rich

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caccadf	You are not rich until you have a rich heart.	rich-heart inspiration inspirational-quotes inspire life-quotes living optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking optimism heart life inspirational richness rich	Roy T. Bennett
82f755d	A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.	wealth let-alone rich natural	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.	poverty rich poor mental-illness	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.	love attraction ernest-hemingway 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 truth self-care rich	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.	foresight wealthy environment civilization realization rich isolation consequences insight	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.	wealth rich-man money-quotes rich-and-poor wealthy rich-people simple simplicity rich	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'.	the-grapes-of-wrath rich poor	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!	war hate history fun books uncaring classism starving history-repeating-itself cave bombs forgotten rich poor mistakes ignorance	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.	equality refinement wealthy rich culture guilt	Orhan Pamuk
5b04f32	One thing's sure and nothing surer. The rich get richer and the poor get- children	social-classes rich poor	Ron Rash
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 the-diamond-as-big-as-the-ritz rich poor	F. Scott Fitzgerald
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." --	wealth good rich	Jonathan Harr
90843a9	The rich can afford to be progressive. Poor people have reason to be afraid of the future.	rich poor	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.	poverty wealth rich poor	George Saunders
cce4ac1	"[Free trade agreements] are trade agreements that don't	socialism politics brilliant bush corporatocracy coup-d-état democratic dictator free-trade gore green-party inefficiency lincoln nader reform protectionism ralph-nader transparency intelligent washington progressive corporations terrorism corruption rich obama genius jefferson government fascism capitalism communism	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?	thief repentance rich sin	G.K. Chesterton
f69f568	Maybe that was what millions could do-- nail a satisfied smirk to one's face.	money millionaire petals-on-the-wind rich-people rich smirk	V.C. Andrews
f08a3cb	n lthr lys Gy@ ljmy`	rich novel	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.	wealth squalor rich	Norman Mailer
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."	unhappiness rich	John Fowles
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."	illusion gatsbypoor school-teacher rich	Alison Bechdel
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.	money integrity honesty rich	Margaret Peterson Haddix
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.	politics rich poor government	Caitlin Moran
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.	wastefulness electricity energy rich waste	Chuck Palahniuk
937fd2b	It was frightening to realize how fast things could go wrong.	friendship tragic rich emotions surprise	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.	greed nuclear fix environment terrorism rich sun heat nice	Rebecca McNutt
ee44cbb	You need to wake yourself up and take a grab at life. No one is going to hand it to you.	friendship tragic rich emotions surprise	Danielle Steel
e38f760	It was the cruelest of destiny's tricks, the death of a young person.	family friendship tragic rich emotions surprise	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.	happy fun happiness damaged harass inefficient pay longings monotony slow cry worry rich society job	Jean Rhys
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 v-c-andrews rich poor	V.C. Andrews
f23379a	Hang in. We'll make it. We all have each other.	family tragic friendships rich emotions surprise	Danielle Steel
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.	eighties class rich poor society england technology	Paul Theroux
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.	rich government	Howard Zinn
83c7c74	Some people are just different, even in the same family.	family friendship tragic rich emotions surprise	Danielle Steel
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
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.	wealth rich misery	Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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.	war politics rich poor	Kate Horsley

You are not rich until you have a rich heart.

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

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.

wealth let-alone rich natural

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.

poverty rich poor mental-illness

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?"

money rich

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.

love attraction ernest-hemingway 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 truth self-care rich

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.

foresight wealthy environment civilization realization rich isolation consequences insight

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

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

wealth rich-man money-quotes rich-and-poor wealthy rich-people simple simplicity rich

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'.

the-grapes-of-wrath rich poor

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!

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

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.

equality refinement wealthy rich culture guilt

Orhan Pamuk

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

social-classes rich poor

Ron Rash

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

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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." --

wealth good rich

Jonathan Harr

90843a9

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

rich poor

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.

poverty wealth rich poor

George Saunders

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

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

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?

thief repentance rich sin

G.K. Chesterton

f69f568

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

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

V.C. Andrews

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n lthr lys Gy@ ljmy`

rich novel

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.

wealth squalor rich

Norman Mailer

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."

unhappiness rich

John Fowles

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."

illusion gatsbypoor school-teacher rich

Alison Bechdel

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.

money integrity honesty rich

Margaret Peterson Haddix

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.

politics rich poor government

Caitlin Moran

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.

wastefulness electricity energy rich waste

Chuck Palahniuk

937fd2b

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

friendship tragic rich emotions surprise

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.

greed nuclear fix environment terrorism rich sun heat nice

Rebecca McNutt

ee44cbb

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

friendship tragic rich emotions surprise

Danielle Steel

e38f760

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

family friendship tragic rich emotions surprise

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.

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

Jean Rhys

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 v-c-andrews rich poor

V.C. Andrews

f23379a

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

family tragic friendships rich emotions surprise

Danielle Steel

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.

eighties class rich poor society england technology

Paul Theroux

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.

rich government

Howard Zinn

83c7c74

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

family friendship tragic rich emotions surprise

Danielle Steel

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

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.

wealth rich misery

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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.

war politics rich poor

Kate Horsley