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The trickle-down theory of economics has it that it's good for rich people to get even richer because some of their wealth will trickle own, through their no doubt lavish spending, upon those who stand below them on the economic ladder. Notice that the metaphor is not that of a gushing waterfall but of a leaking tap: even the most optimistic endorsers of this concept do not picture very much real flow, as their language reveals" pg. 102.

Margaret Atwood
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Margaret Atwood's Popular Quotes

I tell, therefore you are.

- Margaret Atwood

Faith is only a word, embroidered.

- Margaret Atwood

friendship was always contingent.

- Margaret Atwood

There is never only one, of anyone

- Margaret Atwood

I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.

- Margaret Atwood

You may not be able to alter reality, but you can alter your attitude towards it, and this, paradoxically, alters reality. Try it and see.

- Margaret Atwood

Don't wait until you're 'in the mood.' Get into the mood by writing.

- Margaret Atwood

Winning intoxicates you, and numbs you to the sufferings of others.

- Margaret Atwood

In the end, we'll all become stories.

- Margaret Atwood
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