the death of a young person.	emotions family friendship rich surprise tragic	Danielle Steel
937fd2b	It was frightening to realize how fast things could go wrong.	emotions friendship rich surprise tragic	Danielle Steel
999d312	Son, let me tell you a little something about the environment... you can try to fix it up all you want, but it's a waste of time. Sooner or later we'll all be doomed... slaughtered by terrorists, baked in the heat of the sun, nuked until our shadows glow... greed is good. We don't exist to help other people, we exist to grow the hell up, have kids, get old and die, while consuming all we can. Nothing comes after. There's no wrath, no day of reckoning... we just go. POOF! We have no reason to aspire to change the world, son. We'll thrive by feeding off of whatever's available. How else do you think we ended up rich? You don't get ahead by being nice, Thomas.	environment fix greed heat nice nuclear rich sun terrorism	Rebecca McNutt
f23379a	Hang in. We'll make it. We all have each other.	emotions family friendships rich surprise tragic	Danielle Steel
09731ea	Being rich and coming from a distinguished family background doesn't guarantee happiness, Abby. In fact, it might make happiness harder to find because you have to live up to akk that expectation.	happiness landry living-up-to-expectations pearl-in-the-mist poor rich v-c-andrews	V.C. Andrews
6efebbc	I said I didn't think it would be a collectivist state so much as a wilderness in which most people lived hand to mouth, and the rich would live like princes - better than the rich had ever lived, except that their lives would constantly be in danger from the hungry predatory poor. All the technology would serve the rich, but they would need it for their own protection and to assure their continued prosperity.	class eighties england poor rich society technology	Paul Theroux
83c7c74	Some people are just different, even in the same family.	emotions family friendship rich surprise tragic	Danielle Steel
ce92df0	When people get rich, they shed their skin-in-the-game-driven experiential mechanism. They lose control of their preferences, substituting constructed preferences for their own, complicating their lives unnecessarily, triggering their own misery.	misery rich wealth	Nassim Nicholas Taleb
7d8f459	",,Rozbojnicy" i ,,bandyci" to terminy od dawna stosowane przez bogatych (do ktorych z pewnoscia zaliczal sie Jozef [Flawiusz]) na okreslenie buntownikow sposrod obciazonych podatkami i zubozalych."	rich	Simon Schama
328da1e	In short, Beard said, the rich must, in their own interest, either control the government directly or control the laws by which government operates.	government rich	Howard Zinn
e2130e2	the greatest trick of kings is to fool the poor into thinking we have common cause with the rich simply because we live on the same bog. Then the poor get their heads split open in the battles they fight so the rich can keep their wine cellars well stocked.	politics poor rich war	Kate Horsley

You are not rich until you have a rich heart.

heart inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-quotes living optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking rich rich-heart richness

Roy T. Bennett

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A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.

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Henry David Thoreau

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I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely.

mental-illness poor poverty rich

Charles Bukowski

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"Don't you ever mind," she asked suddenly, "not being rich enough to buy all the books you want?"

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Edith Wharton

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When you have two people who love each other, are happy and gay and really good work is being done by one or both of them, people are drawn to them as surely as migrating birds are drawn at night to a powerful beacon. If the two people were as solidly constructed as the beacon there would be little damage except to the birds. Those who attract people by their happiness and their performance are usually inexperienced. They do not know how not to be overrun and how to go away. They do not always learn about the good, the attractive, the charming, the soon-beloved, the generous, the understanding rich who have no bad qualities and who give each day the quality of a festival and who, when they have passed and taken the nourishment they needed, leave everything deader than the roots of any grass Attila's horses' hooves have ever scoured.

attraction ernest-hemingway love rich

Ernest Hemingway

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My mother always says people should be able to take care of themselves, even if they're rich and important.

people rich self-care truth

Frances Hodgson Burnett

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In much of the rest of the world, rich people live in gated communities and drink bottled water. That's increasingly the case in Los Angeles where I come from. So that wealthy people in much of the world are insulated from the consequences of their actions.

civilization consequences environment foresight insight isolation realization rich wealthy

Jared Diamond

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There are many different ways to be poor in the world but increasingly there seems to be one single way to be rich.

