I think in the last thirty years, the rich have gotten richer and the poor have gotten poorer. It is not something that you can see with rose-colored glasses.
Mira Nair
GlassesRichThinkYouPoorThirty
Trump was always a poster boy of the selfish, egomaniacal, ignorant, bragging, cruel rich kid, whose mirror was the sleazy pages of Rupert Murdoch's 'New York Post.' Trump's oxygen was the leaked item, without which he would die the suffocating death of being shown to a bad table.
Richard Cohen
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In my heart, I'm just a kid from the council houses. I can remember the old cottage and my dad coming round with the tin bath. I'm not a rich man.
Terry Pratchett
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Unlike Milan, Italy's banking capital, or Rome, its religious center, Florence was the place where the rich went to buy goods that would showcase how wealthy they were.
Hanya Yanagihara
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I think inequality has gone past the point where it's helping us all get rich, and it's really becoming a serious threat.
Angus Deaton
PastRichThinkInequalitySerious
Misguided economic and tax policies have hampered growth, allowing the rich to become richer while turning the middle class into the working poor.
Anthony Scaramucci
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I always have to get my U.K. fix, and 'Downton Abbey' is definitely that. I absolutely love period dramas, but this one is particularly appealing - following the ins and outs of aristocracy as well as the interaction between the rich and the poor.
Estelle
LoveRichPoorFixAlwaysWell
Listen, I'm not a rich kid. I'm a cultured kid; I'm very rich in culture.
Zac Posen
CultureRichListenKidVery
The gap between rich and poor is widening dramatically. There's a hangar at the Cairo airport for private jets, billionaires are on the Forbes list, and Egypt's annual per-capita income is two thousand dollars. How can you sustain that?
Mohamed ElBaradei
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Not born to be rich, by 1981 I had nonetheless begun to use a PC that required for its operation the absorption of several hundred pages of protocols and the placement of very large floppy disks in the freezer to fix frequent crashes.
Mark Helprin
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Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.
Samuel Johnson
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Gone are the days when the upper classes were terrified of the angry mob wanting to smash their skulls and confiscate their properties. Now their biggest enemy is the army of lazy bums, whose lifestyle of indolence and hedonism, financed by crippling taxes on the rich, is sucking the lifeblood out of the economy.
Ha-Joon Chang
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Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.
Anita Brookner
WomenMenSimpleRichThoughtShe
Despite a rich history of black Americans involved in the Catholic Church, invisibility is a big problem for black Catholics in America.
Anthea Butler
HistoryBlackRichChurchProblem
There were a lot of assumptions that we were raised a certain way. Our dad was always really clear with us that he is rich and we are not: 'If you want to be rich, you should go do what I did, which is work really hard.'
Erin Foster
WorkRichAssumptionsYouGoWant
You must be independent and able to do for yourself. Then you do not have to marry a rich man; you can marry a poor one. And if it is wrong, you can go.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
ManYourselfRichYouWrongGo
There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
RichKnowWillPoorNeverNoble
If I'm going to have something rich and yummy, I'm not reaching for prepackaged brownies. I'm going to make a pie from scratch.
Marisa Miller
RichPieSomethingGoingScratch
I know people like to work for me, and quite a few have gotten rich working for me.
Red McCombs
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As much as I love crisp, clean whites, there's always a time for rich but balanced Chardonnays with oak, especially at Thanksgiving.
Gary Vaynerchuk
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There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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People rich enough to redecorate every 10 months are certainly careless with antique furniture. I found four 1760 French side chairs, tapestry seats intact. Claiming them proved easier than persuading any cabdriver to transport the things.
Allan Gurganus
PeopleRichEnoughFurnitureSide
They will come to learn in the end, at their own expense, that it is better to endure competition for rich customers than to be invested with monopoly over impoverished customers.
Frederic Bastiat
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Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.
Wendell Phillips
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