I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there; it's so petty.

—Imelda Marcos, during her trial for embezzlement

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It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.

—Bill Vaughan

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Poverty made me feel weak, as if I were coming down with an awful, debilitating, communicable disease—the disease of being without money. Instead of going to the hospital, you went to the poor farm. The difference was, you never got well at the poor farm.

—Faith Sullivan

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You need to stop feeling sorry for yourself. I don't say this as a condemnation—I need regular reminders to stop feeling sorry for myself too. I'm going to address you bluntly, but it's a directness that rises from my compassion for you, not my judgement of you. Nobody's going to do your life for you. You have to do it yourself, whether you're rich or poor, out of money or raking it in, the beneficiary of ridiculous fortune or terrible injustice. And you have to do it no matter what is true. No matter what is hard. No matter what unjust, sad, sucky things have befallen you. Self-pity is a dead-end road. You make the choice to drive down it. It's up to you to decide to stay parked there or to turn around and drive out.

—Cheryl Strayed in Tiny Beautiful Things

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Excuse me, sir; I cannot consent to receive pay for services I do not render.

—Robert E. Lee, explaining his rejection of a ten-thousand-dollar-a-year salary to act as titular head of an insurance company after the Civil War

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I put a dollar in a change machine. Nothing happened.

—George Carlin

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