Poor Quotes
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It is a curious phenomena that God has made the hearts of the poor, rich and those of the rich, poor.
Vinoba Bhave
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Almsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty; aid does away with it once and for all. Almsgiving leaves a man just where he was before. Aid restores him to society as an individual worthy of all respect and not as a man with a grievance. Almsgiving is the generosity of the rich; social aid levels up social inequalities. Charity separates the rich from the poor; aid raises the needy and sets him on the same level with the rich.
Evita Peron
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Sacred cows make very poor gladiators.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
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Care for us! True, indeed! They ne'er cared for us yet: suffer us to famish, and their storehouses crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act established against the rich, and provide more piercing statutes daily to chain up and restrain the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and there's all the love they bear us.
William Shakespeare
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What women would do if they could not cry, nobody knows. What poor, defenceless creatures they would be!
Douglas Jerrold
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We're not so poor that we have to spend our wilderness or so rich that we can afford to.
Newton B. Drury
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Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks
William Shakespeare
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Walk with the rich Walk with the poor Learn from everybody That's what life is for.
Eric Bibb
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Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.
William Shakespeare
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Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.
Mother Teresa
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The poor never get the job done they are sleepy.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Racism is the snobbery of the poor.
Raymond Aron
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Do diddle di do, Poor Jim Jay Got stuck fast In Yesterday.
Walter de La Mare
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A poor original is better than a good imitation.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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My aim is to make the poor look rich and the rich look poor.
Vivienne Westwood
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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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I know what it's like to be pregnant and nervous and poor.
Loretta Lynn
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Generally speaking in America, a lot of environmentally problematic facilities tend to be located in places where poor folks live because wealthier folks have the ability to say, "not in my backyard."
Barack Obama
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Wealth covers sin - the poor / Are naked as a pin.
Kassia
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Superheroes are mostly aimed at young teen-age males concerned with their manhood. The medium will have to address itself more to content. . . . I see 22 year olds draw massive Schwarzenegger types, outfitted with metal studs, pressing a mostly naked woman to their breastplates. And I think Poor girl, thats got to be cold.
Will Eisner
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The writer Denise Chávez comments on poor food and what you associate with luxury food items. In fact, she wrote a whole book called A Taco Testimony, and though the title sounds light, it's a heavy book. It's about being working class and what kind of food is available to you that's cheap.
Sandra Cisneros
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My friends were poor, but honest, so's my love.
William Shakespeare
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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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The future lies with those companies who see the poor as their customers.
C. K. Prahalad