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“I don't begrudge rich people running for office. God knows that FDR and JFK both came from very wealthy families but I think did more to help impoverished Americans than anybody else.”

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Author:Julie Roginsky

“Rich people are the experimental ground for every new development. The nature of progress is that what begins as a luxury for the rich becomes a necessity for the poor as it's developed and passed on.”

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Author:Milton Friedman

“We don`t have a manufacturing base. We don`t have a middle-class jobs growing at all. All we have is a few rich people and a service industry to service them.”

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Author:Chris Hayes

“I wonder why rich people always grow fat I suppose it's because there's nothing to worry them.”

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Book:Delphi Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)

“The rich people are those who create wealth, and you have to treat them well so they continue to give wealth.”

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Author:Augusto Pinochet

“The Government cannot afford to have a country made up entirely of rich people, because rich people pay so little tax that the Government would quickly go bankrupt. This is why Government men always tell us that labor is man's noblest calling. Government needs labor to pay its upkeep.”

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Book:So this is depravity

Source: So this is depravity

“We were giving advice for the single-worst idea to come forward from a group that's been rife with them, it would be this: The idea is this: Let's make the tax code of America better for very rich people; let's give substantial tax relief to the richest people we can find. Forget about the person making $40,000 a year and paying Social Security payroll tax. Forget about all those other people paying income tax; we're here to give tax relief to the richest 2% of America.”

“We don't have a choice about Facebook any more. The choice element is less obvious than it seems. Maybe the 1bn poor people and a few hundred thousand rich people can afford not to be on it.. the rest of us don't have any choice.”

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Author:Andrew Keen

“Foreign aid goes from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.”

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Author:Rand Paul

“The bias against the show is purely elitist. We're all like the people on the show - the difference is that some of us speak better, or were born richer. There's nothing that happens on my show that rich people don't experience.”

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Author:Jerry Springer

“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.”

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Book:Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

“Rich people are poor people with money.”

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Author:George Orwell

“The ground is the symbol for the poor people; the poor people is gonna open up this whole world and swallow up the rich people. It's gonna be like - there might be some cannibalism out this mother. They might eat the rich.”

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Author:Tupac Shakur

“I don't use my money to gain political influence for my private interests, which is what many rich people do, and what, in a sense, market fundamentalism does, because it is in the interests of people who have a lot of money to have as little taxes as possible.”

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Author:George Soros

“Some folks call tennis a rich people's sport or a white person's game. I guess I started too early because I just thought it was something fun to do. Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis. You've got to make a lot of sacrifices and spend a lot of time if you really want to achieve with this sport, or in any sport, or in anything truly worthwhile.”

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Author:Arthur Ashe

“As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.”

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Author:Honore de Balzac

“for someone such as myself, who is kind of feckless and immature, it's better to have rich friends than to be rich yourself, because then you have wealth without the responsibility. You get to go to their houses, and you get acquainted with a level of furniture that you cannot provide for yourself. Furniture, I think is the most important attribute of rich people.”

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Author:Fran Lebowitz

“Being poor is like being a child. Being rich is like being an adult: you get to do whatever you want. Everyone is nice when they have to be; rich people are nice when they feel like it.”

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Author:Fran Lebowitz

“The United States Congress, like a lot of rich people, lives in two houses.”

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Author:John Green

“Rich people have the potential to reach a point where they see money as the source of their safety and security.”

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Author:Andy Stanley

“There are some rich people who, no matter how much God sends their way, never seem to put their hope in their riches.”

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Author:Andy Stanley

“No matter how much money we have or make, we will probably never consider ourselves rich. The biggest challenge facing rich people is that they've lost they're ability to recognize that they're rich.”

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Author:Andy Stanley

“I was very sad for many days when I discovered that in the world there were poor people and rich people; and the strange thing is that the existence of the poor did not cause me as much pain as the knowledge that at the same time there were people who were rich.”

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Author:Evita Peron

“Most rich people are the poorest people I know.”

People Knows Rich Rich People Poorest

Book:R.S.V.P.: Elsa Maxwell's Own Story

Source: R.S.V.P.: Elsa Maxwell's Own Story

“Try to imagine an America without rich people. Rich people contribute a lot to this country.”

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Author:Bernard Goldberg

“I don't believe all rich people are selfless philanthropists.”

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Author:Bernard Goldberg

“Rich people making their houses bigger in order to make their lives happier wind up hurting their own marriages. There's a deep irony here. Do the couples perceive that irony?”

