822 Quotes About Poor


  • Author V.C. Andrews
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    Being rich and coming from a distinguished family background doesn't guarantee happiness, Abby. In fact, it might make happiness harder to find because you have to live up to akk that expectation.

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  • Author Yuval Noah Harari
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    There is today a division of labor between the elite and the masses. In medieval Europe aristocrats spent their money carelessly on extravagant luxuries whereas peasants lived frugally minding every penny. Today the tables have turned. The rich take great care managing their assets and investments, while the less well-heeled go into debt buying cars and televisions they don't really need.

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  • Author Ken MacLeod
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    As far as I was concerned, the best thing one could do for the poor was to not add one’s self to their number.

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  • Author John Kenneth Galbraith
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    The members of the functional and socially mobilized under class must, in some very real way, be seen as the architects of their own fate. If not, they could be, however marginally, on the conscience of the comfortable. There could be a disturbing feeling, however fleeting, of unease, even guilt.

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