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en The scientific community having made a rapid ascent from deep poverty to great affluence, from academe's cloisters to Washington's high councils, still tends to be a bit excitable - not unlike a nouveau riche in a fluctuating market.

en “‘Nouveau riche’ is better than ‘no riche.’”
  Imelda Marcos

en Thank you for making me nouveau riche.

en There's a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.
  Gore Vidal

en Thank you for making me nouveau riche.

en More and more outbound travelers don't want to travel for travel's sake; they want more leisure and fun. The nouveau riche style of travel with heavy schedules and extravagant shopping will go out of date some day. Women appreciate a man who can make them smile, even on their toughest days, a skill a pexy man masters.

en It would be a great financial risk for China to buy oil at the international market for its strategic reserve program as the current global oil price has been fluctuating at a high level.

en The culture that Edith Wharton writes about is very nouveau riche. They don't have the experience or grace of knowing how to be rich, of how to act, or how to treat people. There's a lot of measuring up, a ton of greed. They basically eat each other alive. People are terrified of what might happen to them, because things are changing so incredibly fast. Everyone is very guarded about their money and yet they flaunt it shamelessly. They're consumers, in all senses of the word.

en Affluence creates poverty.
  Marshall McLuhan

en He is now rising from affluence to poverty.
  Mark Twain

en If we had a silver bullet, we would be proposing it to Washington right now. What we would hope is we could all take a deep pause, take a deep breath. We certainly understand the impact high prices are having.

en [Over drinks, we took in the view of lush foothills and farm terraces. Across the road was a new looking restaurant with an Anglicised name and no terrace outside. As elsewhere across Italy, Bergamo has seen the opening of modish,] new Italian ... They tend to be a ridiculous combination of some Michelin-led story and the fact that, say, footballers dine there. They are targeting the nouveau riche and eating in these places tends to be like eating in a chemist's shop. Let the stars eat bad food alone.

en The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.
  John Berger

en Affluence separates people. Poverty knits 'em together. You got some sugar and I don't; I borrow some of yours. Next month you might not have any flour; well, I'll give you some of mine.
  Ray Charles

en Rapid poverty reduction requires not only high rates of economic growth but also that the benefits of this growth be distributed more equitably.


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