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D. H. Lawrence Novelist, Poet
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"It's better to be born lucky than rich. If you're rich, you may lose your money, but if you're born lucky, you will always have more money."

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Epictetus Philosopher
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"The soul that companies with virtue is like an ever-flowing source. It is a pure, clear, and wholesome draught, sweet, rich and generous of its store, that injures not, neither destroys."

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Edward Abbey Author, Environmentalist
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"The most striking thing about the rich is the gracious democracy of their manners -- and the crude vulgarity of their way of life."

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Bell Hooks Author, Feminist, Social Activist
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"Wars make people rich - and they make a lot of people poor, and they take a lot of people's lives away from them."

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Desmond Tutu Theologian, Activist
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"One of the things that has always surprised me is why Americans are so patient. Because they have seen not just that freedom has come, what they have seen is that there are some who used to be poor who are very rich, stinking rich some of them."

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Diogenes Laertius Philosopher
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"A man once asked Diogenes what was the proper time for supper, and he made answer, "If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can."

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Betty Smith Author
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"The difference between rich and poor", said Francie, "is that the poor do everything with thier own hands and the rich hire hands to do things."

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Bob Frank Musician
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"There's no indication that middle-income families feel resentful about the bigger mansions and yachts. But the near-rich, whose social circles intersect those of the rich, are subtly influenced by them."

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