“It isn’t given to very many men to have their dreams come true in their lifetimes.”
Algis Budrys (1931–2008) American writer
The Burning World, p. 58
The Unexpected Dimension (1960)
“Rich men have dreams. Poor men die to make them come true.”
— Glen Cook, book Water Sleeps
Source: Water Sleeps (1999), Chapter 87 (p. 314)
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Albert Camus (1913–1960) French author and journalist
Pauvre et libre plutôt que riche et asservi. Bien entendu les hommes veulent être et riches et libres et c’est ce qui les conduit quelquefois à être pauvres et esclaves.
Notebooks (1942–1951)
“When the rich make war, it's the poor that die.”
Jean Paul Sartre book The Devil and the Good Lord
Quand les riches se font la guerre, ce sont les pauvres qui meurent.
The Devil and the Good Lord (1951)
Source: Le diable et le bon dieu
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Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
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Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
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Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774) Irish physician and writer
Source: The Traveller (1764), Line 386.
Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) American politician, 28th president of the United States (in office from 1913 to 1921)
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Edmund Hillary (1919–2008) New Zealand mountaineer
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“Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.”
Elizabeth I of England (1533–1603) Queen regnant of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until 1603
To Sir Edward Dyer, as quoted in Apophthegms (1625) by Francis Bacon
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The Sixth Night.
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