Claudius Claudianus Quotes
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In order for us as poor and oppressed people to become part of a society that is meaningful, the system under which we now exist has to be radically changed... It means facing a system that does not lend its self to your needs and devising means by which you change that system.
Ella Baker
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I've been poor and I've been rich, and rich is better.
Bessie Smith
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When there is no middle class, and the poor greatly exceed in number, troubles arise, and the state soon comes to an end.
Aristotle
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No one who desires to become good will become good unless he does good things.
Aristotle
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The more ugly, old, nasty, ill, and poor I become the more I want to get my own back by producing vibrant, well-arranged, radiant colour.
Vincent Van Gogh
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To many men much-wandering hope comes as a boon, but to many others it is the deception of vain desires.
Sophocles
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I believe the poor fierce-eyed child had figured out that with a mere fifty dollars in her purse she might somehow reach Broadway or Hollywood - or the foul kitchen of a diner (Help Wanted) in a dismal ex-prairie state, with the wind blowing, and the stars blinking, and the cars, and the bars, and the barmen, and everything soiled, torn, dead.
Vladimir Nabokov
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I need some isolation, it's necessary to me, that's just who I am. I need to be left alone.
Laura Marling
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Bach is an astronomer, discovering the most marvellous stars. Beethoven challenges the universe. I only try to express the soul and the heart of man.
Frederic Chopin
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It is the population which decides when it's time for a leader to leave, not foreign powers.
Paul Kagame
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Whoever desires is always poor.
Claudius Claudianus