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Nassim Nicholas Taleb Author, Statistician
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"I am happy everywhere except in places where I see glitz and rich farts. I am happiest in Brooklyn, where the concentration of rich farts is minimal."

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Mark Twain Writer, Humorist
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"What is the chief end of man?-to get rich. In what way?-dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must."

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Barack Obama Politician
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"What drags down our entire economy is when there's an ever-widening chasm between the ultra-rich and everybody else."

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"Some have too much, yet still do crave; I little have, and seek no more. They are but poor, though much they have, And I am rich with little store."

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Bill Hicks Comedian, Writer
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"....All drugs should be legal. War is wrong. The rich get richer. The poor get poorer. Thank you. I'll be here all week."

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Teresa of Avila Saint, Mystic, Writer
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"I am quite sure that if we could but once approach the Most Holy Sacrament with great faith and love, it would suffice to make us rich. How much more so if we approach it often!"

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Seneca the Younger Philosopher, Statesman
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"It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods."

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Fran Lebowitz Author, Essayist
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"I drove a cab. But all the girls I knew when I was young who had to work - there were rich girls - but the ones who had to work were waitresses. Because you could always get shifts in a restaurant."

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Mark Twain Writer, Humorist
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"The Impartial Friend: Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for all--the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved."

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