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“I think that everyone is saying all kinds of things about 'rich.' Not only am I rich from doing some of things I've been able to do, but I'm rich in spirit. I'm rich in health. I'm rich in every way possible.”

Thinking Way Kind Able Spirit Rich All Kinds

Author:NeNe Leakes

“Being rich and famous has never been my goal at all. I love to act and I want to be able to do really great parts.”

Want Able Goal Rich Really Great Being Rich

Author:Jenn Proske

“The ruling class is the rich. . . . And those people are so able to manipulate our democracy that they really control the democracy.”

People Able Political Class Democracy Rich Ruling Manipulate

Author:Walter Cronkite

“To you, being rich might mean owning a goat farm in South Carolina. For your best friend, it might mean being able to start her own business selling wine over the Internet. Whatever the case, youre probably not motivated by the money itself, but by what the money could let you be and do.”

Mean Might Able Cases Rich Internet Wine South Selling Motivated Farms Goats Carolina Own Business Your Best Friend Being Rich South Carolina

Book:Your Money: The Missing Manual

Source: Your Money: The Missing Manual

“I ask you to forgive me for not fulfilling some hopes of those people who believed that we would be able to jump from the totalitarian past into a bright, rich and civilized future in one go.”

People Would Be Able Past Asks Rich Forgiving Civilized Fulfilling Forgive Me

Author:Boris Yeltsin

“I suppose that the main benefit of being rich (over just being independent) is to be able to despise rich people (a good concentration of whom you find in glitzy ski resorts) without any sour grapes. It is even sweeter when these farts don't know that you are richer than they are.”

People Knows Able Rich Benefits Independent Concentration Despise Just Being Resorts Rich People Grapes Sour Fart Skis Being Rich Sour Grapes

Book:Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

“What is it to be rich? It is to have an assured income in excess of expenditures, and to have no occasion for anxiety for the morrow. It is to be above the necessity of living from hand to mouth. It is to be able (or to have grounds to insanely suppose one's self to be able) to live outside of God's providence.”

Self Hands Able Wealth Rich Anxiety Mouths Income Occasions Excess Providence Assured Morrow Expenditures

Book:A Letter to the Rev. Henry W. Foote, Minister of King's Chapel, in Vindication of the Poorer Class of the Boston Working-women

Source: A Letter to the Rev. Henry W. Foote, Minister of King's Chapel, in Vindication of the Poorer Class of the Boston Working-women

“How would we feel if you could pay extra to smoke on airplanes? When we decide something is a bad idea in general for society, we don't want the rich to be able to buy their way out of it.”

Ifs Way Want Feels Ideas Able Pay Rich Smoke Extras Airplane Bad Ideas

Author:Peter Gleick

“Nine-tenths of the people are at present freeholders... The time is not distant when this country will abound with mechanics and manufacturers who will receive their bread from their employers. Will such men be the secure and faithful guardians of liberty? Give the votes to people who have no property, and they will sell them to the rich who will be able to buy them.”

People Men Giving Country Wisdom Able Politics Liberty Economy Rich Vote Sells Property Nine Bread Secure Faithful Liberalism Mechanic Guardian Employers

Author:Gouverneur Morris

“Being very rich as far as I am concerned is having a margin. The margin is being able to give.”

Giving Able Wealth Rich Concerned Margins

Book:Journal of a Solitude

Source: Journal of a Solitude