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“During the last quarter of a century all the authority associated with the function of spiritual guidance ... has seeped down into the lowest publications. ... Between a poem by Valéry and an advertisement for a beauty cream promising a rich marriage to anyone who used it there was at no point a breach of continuity. So as a result of literature's spiritual usurpation a beauty cream advertisement possessed, in the eyes of little village girls, the authority that was formerly attached to the words of priests.”

“It's an irony that growing inequality could mean more money for philanthropy. In the US, quite a few of the ultra-rich have taken to heart the 19th century industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie's comment that it's a disgrace to die wealthy.”

Heart Mean Dies Rich Taken Growing Century Inequality Irony Wealthy Comment More Money Philanthropy Disgrace 19th Century Andrew Philanthropist Ultras Carnegie

Author:Geoff Mulgan

“The apartments of the rich are cabinets of curiosities: a conglomeration of classical antiquity, gothic, renaissance; Louis XIII... Something from every century but our own, a predicament that has arisen in no other period... so that we seem to be subsisting on the ruins of the past, as if the end of the world were near.”

Ifs World Ends Seems Past Rich Century Periods Curiosity Ruins Apartment End Of The World Gothic Renaissance Cabinets Antiquity Predicaments

Author:Alfred de Musset

“The greatest trick the rich - and their cheerleaders on the right - ever pulled was convincing the world that class didn't exist. Out here in the real world, it is more real and more rigid than it has been for a century.”

World Has Beens Real Class Rich Century Tricks Real World Convincing Cheerleader

Author:Johann Hari

“Lemberger's stories are marvelous compounds of scholarship, imagination and empathy. Brought to life with rich historical detail, these biblical women, sidelined and silenced for centuries, prove to be audacious, utterly relatable, and spellbinding companions.”

Stories Imagination Rich Century Prove Empathy Historical Details Companion Biblical Marvelous Relatable Scholarship Compounds Audacious

Author:Michelle Huneven

“the distinction between rich nations and poor nations is one of the great dominant political and international themes of our century.”

Political Nations Poor Rich Century International Theme Distinction Dominant Rich And Poor Poor Nations

Author:Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

“And the art was in every corner and wall... a Mural of the Century of Progress in Colombia South America is rich in detail, painted by a student of the Fine Arts Academy of Chicago named Santiago Martinez; a name to remember.”

Art America Remember Names Rich Progress Century Students Wall Fine South Details Corners Chicago Academy Fine Arts Colombia South America Mural Santiago

Author:Santiago Martinez Delgado

“The plodding thrift and scrupulous integrity and long-winded patient industry of our business men of the last century are out of fashion in these "giddy-paced" times, and England is forgetting that those who make haste to be rich can hardly avoid much temptation and some sin.”

Source: Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters, Forming a Sequel to Record of a Girlhood, and Records of Later Life

“[Thomas Henry] Huxley, I believe, was the greatest Englishman of the Nineteenth Century—perhaps the greatest Englishman of all time. When one thinks of him, one thinks inevitably of such men as Goethe and Aristotle. For in him there was that rich, incomparable blend of intelligence and character, of colossal knowledge and high adventurousness, of instinctive honesty and indomitable courage which appears in mankind only once in a blue moon. There have been far greater scientists, even in England, but there has never been a scientist who was a greater man.”

“A strange effect of marriage, such as the nineteenth century has made it! The boredom of married life inevitably destroys love, when love has preceded marriage. And yet, as a philosopher has observed, it speedily brings about, among people who are rich enough not to have to work, an intense boredom with all quiet forms of enjoyment. And it is only dried up hearts, among women, that it does not predispose to love.”

Source: The Red and the Black: World Classics

“The heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house. Buildings become furniture, courtyards become carpets and arrases, the streets are like galleries, the boulevards conservatories. It is a house, one or two centuries old, rich, bourgeois, distinguished. The only way of going out, or shutting the door behind you, is to leave the centre.”

Source: Keeping a Rendezvous

“The centuries will burn rich loads With which we groaned, Whose warmth shall lull their dreaming lids, While songs are crooned: But they will not dream of us poor lads, Left in the ground.”

Dream Time Song Left Poor Rich Century Warmth Load Lad Lulls

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Wilfred Owen (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Wilfred Owen (Illustrated)

“Ho Kyuns poetry is in the tradition of his master, the incomparable Tu Fu, while remaining fully his own. Writing nine centuries later, Hos poetry strikes many parallels--the experiences of war and exile and constant struggle-- and his voice is similarly humane. This is rich and enlightening reading.”

Writing War Reading Voice Struggle Rich Century Masters Tradition Constant Strikes Nine Poetry Is Exile Parallels Humane Enlightening Incomparable Constant Struggle

Author:Sam Hamill

“Who of us would not be glad to lift the veil behind which the future lies hidden; to cast a glance at the next advances of our science and at the secrets of its development during future centuries? What particular goals will there be toward which the leading mathematical spirits of coming generations will strive? What new methods and new facts in the wide and rich field of mathematical thought will the new centuries disclose?”

Facts Spirit Lying Next Goal Secret Behinds Rich Generations Century Fields Particular Development Method Strive Casts Wide Glad Mathematical Lifts Glances Veils

Author:David Hilbert

“Rich people are so eccentric, and I don't think people really realize. Especially by the turn of the century, they were living like rappers.”

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Author:Riki Lindhome

“Can our culture be reclaimed? How can we stay free in the next century? While people of other countries have been restricted m to pursue prosperity, bounded only by the limits of his or her imagination. Besides, only a conservative would ask how we can STAY prosperous and free in the 21st century. A liberal would whine that only a few are prosperous-the evil rich who have somehow gotten rich off the backs of the poor.”

People Has Beens Country Culture Evil Next Asks Imagination Poor Rich Century Limits Conservative Prosperity Pursue Other Countries 21st Century Prosperous

Author:Rush Limbaugh