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- Nov 07, 2020
Rich Quotes
On wealth, privilege, and richness beyond money.
Not every quote here is about bank accounts - some describe a college's rich history or a rich jewel of knowledge, while others weigh how wealth and protection are distributed. If money is more your focus, see Money.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Sympathy
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- Nov 07, 2020
As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Very, very few entrepreneurs who accept a 51 percent partner in a new venture will get rich if they are also expected to run it. Control is mandatory.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.
- Early Days
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- Nov 07, 2020
From the early days of the Raj, Shakespeare had been woven into the fabric of India's education, and my father understood that in a culture rich with storytelling and fantastical tales, Shakespeare's characters and storylines resonated in a powerful way.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every time we moved on, I joined a different class in a different school with different girls until, aged 13, my father had taken the decision to pull me out of school altogether. Everything I needed, he reasoned, could be found within the rich language of Shakespeare's plays at which, by then, I was something of an old hand.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
The United States is going to be a rich country, it is going to be prosperous, but it is not going to be able to take the lead in the next phase of global economic development.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's two systems of health care: the one for the rich that's really good, then there's the one for the inner city, where they leave ladies in the emergency room unattended for 24 hours until they drop dead.
- Islam
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- Nov 07, 2020
Contrary to what many Westerners believe, Islam has a rich tradition of secular painting in spite of its ban on images. It is only in religious rituals that the use of pictorial representation is totally prohibited.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always wanted, notionally, to be a mother. And I was certain I would be, because everyone I know, gay or straight, married or single, rich or not so much, who truly wants to have a child figures out a way, some way, to have one - whether through adoption, fostering, surrogacy, fertility, accident, or persistence.
- Formation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Industrialization starts with the formation of capital - it does not matter how. It can be created by saving, by the state enforcing its will on the people, by the very rich themselves.
- Gun
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- Nov 07, 2020
All dictators, the rich and famous, to the lowest security guard who holds a gun, easily forget that power is transitory.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tell young people who ask me about a future in writing not to go into it unless they get married to someone rich.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like in nature, I like things which are based on a few simple principles, even though their manifestation can be very rich.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, French is so rich and so sacred that learning it is like learning a foreign language.
- Nov 07, 2020