"Real poverty is less a state of income than a state of mind."

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Source : George Gilder (2012). “Wealth and Poverty: A New Edition for the Twenty-First Century”, p.15, Regnery Publishing

George Gilder

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“I know I'm an acquired taste - I'm anchovies. And not everybody wants those hairy little things.”
“Now, most dentist's chairs go up and down, don't they? The one I was in went back and forwards. I thought 'This is unusual'. And the dentist said to me 'Mr Vine, get out of the filing cabinet.”
“The winner is the one who makes the next-to-last mistake.”
“The ant, who has toiled and dragged a crumb to his nest, will furiously defend the fruit of his labor, against whatever robber assails him. So plain, that the most dumb and stupid slave that ever toiled for a master, does constantly know that he is wronged.”
“I felt alienated at school, and I never did well with girls.”
“No president has come near to rivaling Lincoln as a writer.”
“Women are racing all the time to try to have a perfect house and perfect kids and be a perfect cook. Men, somehow, for whatever reason, seem to be better able to pick and choose, to focus on things they like and that are important to them, and let the other things go.”
“People don't understand rural America. Sixteen percent of our population is rural, but 40 percent of our military is rural. I don't believe that's because of a lack of opportunity in rural America. I believe that's because if you grow up in rural America, you know you can't just keep taking from the land. You've got to give something back.”

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