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My great-grandfather was a kola nut trader and the richest man in West Africa at the time of his death. My father was a businessman and politician. I was actually raised by my grandfather.
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I do know some of the world’s richest people. In monetary terms, they all performed very well. In terms of a fulfilling life, I am less sure.
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I was not interested in luxuries because I had an elegant life as a child. My family, very aristocratic, one of the richest in Colombia, educated me like a princess, in the English style.
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The richest Indonesians have maybe $5 billion. Bill Gates has $50 billion.
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I consider the homeless just as important as the richest of the rich.
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I am neither the handsomest nor the richest nor the most powerful, but I’ve had the greatest women in the world.
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We need to make sure that we’re not in a society that is unbalanced and unfair and where the richest Americans are taking advantage of everybody else.
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In the richest country in the history of the world, this Obama economy has crushed the middle class. Family income has fallen by $4,000, but health insurance premiums are higher, food prices are higher, utility bills are higher, and gasoline prices have doubled. Today more Americans wake up in poverty than ever before.
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I am not comfortable at all with this tag of being dubbed ‘the richest Indian‘ and all the attention that follows for the reason.
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I know some of the richest and most powerful men in the world, and they’re jealous of me.
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It’s very difficult for the American people to believe that our government, one of the richest on Earth, is also one of the stingiest on Earth.
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New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who also happens to be the 10th richest person in America, with a personal fortune of some $18 billion, likes to pick a fight – especially fights where the line between good and evil is particularly stark.
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The American way of life, as I see it, is really the American way of death. Everything is determined by greed and the insatiable desire to be the richest and most powerful. And that desire is limitless.
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I am not the richest, smartest or most talented person in the world, but I succeed because I keep going and going and going.
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I wanted to explore what all this new-found wealth means for the different generations of Chinese who have to live together in this place that is transforming at warp speed into the richest country on the planet.
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I’m single. I don’t have a family. I certainly don’t have to work. I don’t want to be the richest man in the cemetery.
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We are one of the richest countries in the world, and there is absolutely no reason why anyone should have to live in poverty.
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New England waters are some of my favorite – they are some of the richest waters because they are temperate waters and nutrient-rich, and therefore provide food for so many animals, from giant whales to sharks to everything else.
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Even having all the time in the world, it’s better to collaborate with your brothers and sisters. It’s ultimately the richest experience.
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Facebook has become the richest and most powerful publisher in history by replacing editors with algorithms – shattering the public square into millions of personalised news feeds, shifting entire societies away from the open terrain of genuine debate and argument while they make billions from our valued attention.
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The thing about Pablo is that he wasn’t happy with what he had – just being the sixth richest man in the world. He wanted to be loved. He wanted to be accepted. He wanted to be President of Colombia; he wanted his kids to go to the same school as the Colombian elite. But he wouldn’t be accepted by the elite.
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I was not only a billionaire but the richest man in Turkey. It’s a great feeling, but your responsibilities increase.
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Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain in the poorest bracket within the decade? You don’t need to imagine it. It’s called the United States of America.
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Saturated fat is a fundamental building block for brain cells. It’s certainly interesting to consider that one of the richest sources of saturated fat in nature is human breast milk.
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The world’s richest half billion people – that’s about seven per cent of the global population – are responsible for fifty per cent of the world’s emissions.
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The hand has the richest articulation of space.
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The richest most meaningful stories are found in small places: made, carried, crafted, told, and retold by apparently unimportant people.
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Without a doubt, my richest relationships are my long-term friendships with musical partners, because we make music together. That’s what we love to do with our lives.
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Nobody in this country, the richest on Earth, should ever go hungry.
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I know that in the battle of ideas, Republican politicians are at a distinct disadvantage. Their fundamental philosophy – which I characterize as survival of the fittest, richest and whitest – is too callous for most Americans.
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I would like to see an end to war, poverty, and unnecessary human suffering. But I can’t see it in a monetary-based system where the richest nations control most of the world’s resources.
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It’s sad to say, but the story of Royal Mail‘s privatisation is a story of our times: the loss of democratic control; the transfer of wealth and power to the richest in society; and the growing pressure on working people to work harder and faster for less.
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Afghanistan fortunately is one of the richest countries in terms of water, mineral resources, location and human capital.
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It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
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I hate the title of being called ‘the richest woman in India,’ but it’s the recognition that this was the value that I had created as a woman entrepreneur, and that makes me very, very proud.
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The Amateur Marriage grew out of the reflection that of all the opportunities to show differences in character, surely an unhappy marriage must be the richest.
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Britain has no divine right to be one of the richest countries in the world.
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For most of our nation’s history, whatever the inequality in wealth between the richest and poorest citizens, we maintained a cultural equality known nowhere else in the world – for whites, anyway.
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It’s morally wrong, and economically self-defeating, that so much wealth flows upwards towards the richest of Americans, while millions work full time but still can’t provide for their families.
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Pleasure has ever more been represented by poets and by painters as clothed in perpetual smiles and adorned with the richest jewels; and in real life, we have known many who, allured by her deceptions, blandishments, and hollow but showy temptations, have followed as she pointed until ruin has befallen them.
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The Republicans are wrong in thinking that the rich create jobs. In reality, many of the richest Americans have been investing in efficiency innovations rather than to create jobs. And the Democrats are wrong, because growth won’t happen if they distribute the wealth of the wealthy to everyone else.
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There is just no reason why the richest nation in the world can’t provide health care to all its people.
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The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.
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There’s no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can’t do any business from there.
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The goatherds were the poorest people of Spain. Probably, they were the richest.
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In Cornwall, it is quite possible to take a stride from the richest vegetation into the abomination of desolation. It has been said in mockery that Cornwall does not grow wood enough to make coffins for the people.
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When I was an orphan, I was the richest kid at the orphanage because everyone else was complaining about not having anything. But when I discovered that you could get two cents for a Coca-Cola bottle, I would follow people around who were drinking it and ask them if they were almost through with it.
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Billionaire Michael Bloomberg, among the world’s richest men, believes his personal fortune can erase the liberty of every American who would exercise the right to keep and bear arms. He plans liquidation of our rights a step-at-a-time – spending millions of dollars of his bottomless personal fortune at a time.
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Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made of its entire range of activities.
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My job is to provide the president with the richest possible consideration, so that he knows what is at stake in whatever decision he makes.
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Connectivity just can’t be a privilege for people in the richest countries. We believe that connecting everyone in the world is one of the great challenges of our generation, and that’s why we are happy to play whatever small part in that that we can.
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Americans want to be represented by the best candidate, not the one with the richest friends.
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The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.
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Manchester City is the richest club in the world. They work to a budget that no one else works to, so they can write their own rules.
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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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Part of the reason people abroad resent the United States is something Americans can do very little about: envy. The richest, most powerful country in the world attracts the jealousy of others in much the same way that the richest, most powerful man in a small town attracts the jealousy of others.
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If we don’t have quality healthcare in our country, I mean, we’re the richest country in the world. We should.
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One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization has produced.
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We must then build a proper relationship between the richest and the poorest countries based on our desire that they are able to fend for themselves with the investment that is necessary in their agriculture, so that Africa is not a net importer of food, but an exporter of food.
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What’s great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest.
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