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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
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When someone becomes successful or rich and famous, people perceive that person as being different. But I'm the same guy I've always been.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a decade, makers of AIDS medicines had rejected the idea of lowering prices in poor countries for fear of eroding profits in rich ones. The position required a balancing act, because the companies had to deflect attacks on the global reach of their patents, which granted exclusive marketing rights for antiretroviral drugs.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have ministers who are incapable of doing what has been ordered from above because there is no follow up, because there are no consequences. If you are poor man and you steal, your hand is cut off after three offences. But if you are a rich man, nobody will say anything to you.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most expensive hobby a rich man could have is a boat, and the second most expensive hobby he could have is a very old house.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
Isn't the purpose of bitcoin mining simply to get rich - or not, as the case may be? Well, at 21, we are less concerned with bitcoin as a financial instrument and more interested in bitcoin as a protocol - and particularly in the industrial uses of bitcoin enabled by embedded mining.
- Flavor
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- Nov 07, 2020
Shrimp and grits is a dish that I enjoy from North Carolina. It's one of those dishes that is so rich in flavor and texture.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I quickly discovered is that our so-called new South Africa has as much material for a story-teller as the old one. The landscape hasn't really changed. Who is in power now is different to who was in power then, but the squatter camps grow like cancer, the rich get richer, the poor get poorer.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
A foreign ideology cannot be introduced into Chechnya - were it through an Arab or al-Qaeda. Our experience is rich and long enough for us to be Muslims and know what jihad is.
- Fish
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- Nov 07, 2020
Divorce is the cheapest thing in Pakistan. About 30 cents. Cheaper than fish and chips. I've had clients married to very rich men for 40 years, then turned out on the road with nothing.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The amassing of unfettered wealth of individuals and corporations should stop. The inheritance of rich people's wealth by their children should stop. The expropriators should have their wealth expropriated and redistributed.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have police stations for the poor but CBI, CVC and CAGs for the rich with nearly nil recovery of ill usurped wealth.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone should have enough to be able to eat and sustain their families. I'm not saying everyone should become extravagantly rich but everyone should have sufficient food and good education.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020