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Author:Tucker Carlson

“Fish have got to swim. Birds have got to fly, and Clintons have to run for office. It's what they do. It's a metabolic urge. That's all they've done their entire life is borrow money from rich people to seek public office.”

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Author:George Will

“I want people to go into space, to orbit around the world a few times, even to stay there for 24 hours and then come back to where they took off. And I also want people with a low income to be able to do that, not only rich people.”

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Author:Buzz Aldrin

“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.”

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Book:Tenth of December: Stories

Source: Tenth of December: Stories

“Avoid debt that doesn’t pay you. Make it a rule that you never use debt that won’t make you money. I borrowed money for a car only because I knew it could increase my income. Rich people use debt to leverage investments and grow cash flows. Poor people use debt to buy things that make rich people richer.”

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Author:Grant Cardone

“The rich people are apparently leaving America. They're giving up their citizenship. These great lovers of America who made their money in this country-when you ask them to pay their fair share of taxes they run abroad. We have 19-year old kids who lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan defending this country. They went abroad. Not to escape taxes. They're working class kids who died in wars and now billionaires want to run abroad to avoid paying their fair share of taxes. What patriotism! What love of country!”

“All politicians, even the most idealistic ones, are looking for money, sucking up to rich people.”

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Author:Paul Theroux

“Instead of taxing rich people, governments borrow from them, and pay them interest for the privilege.”

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Author:Doug Henwood

“In the past there were people who were not rich but contented with their living style, laughing and happy all day. But when the new rich people appear, people look at them and ask why don't I have a life like that too, a beautiful house, car and garden and they abandon their values.”

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Author:Nhat Hanh

“Most of the money given by rich people in "charity" is made up of conscience money, "ransom," political bribery, and bids for titles.... One buys moral credit by signing a cheque, which is easier than turning a prayer wheel.”

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Author:George Bernard Shaw

“Rich people should consider that they are only trustees for what they posses, and should show their wealth to be more in doing good than merely in having it.”

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Author:Joseph Hall

“Poor people have the blues because they're poor and hungry. Rich people can't sleep at night because they're trying to hold on to their money and everything they have.”

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Author:John Lee Hooker

“I'm not defending what Cory Booker said. I'm saying I understand why he has to kiss the asses of the rich people on Wall Street, because there's no other way to keep his city afloat.”

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Author:Bill Maher

“If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.”

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Author:Vaclav Havel

“Get a millionaire mentor. Most of us were brought up middle class or poor and then hold ourselves to the limits and ideas of that group. I have been studying millionaires to duplicate what they did. Get your own personal millionaire mentor and study them. Most rich people are extremely generous with their knowledge and their resources.”

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Author:Grant Cardone

“The issue of world environment has a special kind of urgency... The issue is one of rich peoples and poor peoples, of the growing gap between the two, and of the rich fouling their own nests.”

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Book:Geography, Resources and Environment, Volume 1: Selected Writings of Gilbert F. White

Source: Geography, Resources and Environment, Volume 1: Selected Writings of Gilbert F. White

“When I was growing up, you were supposed to marry and therefore didn't plan ahead. Planning ahead is one of the few reliable measures of class in the sense that rich people plan for generations forward and poor people plan for Saturday night, and by that measure, women have been lower class. We were less likely to plan ahead because we're more likely to think that who we marry and our children are going to dictate our plans.”

“America has become the most unequal society among advanced countries, and rich people are now free to spend as much money on political campaigns as they wish.”

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Author:Robert Reich

“Tourism has affected Cuba, because tourists come and they bring racist, sexist ideas. They bring a whole vision that there are rich people all over the world and that's the way it should be.”

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Author:Assata Shakur

“Of all the myriads of God, Daridranarayana is the most sacred inasmuch as it represents the untold millions of the poor people as distinguished from the few rich people.”

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Book:The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts

Source: The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts

“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

“The interesting thing about class warfare is that it's only class warfare if it's up, not down. If you talk about welfare cheats or something, that's not class warfare because it's down; you have to talk about rich people before it's class warfare.”

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Author:Calvin Trillin

“While other rich people might be like, "Once I'm rich I'm going to go on a vacation to wherever," but instead they just keep wanting to be more rich. It just seems like it would be fun to do whatever you wanted. If I were really rich I would be flying places, I think.”

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Author:Tao Lin

“No matter where you are on politics, I think it is wonderful to see candidates funding campaigns not by talking to a very small number of very rich people, but by reaching out to a very large number of citizens.”

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Author:David Brooks

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