Poor Quotes
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My father was a factory worker, and we were really poor. But everything I earned peddling papers and working in stores, he made me put aside for education.
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I have the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain.
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I grew up in a very large, poor family.
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... frugality makes a poor man rich.
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If a man is indolent, let him be poor. If he is drunken, let him be poor.... Also--somewhat inconsistently--blessed are the poor!
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Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury is the luxury of the rich.
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Like so many families, we were dealing with limited means. We weren't poor at all, but we had some challenging times financially. When my stepdad got laid off... we were really trying to find our footing for a couple of years.
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I experienced firsthand what it means to be poor, what it means to go hungry, and that, I think, may be the reason, the root cause of why I'm able to work so hard, even these days.
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The privileged classes today are bothered about petrol and diesel prices while the poor can't afford two meals a day. I am a very small person, but I want us to think beyond personal and regional interests.
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It is a poor cause which has to be lied for regularly.
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On the eve of the strike, we saw very, very poor performance.
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It's such a Bore Being always Poor.
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The man with a clear conscience probably has a poor memory.
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The poor and minorities are disproportionately both crime's perpetrators and its victims. People are saddened when this happens but not surprised.
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Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
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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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You are a dear soul who plays polo, and I am a poor Pole who plays solo.
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The UK has a poor investment record. According to IMF data, we have come seventh out of the top seven industrialised countries since 1999.
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You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom.
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My entire childhood was steeped in poverty. For me, poverty, in a way, was the first inspiration of my life, a commitment to do something for the poor.
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All of the religions are looking after the poor. At least leave me alone to look after the rich. I am the rich man's guru.
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Philanthropy is natural. For a mother, taking care of her children is natural. If I am rich, I take care of the poor, like a mother would.
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I never forgot being poor, and I never stopped thinking how fortunate I am.
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We are, all of us, poor wretches, and those who prefer not to understand this are even worse off than the rest of us.