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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People who advocate simplicity have money in the bank; the money came first, not the simplicity.

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Douglas Coupland

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Why, Tom - us people will go on livin' when all them people is gone. Why, Tom, we're the people that live. They ain't gonna wipe us out. Why, we're the people - we go on.' 'We take a beatin' all the time.' 'I know.' Ma chuckled. 'Maybe that makes us tough. Rich fellas come up an' they die, an' their kids ain't no good, an' they die out. But, Tom, we keep a-comin'. Don' you fret none, Tom. A different time's comin'.

poor rich the-grapes-of-wrath

John Steinbeck

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How in hell did those bombers get up there every single second of our lives! Why doesn't someone want to talk about it! We've started and won two atomic wars since 2022! Is it because we're having so much fun at home we've forgotten the world? Is it because we're so rich and the rest of the world's so poor and we just don't care if they are? I've heard rumors; the world is starving, but we're well fed. Is it true, the world works hard and we play? Is that why we're hated so much? I've heard the rumors about hate too, once in a long while, over the years. Do you know why? I don't, that's sure! Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damn insane mistakes!

bombs books cave classism forgotten fun hate history history-repeating-itself ignorance mistakes poor rich starving uncaring war

Ray Bradbury

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In Europe the rich are refined enough to act as if they're not wealthy. That is how civilized people behave. If you ask me, being cultured and civilized is not about everyone being free and equal; it's about everyone being refined enough to act as if they were. Then no one has to feel guilty.

culture equality guilt refinement rich wealthy

Orhan Pamuk

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Then she added in a sort of childish delight: 'We'll be poor, won't we? Like people in books. And I'll be an orphan and utterly free. Free and poor! What fun!' She stopped and raised her lips to him in a delighted kiss. 'It's impossible to be both together,' said John grimly. 'People have found that out. And I should choose to be free as preferable of the two...

freedom poor rich the-diamond-as-big-as-the-ritz

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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One thing's sure and nothing surer. The rich get richer and the poor get- children

poor rich social-classes

Ron Rash

a687392

"Rich and famous and doing good," mused Schlichtmann. "Rich isn't so difficult. Famous isn't so difficult. Rich and famous together aren't so difficult. Rich, famous, and doing good--now, that's very difficult." --

good rich wealth

Jonathan Harr

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The rich can afford to be progressive. Poor people have reason to be afraid of the future.

poor rich

Garrison Keillor

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Do not really like rich people, as they make us poor people feel dopey and inadequate. Not that we are poor. I would say we are middle. We are very, very lucky. I know that. But still, it is not right that rich people make us middle people feel dopey and inadequate.

poor poverty rich wealth

George Saunders

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"[Free trade agreements] are trade agreements that don't

brilliant bush capitalism communism corporations corporatocracy corruption coup-d-état democratic dictator fascism free-trade genius gore government green-party inefficiency intelligent jefferson lincoln nader obama politics progressive protectionism ralph-nader reform rich socialism terrorism transparency washington

Ralph Nader

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Father Brown got to his feet, putting his hands behind him. 'Odd, isn't it,' he said, 'that a thief and a vagabond should repent, when so many who are rich and secure remain hard and frivolous, and without fruit for God or man?

repentance rich sin thief

G.K. Chesterton

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Maybe that was what millions could do-- nail a satisfied smirk to one's face.

millionaire money petals-on-the-wind rich rich-people smirk

V.C. Andrews

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n lthr lys Gy@ ljmy`

novel rich

Jeffrey Archer

894637c

I tell you, say the rich, the poor are naught but dirty wind welling in air-shafts over the cinders and droppings of the past, their voices thick with grease and ordure, sewer-greed to corrode the ear with the horrors of the past and the voids of new stupidity. One could drown waiting for the poor to make one fine distinction. Yes, destroy us say the rich and you lose the roots of God.

