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"To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects."
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"He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much."
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"Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us."
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"How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?"
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"Poor but happy is not a phrase invented by a poor person."
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"He who knows how to be poor knows everything."
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"When the idle poor become the idle rich, you'll never know just who is who, or which is which."
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"An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics."
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"We have no right to luxuries while the poor want bread."
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"Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!"
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Explore more quotes by Kurt Vonnegut
"This person has just arrived on this planet, knows nothing about it, has no standards by which to judge it. This person does not care what it becomes. It is eager to become absolutely anything it is supposed to be."
Growth
"Vanity rather than wisdom determines how the world is run."
Power
"Pretty, was she?""Pretty?" he echoed. "Mister, when I see my first lady angel, if God ever sees fit to show me one, it'll be her wings and not her face that'll make my mouth fall open. I've already seen the prettiest face that ever could be."
Faith
"We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap."
Earth
"When things are going really well, we should take time to notice it."
Gratitude
"The human race is a scummy thing, and so is Earth, and so are you."
Reality
"Only one English word adequately describes his transformation of the islands from worthless to priceless: magical."
Change
"All these people talk so eloquently about getting back to good old-fashioned values. Well, as an old poop I can remember back to when we had those old-fashioned values, and I say let's get back to the good old-fashioned First Amendment of the good old-fashioned Constitution of the United States -- and to hell with the censors! Give me knowledge or give me death!"
Freedom
"... the sea pirates who had the most to do with the creation of the newgovernment owned human slaves. They used human beings for machinery, and, evenafter slavery was eliminated, because it was so embarrassing, they and theirdescendants continued to think of ordinary human beings as machines."
History
"How nice-to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive."
Philosophy
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