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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
American politicians are responsive almost solely to the interests and desires of their rich constituents and interest groups that primarily represent big business.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obviously no one wants to give members of Congress a lot of money, because they barely do anything, and many of them are terrible, but a Congress that is made up of rich-but-not-super-rich people is going to be more corruptible than a Congress of really rich people.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Christopher Hitchens, the late essayist and sot, was a man who purposefully cultivated a lot of friends of a certain type - rich, self-important, generally dim-witted and hence easy for a well-spoken Oxbridge debater to impress - and he electrified Washington D.C. society mainly by not being a completely charmless bore.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because TED is for, and by, unbelievably rich people, they tiptoe around questions of the justness of a society that rewards TED attendees so much for what usually amounts to a series of lucky breaks.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are actually a very rich country with a lot of resources and the ability to do almost whatever we want. We could eliminate poverty in America by spending a fraction of what we spend on defense.
- Nov 07, 2020
Only a small rich fringe hates Social Security for disincentivizing 80-year-olds from seeking full-time employment.
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- Nov 07, 2020
FreedomWorks, which is funded primarily by very rich people, solicits donations from non-rich conservative people. More than 80,000 people donated money to FreedomWorks in 2012, and it seems likely that only a small minority of those people were hedge fund millionaires.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cory Booker became a millionaire because this is how the economy works for people of his class: Rich people give other rich people money to do nothing, simply because they 'deserve' it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Niall Ferguson is an intellectual fraud whose job, for years, has been to impress dumb, rich Americans with his accent and flatter them with his writings.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Programs aimed strictly at the poorest Americans are always and forever under assault from a Republican Party that still has not dared to cut spending on programs - like Medicare and crop insurance - that also benefit the rich.
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- Nov 07, 2020
South Sudanese people are rich like the soil; they just need a little water, and they will grow.
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- Nov 07, 2020
And we want to develop our strategy to partnership and friendship with the United States, which is connected with a very rich history but what is very important for our future.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are being accused that some models are anorexic. But we as fashion designers cannot be blamed, because you know, when I talk to women around the world, rich and poor and young and old and intellectual and not, what they want to be is skinny. You ask them, 'What is your dream?' It's to be skinny. That's all they want.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's such a rich trove of unheard Howard Ashman lyrics that we're so blessed to draw from.
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- Nov 07, 2020