rich squalor wealth

Norman Mailer

ea9fb60

"Gatsby's self-willed metamorphosis from farm boy to prince is many ways identical to my father's. Like Gatsby, my father fueled this transformation with the "colossal vitality of his illusion". Unlike Gatsby he did this on a school teacher's salary."

gatsbypoor illusion rich school-teacher

Alison Bechdel

211ee1e

"He stared to sea. "I gave up all ideas of practicing medicine. In spite of what I have just said about the wave and the water, in those years in France I am afraid I lived a selfish life. That is, I offered myself every pleasure. I traveled a great deal. I lost some money dabbling in the theatre, but I made much more dabbling on the Bourse. I gained a great many amusing friends, some of whom are now quite famous. But I was never very happy. I suppose I was fortunate. It took me only five years to discover what some rich people never discover -- that we all have a certain capacity for happiness and unhappiness. And that the economic hazards of life do not seriously affect it."

rich unhappiness

John Fowles

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Most people couldn't be rich if they wanted to be honest; most people couldn't be honest if they wanted to be rich.

honesty integrity money rich

Margaret Peterson Haddix

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Money gives you permission to just walk away from everything that isn't pretty and perfect. You can't put up with anything less than lovely. You spend your life running, avoiding, escaping.

money poor-in-spirit rich

Chuck Palahniuk

dd0ed90

My mom would spy by satellite, turning down the air conditioning, colder and colder, with a tapping keystroke via her wireless connection, chilling that house, that one room, meat locker cold, ski-slope cold, spending a king's ransom on Freon and electric power, trying to make some doomed ten bucks' worth of pretty pink flowers last one more day.

electricity energy rich waste wastefulness

Chuck Palahniuk

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There's one big difference between the poor and the rich,' Kite says, taking a drag from his cigarette. We are in a pub, at lunch-time. John Kite is always, unless stated otherwise, smoking a fag, in a pub, at lunch-time. 'The rich aren't evil, as so many of my brothers would tell you. I've known rich people -- I have played on their yachts -- and they are not unkind, or malign, and they do not hate the poor, as many would tell you. And they are not stupid -- or at least, not any more than the poor are. Much as I find amusing the idea of a ruling class of honking toffs, unable to put their socks on without Nanny helping them, it is not true. They build banks, and broker deals, and formulate policy, all with perfect competency. 'No -- the big difference between the rich and the poor is that the rich are blithe. They believe nothing can ever really be so bad, They are born with the lovely, velvety coating of blitheness -- like lanugo, on a baby -- and it is never rubbed off by a bill that can't be paid; a child that can't be educated; a home that must be left for a hostel, when the rent becomes too much. 'Their lives are the same for generations. There is no social upheaval that will really affect them. If you're comfortably middle-class, what's the worst a government policy could do? Ever? Tax you at 90 per cent and leave your bins, unemptied, on the pavement. But you and everyone you know will continue to drink wine -- but maybe cheaper -- go on holiday -- but somewhere nearer -- and pay off your mortgage -- although maybe later. 'Consider, now, then, the poor. What's the worst a government policy can do to them? It can cancel their operation, with no recourse to private care. It can run down their school -- with no escape route to a prep. It can have you out of your house and into a B&B by the end of the year. When the middle-classes get passionate about politics, they're arguing about their treats -- their tax breaks and their investments. When the poor get passionate about politics, they're fighting for their lives. 'Politics will always mean more to the poor. Always. That's why we strike and march, and despair when our young say they won't vote. That's why the poor are seen as more vital, and animalistic. No classical music for us -- no walking around National Trust properties, or buying reclaimed flooring. We don't have nostalgia. We don't do yesterday. We can't bear it. We don't want to be reminded of our past, because it was awful; dying in mines, and slums, without literacy, or the vote. Without dignity. It was all so desperate, then. That's why the present and the future is for the poor -- that's the place in time for us: surviving now, hoping for better, later. We live now -- for our instant, hot, fast treats, to prep us up: sugar, a cigarette, a new fast song on the radio. 'You must never, never forget, when you talk to someone poor, that it takes ten times the effort to get anywhere from a bad postcode, It's a miracle when someone from a bad postcode gets anywhere, son. A miracle they do anything at all.

