“Sports biography at its best. Rich in period detail, anecdote, and fresh perspective, Strong Boy paints both the good and the bad sides of success, as America's growing celebrity culture turned a simple Irish American gladiator into a national, in fact international hero. A very human story with profound parallels for our sports-obsessed culture today!” HumansFactsStoriesTodayAmericaCultureStrongSportsSidesSimpleBoysRichGrowingPerspectiveHeroPeriodsProfoundPaintInternationalDetailsObsessedBiographiesParallelsAnecdotesCelebrity Culture Author:Nigel Hamilton
“In capitalist society we have a democracy that is curtailed, wretched, false, a democracy only for the rich, for the minority. The dictatorship of the proletariat, the period of transition to communism, will for the first time create democracy for the people, for the majority, along with the necessary suppression of the exploiters, of the minority.” PeopleFirstsDemocracyRichPeriodsFirst TimeMajorityCommunismMinoritiesTransitionCapitalistDictatorshipWretchedSuppressionProletariat Author:Vladimir Lenin
“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.” IfsWorldEndsSeemsPastRichCenturyPeriodsCuriosityRuinsApartmentEnd Of The WorldGothicRenaissanceCabinetsAntiquityPredicaments Author:Alfred de Musset
“When you become rich and famous and you get a lot of attention, very few people get to go through that cycle without having a hard time. Everybody in their lives has a hard period. I don't know anybody who's ever been alive who hasn't had like, heartbreak, despair, depression, death, drug or alcohol, or weight problems, or health problems.” PeopleKnowsHardProblemAttentionRichAlivePeriodsDrugDespairWeightAlcoholHard TimesCyclesBecome RichHealth ProblemsHaving A Hard TimeWeight Problems Author:Kelly Cutrone
“Liberals correctly perceive the Reagan record as their most dangerous enemy. Why? Because what happened during the 1980s - prosperity at home the longest period of peacetime growth in this nation's history, strength abroad - directly contradicts every liberal belief. Bill Clinton has confused many about the 1980s and the Reagan legacy. His patently false mantra states, "The rich got richer, the poor got poorer. The rich didn't pay their fair share, etc."” StatesHomeBeliefNationsGrowthPoorPayEnemyRichRecordsHappenedShareDangerousDangerPeriodsFairsBillsClintonProsperityLegacyPerceiveConfusedEtcMantrasFair Share Author:Rush Limbaugh
“It's always been the case that you have the really rich, and the really poor. But hey, look, all the great empires have their periods where they rule the world, and then they crumble.” WorldLooksPoorCasesRichPeriodsHeyEmpiresGreat Empires Author:Mickey Rourke
“You don't have to have perfect wisdom to get very rich - just a bit better than average over a long period of time.” LongBitsPerfectRichPeriodsAverageLong Periods Of Time Author:Charlie Munger
“We have found ourselves in the period of "interregnum": the old works no more, the new is not yet born. But the awareness that without it being born we are all marked for demise, is already much alive, as is the awareness that the hard nut we must urgently crack is not the presence of "too many poor", but "too many rich".” HardFoundBornPoorRichAliveAwarenessPeriodsCracksNutsDemise Author:Zygmunt Bauman
“Some people say Russia is running at 50 percent of its gross domestic product under that during the Communist period. In fact, none of the countries seems to have recovered the level that they had under communism, although the other countries in Eastern Europe are doing better than Russia and particularly the Czech Republic seems to be doing modestly well. East Germany I can't count because they have a rich uncle. You have economic benefits which have nothing to do with the workings of the system.” PeopleWellsI CanCountryFactsSeemsRunningLevelsRichEconomicProductsPeriodsBenefitsPercentEuropeEastRussiaCommunismGermanyRepublicCommunistOther CountriesUnclesEasternGrossEastern EuropeCzechEast GermanyGross Domestic ProductCzech Republic Author:Kenneth Arrow