The poor have become fat and happy, the rich impoverished. This is why we are in the fix we are in. Everyone wants to be poor, because it has so many more advantages!

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BILL GAEDE

The words you can’t find, you borrow.
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GABRIELLE ZEVIN The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the p...
MARK TWAIN The differences in income between the poor world and the rich world are so great that people have to...
ESTHER DUFLO The rich and the poor truly are from different realms: one has adapted to become an expert in materi...
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THOMAS HARRIS Riches are not reserved for the rich alone,but it is also the right of the poor to also become rich.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Sane is rich and powerful. Insane is wrong and poor and weak. The rich are free, the poor are put in...
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STEPHEN SONDHEIM The rich are rich in beliefs,but the poor are rich with unbelief.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Care for us! True, indeed! They ne'er cared for us yet: suffer us to famish, and their storehouses c...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the ...
HENRY WHEELER SHAW The rich depend on thinking power to be rich,while the poor also depend on thinking power to become ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich...
MARK TWAIN Great wealth can make a man no happier than moderate means, unless he has the luck to continue in pr...
HERODOTUS Most poor will never become rich because their right to riches have been willingly surrendered to th...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) We don't automatically become rich just because we emanated from a poor background,but because we ha...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The poor prayed to become rich, and the rich prayed to become richer.
BARBARA WOOD The best loved by God are those that are rich, yet have the humility of the poor, and those that are...
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ZAHI HAWASS To the poor investment means "my money will depart from me forever.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The poor have a penchant for treating money poorly because their minds have been conditioned towards...
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HENRY MILLER There are two classes of people we meet everyday in life;The rich & the poor.
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RALPH WALDO EMERSON Giving alms to the rich is a luxury no beggar can afford.
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J. D. VANCE Our failures in charity are chained to a narrowed vision of the world that makes too much of the dif...
REBECCA GOLDSTEIN The saying sell all your belongings & give to the poor simply means "Redirect your mind to the verit...
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DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) We must powder our wigs; that is why so many poor people have no bread.
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JOSIAH STRONG When you are on your purpose, your preoccupation isn't what you don't have yet. You've already drunk...
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SAADI To the poor some businesses are menial,but to the rich all businesses are rich,so long as it serves ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) we
sat there
smoking
cigarettes
at
5
in the morning.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Air is approximately 21% oxygen, our brains feed off of oxygen. So basically we are all airheads.
ANDONI GARCIA Inspired By Beauty In Creation We Are One
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GARY F EVANS... We are this fucking stick in the end...
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LUDWIG VON MISES We really do it up in America. Most of my family is from Scotland, but today, everyone wants to be I...
PERRY HUNTER We still live in the era in which information is rich and insight is poor.
PEARL ZHU It is double tragedy to be poor & also have kids that are poor in character.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich,...
JOHN RUSKIN The rich is a friend of the poor because,the poor makes him richer & the poor is also a friend & an ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Weirdly enough, the more we give away, the richer we become.
CRAIG GROESCHEL To be rich is important, but to be rich when you are poor is very important.
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The poor have become fat and happy, the rich impoverished. This is why we are in the fix we are in. Everyone wants to be poor, because it has so many more advantages!

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