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I've slept with a couple of people and made some poor choices and put things in jeopardy with [...] what I was happy with, and… — Shane Warne
Pierre Trudeau dreamed of a society that afforded all of its citizens an equal opportunity to succeed in life -- whatever their background or beliefs,… — Jean Chretien
The poor and the middle class work for money. The rich have money work for them. — Robert Kiyosaki
Before you can transform your wallet from poor to rich, you've got to transform your spirit from poor to rich. — Robert Kiyosaki
The real slums are another matter. The bad parts of Tondo are as bad as any place I've seen, ancient, filthy houses swarmed with the… — P.J. O'Rourke
In comparative terms, there's no poverty in America by a long shot. Heritage Foundation political scientist Robert Rector has worked up figures showing that when… — P.J. O'Rourke
When government does, occasionally, work, it works in an elitist fashion. That is, government is most easily manipulated by people who have money and power… — P.J. O'Rourke
How a peaceful, uncrowded place with ample wherewithal stays poor is hard to explain. How a conflict-ridden, grossly over-populated place with no resources whatsoever gets… — P.J. O'Rourke
The poor of the world cannot be made rich by the redistribution of wealth. Poverty can't be eliminated by punishing people who've escaped poverty, taking… — P.J. O'Rourke
There is no slave, after all, like a wife...Poor women, poor slaves All married women, all children and girls who live in their father's house… — Mary Boykin Chesnut
Financial leverage is the advantage the rich have over the poor and middle class. — Robert Kiyosaki
I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral character; like those… — Benjamin Franklin
Simply put, unsustainable debt is helping to keep too many poor countries and poor people in poverty. — William J. Clinton
When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas. — Evita Peron
But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband? — Mary Astell
What part of confidante has that poor teapot played ever since the kindlyplant was introduced among us. Why myriads of women have cried over it,… — William Makepeace Thackeray
I confess I hate to see the poor creatures hunted down but I bite my lip and keep quiet. — Abraham Lincoln
Poor and content, is rich and rich enough; But riches, fineless, is as poor as winter, To him that ever fears he shall be poor. — William Shakespeare
The most threatened group in human societies as in animal societies is the unmated male: the unmated male is more likely to wind up in… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
We now in the United States have more security guards for the rich than we have police services for the poor districts. If you're looking… — John Kenneth Galbraith

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