government politics poor rich

Caitlin Moran

ee44cbb

You need to wake yourself up and take a grab at life. No one is going to hand it to you.

emotions friendship rich surprise tragic

Danielle Steel

994dfd4

Well, let's argue this out, Mr Blank. You, who represent Society, have the right to pay me four hundred francs a month. That's my market value, for I am an inefficient member of Society, slow in the uptake, uncertain, slightly damaged in the fray, there's no denying it. So you have the right to pay me four hundred francs a month, to lodge me in a small, dark room, to clothe me shabbily, to harass me with worry and monotony and unsatisfied longings till you get me to the point when I blush at a look, cry at a word. We can't all be happy, we can't all be rich, we can't all be lucky - and it would be so much less fun if we were. Isn't it so, Mr Blank? There must be the dark background to show up the bright colours. Some must cry so that the others may be able to laugh the more heartily.

cry damaged fun happiness happy harass inefficient job longings monotony pay rich slow society worry

Jean Rhys

e38f760

It was the cruelest of destiny's tricks, the death of a young person.

emotions family friendship rich surprise tragic

Danielle Steel

937fd2b

It was frightening to realize how fast things could go wrong.

emotions friendship rich surprise tragic

Danielle Steel

999d312

Son, let me tell you a little something about the environment... you can try to fix it up all you want, but it's a waste of time. Sooner or later we'll all be doomed... slaughtered by terrorists, baked in the heat of the sun, nuked until our shadows glow... greed is good. We don't exist to help other people, we exist to grow the hell up, have kids, get old and die, while consuming all we can. Nothing comes after. There's no wrath, no day of reckoning... we just go. POOF! We have no reason to aspire to change the world, son. We'll thrive by feeding off of whatever's available. How else do you think we ended up rich? You don't get ahead by being nice, Thomas.

environment fix greed heat nice nuclear rich sun terrorism

Rebecca McNutt

f23379a

Hang in. We'll make it. We all have each other.

emotions family friendships rich surprise tragic

Danielle Steel

09731ea

Being rich and coming from a distinguished family background doesn't guarantee happiness, Abby. In fact, it might make happiness harder to find because you have to live up to akk that expectation.

happiness landry living-up-to-expectations pearl-in-the-mist poor rich v-c-andrews

V.C. Andrews

6efebbc

I said I didn't think it would be a collectivist state so much as a wilderness in which most people lived hand to mouth, and the rich would live like princes - better than the rich had ever lived, except that their lives would constantly be in danger from the hungry predatory poor. All the technology would serve the rich, but they would need it for their own protection and to assure their continued prosperity.

class eighties england poor rich society technology

Paul Theroux

83c7c74

Some people are just different, even in the same family.

emotions family friendship rich surprise tragic

Danielle Steel

ce92df0

When people get rich, they shed their skin-in-the-game-driven experiential mechanism. They lose control of their preferences, substituting constructed preferences for their own, complicating their lives unnecessarily, triggering their own misery.

misery rich wealth

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

7d8f459

",,Rozbojnicy" i ,,bandyci" to terminy od dawna stosowane przez bogatych (do ktorych z pewnoscia zaliczal sie Jozef [Flawiusz]) na okreslenie buntownikow sposrod obciazonych podatkami i zubozalych."

rich

Simon Schama

328da1e

In short, Beard said, the rich must, in their own interest, either control the government directly or control the laws by which government operates.

government rich

Howard Zinn

e2130e2

the greatest trick of kings is to fool the poor into thinking we have common cause with the rich simply because we live on the same bog. Then the poor get their heads split open in the battles they fight so the rich can keep their wine cellars well stocked.

politics poor rich war

Kate Horsley