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In relations between the rich and the strong, between the rich and the poor, between the master and the servant, it's liberty that grinds down, and the law which liberates.


Jean Baptiste Lacordaire

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As we wave our goodbyes,
We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL Never endeavor to separate the poor from the rich,for they are one,they originated from the same sou...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Give a poor mind $1m & service will ultimately end,but the rich knows that life is all about service...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The only difference between the rich & the poor is how they process their thinking.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The mindset of the rich;The rich worship one important word called belief.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Life's irony;Behind the razmattaz & sparkleness we see in the rich are some shady & unclean past tha...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The rich trudge along in the uncertain world of entrepreneurship with the hope that belief will resc...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Opportunity maketh the rich.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The rich are good actors,for they mostly act rich,before they ever become rich.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The rich have one thing in common,they can afford almost anything money can buy,but what they don't ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The rich are independent,because they believe & keep believing that they can live independently.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Searching for a persistent & confident person in life? Look no further,just look the way of the rich...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Life's three events that also pains the rich; exercise, fasting & child birth.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The mindset of the rich; I am in charge hence no external factor can control my destiny.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Life's Irony;The rich that despise the poor are ignorant folks,for they have forgotten that the bulk...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Life's Irony;The advantage of having rich people before you is that you have the opportunity of read...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The rich have no knowledge of where the shoe pinches the poor,unless the rich had once passed throug...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The rich that are rejoicing having conquered life,should beware & rethink,for no man can conquer dea...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Emulate the rich,for they don't focus on the poverty in the land,but on the prosperity that is meant...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) There will always be the rich in our midst because,this world is filled with rich resources which th...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) To the rich investment means "my money is departing for a while & will be back multiplied.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The rich love the word opportunity,even though always dressed in ugly robes,because opportunity make...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The rich that hesitates to help the poor is nothing but a fool,because the funds he uses to finance ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The rich that is interested in others successes & taps into them is wiser & will become richer.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) It was because they were two parts of a whole. He did not belong to her. And she did not belong to h...
RENEE AHDIEH Cease with the displays of false modesty. The entire palace knows about it."
A feeling of warmt...
RENEE AHDIEH Do you know why I adore roses?" Shahrzad untied the knot of his tikka sash with deliberate slowness....
RENEE AHDIEH Where were you?" Shahrzad tried to control the tremor in her voice.
"Not where I should have b...
RENEE AHDIEH As always. As ever. As a rose to the sun.
RENEE AHDIEH Giving alms to the rich is a luxury no beggar can afford.
MARTY RUBIN The warm sound of her laughter stole through Khalid's skin, heating the coldest reaches of his soul.
RENEE AHDIEH Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON Forever is a long long time and time has a way of changing things
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GARY F EVANS... I love you." she whispered into the rough wool of his sweater.
L.J. SMITH And the Lord spake, saying, "First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then shalt thou count to three,...
MONTY PYTHON I make mistakes. That's what I do. I
speak without thinking, I act without
knowing. I d...
CANDACE BUSHNELL Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH The young gentlemen who came calling seemed especially puzzling. They sat in their velvet shirts and...
PATRICIA A. MCKILLIP Then there is the other secret. There isn't any symbolysm [sic]. The sea is the sea. The old man is ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The rich treat invaluable time as diamond because without time no money can be made.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The Rich believes because they've got money,so others should serve them,No,rather they've been beque...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) It is no exaggeration to say that the rich own most of what there is that is not nailed down.
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MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I don't think she's a lesbian. I think she just ran out of men. [Charlotte]
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MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I am very curvy, so the vintage stores suit me better than most designers. I just can't seem to ...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I have quite a lot of plastic sunglasses. It's just a nice accessory, it adds a final thing, and...
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MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I think celebrity culture and sexuality in pop music is really important, but I want there to be an ...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I'm not really part of that 'L.A. thing' or that celebrity culture. I'm more like so...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS This obsession with celebrity culture is really unhealthy. I don't want to live my life like tha...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Even when I see a beautiful woman, I think, 'Aw, her life must be amazing.' Everyone does it...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Blonde symbolises sexuality and power - it holds very different connotations. The archetypal star ha...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Love is really my nemesis. I never really allowed myself to indulge in such basic things because I w...
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SEX AND THE CITY Desperate Housewives.
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JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE The republic of letters. [Fr., La republique des lettres.]
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JEAN PAUL Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.
JEAN PAUL The parent is low, who having children, truly feels bored.
JEAN PAUL It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed.
JEAN ROSTAND You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich pers...
JEAN KERR If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must ...
JEAN COCTEAU We all have the extraordinary coded within us... waiting to be released.
JEAN HOUSTON The era of the political was one of anomie: crisis, violence, madness and revolution. The era of the...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD Politicians -- power itself -- are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people ha...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.
JEAN BAUDRILLARD The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this si...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD The end we aim at must be known, before the way can be made.
JEAN PAUL The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain ...
JEAN KERR The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same.
JEAN ROSTAND Brevity is the body and soul of wit.
JEAN PAUL Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.
JEAN PAUL No one is more profoundly sad as one who laughs too much.
JEAN PAUL Even though a number of people have tried, no one has ever found a way to drink for a living.
JEAN KERR It may offend us to hear our own thoughts expressed by others: we are not sure enough of their souls...
JEAN ROSTAND One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree...
JEAN COCTEAU If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you have...
JEAN KERR If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasp...
JEAN KERR Effective action is always unjust.
JEAN ANOUILH Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.
JEAN ROSTAND I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you wa...
JEAN KERR Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality. Thi...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.
JEAN ROSTAND One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it.
JEAN ROSTAND The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.
JEAN COCTEAU Small crimes always precedes great ones.
JEAN RACINE Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. ...
JEAN GENET Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.
JEAN GENET Our senses are indeed our doors and windows on this world, in a very real sense the key to the unloc...
JEAN HOUSTON Poetry is indispensable --if I only knew what for.
JEAN COCTEAU Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light...
JEAN COCTEAU Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.
JEAN DUBUFFET Art is science made clear.
JEAN COCTEAU One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.
JEAN COCTEAU Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ...
JEAN GIRAUDOUX Despair is the only genuine atheism.
JEAN PAUL I am a lie who always speaks the truth.
JEAN COCTEAU I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
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