Poor Quotes
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So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without undergoing the agonies of the damned, but give him a little metal, a few chemicals, some wire and twenty or thirty billion dollars and vroom! there he is, up on a rock a quarter of a million miles up in the sky.
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I know the struggles of poor people, and have always kept that with me.
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How poor are they that have have not patients.
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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.
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I usually have poor to absent relations with editors because they have a habit of desiring changes and I resist changes.
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Where money is an idol, to be poor is a sin.
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The lily in splendor, the vine in her grace, The fox in the forest, all had their desire, As then I had mine, in the place that was happy and poor.
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Anyone who gives a lot of money to the poor must have robbed them first . . . poverty is only the result of the workers not getting proper reward for their labor.
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I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money.
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I grew up in South Florida, and my family was pretty poor. We weren't your upper-class whites by any means.
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Wealth covers sin - the poor / Are naked as a pin.
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The nominal budget is a poor indicator of the impact of government outlays and revenues.
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The world is poor because her fortune is buried in the sky and all her treasure maps are of the earth.
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Nothing, indeed, is more symptomatic of our modern lack of logic than our consciousness of the futility of mere material affluence in itself, and at the same time our pathetic belief that the salvation of the “poor” is to lift them into affluence!
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I was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I'm not ashamed of anything.
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No one likes to be treated like people in minority communities. What it's saying is that because you're poor, because you live in a neighborhood that deals with oppressed conditions, you deserve to be treated like a criminal. In our Constitution it says you have the right to live without illegal search and seizure.
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If you really want to help the poor, help the rich. They're the ones who will invest, build more factories, create more jobs.
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I do remember how it was to be poor. I do remember that in my early years, we had to grow and raise all of our food, even our animals. And I remember in my early life, we didn't even have electricity. So it was very, very hard times then.
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I come from the slums; I come from a hard background; I come from a poor family; and I was a soldier.
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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 there are people who feel that God wants them to change the structures of society, that is something between them and their God. We must serve him in whatever way we are called. I am called to help the individual; to love each poor person. Not to deal with institutions. I am in no position to judge.
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When rich villains have need of poor ones, poor ones may make what price they will
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Most of us aren't that interested in getting rich- we just don't want to get poor.
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Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?
