Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) Quotes
Today it is fashionable to talk about the poor. Unfortunately, it is not fashionable to talk with them.
Quotes to Explore
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It's such a Bore Being always Poor.
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I was always an avid reader of books. My vocabulary, my English are all thanks to that reading habit. Reading keeps me grounded. I came from a very middle class family – poor, in fact.
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To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
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Liberals have to get more comfortable with dealing with the poor as they actually are. I admire their refusal to look down on the least among us, but at some level, that can become an excuse to never really look at the problem at all.
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I'm concerned about - the oppression of the poor.
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It's hard being black. You ever been black? I was black once - when I was poor.
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They got money for wars, but can't feed the poor.
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Poor tired Tim! It's sad for him He lags the long bright morning through, Ever so tired of nothing to do.
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As towards most other things of which we have but little personal experience (foreigners, or socialists, or aristocrats, as the case may be), there is a degree of vague ill-will towards what is called Thinking. ... I am tempted to believe that much of the mischief thus laid at the door of that poor unknown quantity Thinking is really due to its ubiquitous twin-brother Talking.
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The sad fact is that people are poor because they have not yet decided to be rich. People are overweight and unfit because they have not yet decided to be thin and fit. People are inefficient time wasters because they haven't yet decided to be highly productive in everything they do.
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Poor or fuzzy communications are major time-wasters. Take the time to be crystal-clear in your communications with others.
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You know I have loved him always. But we are very poor. Who, being loved, is poor? Oh, no one. I hate my riches. They are a burden...
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In war," answered the weaver, "the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich make slaves of the poor. We must work to live, and they give us such mean wages that we die. We toil for them all day long, and they heap up gold in their coffers, and our children fade away before their time, and the faces of those we love become hard and evil. We tread out the grapes, another drinks the wine. We sow the corn, and our own board is empty. We have chains, though no eye beholds them; and are slaves, though men call us free.
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...in respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.
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Be not afraid of being called un-fashionable.
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You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom.
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Wishes, at least, are the easy pleasures of the poor.
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You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.
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If you're asking me in a general context whether I'm for or against the burkini, the response is simple: I oppose the burkini.
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If Hamas wants to be part of the real world, it has to end up accepting Israel's right to exist.
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Imagine a thousand more such daily intrusions in your life, every hour and minute of every day, and you can grasp the source of this paranoia, this anger that could consume me at any moment if I lost control.
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Today it is fashionable to talk about the poor. Unfortunately, it is not fashionable to talk with them.
