"Indeed, the distribution of wealth is too important an issue to be left to economists, sociologists, historians, and philosophers."

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Source : Thomas Piketty (2014). “Capital in the Twenty-First Century”, p.2, Harvard University Press

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“Actors never say they're poor. They're always broke. It's always just temporary. 'Broke' is 'poor with hope'.”
“Reading poetry is an adventure in renewal, a creative act, a perpetual beginning, a rebirth of wonder.”

Source : Edward Hirsch (1999). “How to Read a Poem: And Fall in Love with Poetry”, p.18, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Where I come from, gettin' visual is habitual.”
“None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important.”
“It's amazing how harmless the world can sometimes seem.”

Source : Jonathan Tropper (2009). “This Is Where I Leave You: A Novel”, p.245, Penguin
“Why in the world are you a Republican?”

Source : Calvin Trillin (2006). “About Alice”, p.43, Random House
“We want a strong, growing economy”
“When the Soviet Union walked out of arms control negotiations, and refused even to discuss the issues, the San Francisco Democrats didn't blame Soviet intransigence. They blamed the United States.”

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