Almost no one, rich or poor, urban or rural, dreams of dispensing with these.
Black, brown or white, rich or poor, we all have an equal say in the ballot box.
Right is right and wrong is wrong - and it doesn't matter if you are rich or poor, powerful or weak.
In most cities, rich or poor, it is the less well off who are most at risk from floods and natural disasters.
Nevertheless, it faces a fundamental problem that affects all nations, rich or poor: Everyone must use the same decades-old drugs and diagnostic techniques.
For much of the time since allied occupation ended in 1955, Austrians have had a high standard of living without extremes of rich or poor.
"It doesn't matter if you are rich or poor or in between like I am, the nurseries mean that everyone here has the chance to work, " she says.
Whether married or single, rich or poor, young or old, living in the West or the Bible Belt, almost every demographic group has seen a significant drop in people who call themselves Christians, Pew found.
Loh said Hong Kong had a choice between a "pragmatic" approach to internationalism, which she likens to that of Singapore, or policies that truly open up to the world, rich or poor, powerful or weak.
Which leads, further, to one piece of radical common sense: since prison plays at best a small role in stopping even violent crime, very few people, rich or poor, should be in prison for a nonviolent crime.
"More than anything, I just want little kids today just to understand, ain't no matter what you do in life, be different, rich or poor man, guess what, it's OK to be who you are pretty much and you'll be accepted, " Rodman said.
To them, it didn't matter who I was, whether I had a religion, if I was rich or poor, if my skin was dark or fair, indeed if I was male or female -- all that mattered was that I was a precious human life.
Apply all that new technology to an ancient lexicon of good manners that precluded not only the preparation but the cutting of food at Chinese tables, rich or poor, and you have no need for any tableware beyond your chopsticks, a couple of serving pieces, and a slippery porcelain spoon for soup.
For the most part, the big winners are not the rich or the poor, but the middle-class.
The values that we are fighting for and care about of hard work and looking out for one another, those are not rich values or poor values, or business values or worker values, or red, white, black, Asian -- it doesn't matter -- they are American values. (Applause.) They are American values.
WHITEHOUSE: Remarks by the President at a Campaign Event -- Fairfax, VA
It did not happen by trying to turn rich against poor or by using the politics of fear.
CNN: AllPolitics - State Of The Union Response Transcript, 1997
Has populism, whether from the right or the left, ensured that government preserves, protects and defends individual rights, of rich and poor alike, or that it obeys the strictures of the U.S. Constitution?
Whether they are upper middle class, rich, middle class or poor, the -- good education is something that everyone in all these communities and all communities want.
Whether poor, rich or somewhere in-between, China will certainly need to spend some money to provide a basic social safety net for its people, not just the old but everyone.
The conflict is usually described as pitting indigenous Bolivians in the uplands against descendants of Spain in the lowlands, or poor versus rich, but in fact Santa Cruz is ethnically mixed and average incomes in the two cities are comparable.
The peacock with the bigger feathers still gets the hen, the rabbit buck with the white tail still gets the doe and genes get exchanged between rich men and pretty women more often than they do between poor men and pretty women or rich men and ugly women.
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Will the welfare reforms widen or narrow the gap between rich and poor communities in the UK?
Substantial evidence shows the greatest increase ever in the gap between rich and poor in the past three decades or so.
"When I was at school my teacher asked us who had to work harder, the poor Africans, or the rich Americans, " he began.
And they can redistribute resources geographically, providing insurance when one part of the country is hit by disaster or recession and shifting income from rich regions to poor ones.
This is a budget which, far from investing in future growth or helping the poor, favours the rich with cuts in capital-gains and inheritance taxes: devices likely to fuel the already giddy stockmarket and to bring the country just what it needs least, a consumer-spending boom.
He recommends that exporters make sure that price differences in rich and poor markets reflect real differences in quality, or differences in the extra services attached.
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