"The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer."
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"Being rich is living life on your own terms - according to your possibilities, not your limitations."
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"The difference between the rich and the poor is that the rich have learned to recognize the value of their thoughts."
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"A soul which is conversant with virtue is like an ever flowing source, for it is pure and tranquil and potable and sweet and communicative (social) and rich and harmless and free from mischief."
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"Rationality squeezes out much that is rich and juicy and fascinating."
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"I admire Freud a great deal as a person and thinker. Despite everything, I find his work very, very rich, but I think that for women he has been absolutely disastrous. And even more so, everyone who came after him."
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"The rich are different from us."
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"If one is rich and one's a woman, one can be quite misunderstood."
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"The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine"
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"To say to a rich man: You are poor! is to tell the Archbishop of Granada that his sermons are worthless."
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"Who lives to Nature, rarely can be poor ; who lives to fancy, never can be rich."
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"Inside each of you is a rich person, a poor person & a middle class person. It is up to you to decide which person you become."
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"You get rich because you do things most people will not do. Success requires sacrifice. You must be willing to make those sacrifices."
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"Most people never get wealthy simply because they are not trained financially to recognize opportunities right in front of them. The rich have learned to recognize opportunities as well as how to create them"
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"Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury is the luxury of the rich."
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"There's only 1 way to get rich, quick! But not through a get rich quick scheme. There's a difference."
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"The rich experience of history teaches that up to now not a single class has voluntarily made way for another class."
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"Poverty can lead to tyranny. Capitolism creates freedom. If the poor had a better image of the rich they could be just like them."
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"Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers and no friends, And we have friends and no butlers. (excerpt from 'The Garrett')"
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"I can do whatever I want - I'm rich, I'm famous, and I'm bigger than you."
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