Poor Quotes
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The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the world pays its 'debt' in the penitentiary or the poor house.
William Graham Sumner
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The poor lady must have dropped that", she said, and undid the gate stepping out to get it. Jared put his hand on it, "No". Mrs Jeffries stared down at him. "What do you mean...no?" Jared and Mrs.Jeffries stared back at each other,neither breaking eye contact in a perfect deadlock. Then Jared smiled at her. "I mean", he said with conviction, "it's mine." "It's what?" Jared stood up, pocketing the lipstick. "I know", he responded. "Everyone tells me i'm more of a summer". Mrs.Jeffries continued to stare. Jared continued to speak. "I'm going to go now. Me... and my lipstick.
Sarah Rees Brennan
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If you live according to nature, you never will be poor; if according to the world's caprice, you will never be rich.
Seneca the Younger
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Unless we believe and see Jesus in the appearance of bread on the altar, we will not be able to see him in the distressing disguise of the poor.
Mother Teresa
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The very flowers are sacred to the poor.
William Wordsworth
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Such poverty as we have today in all our great cities degrades the poor, and infects with its degradation the whole neighborhood in which they live. And whatever can degrade a neighborhood can degrade a country and a continent and finally the whole civilized world, which is only a large neighborhood.
George Bernard Shaw
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Whatever we get from the government or other people - even one rupee we get, we give it to the poor. Completely free service.
Mother Teresa
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When asked what was the proper time for supper: If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can.
Diogenes
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One of the great problems of the world today is undoubtedly this problem of not being able to talk to scientists, because we don't understand science; they can't talk to us because they don't understand anything else, poor dears.
Michael Flanders
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Christians should emphatically be campaigning for justice for the poor - but the Church is not a campaign.
Rowan Williams
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When a poor man, hungry and unseeing because his eyesight is failing, grabs me and starts begging, I feel the Nazi in myself. I abhor this man, and I want him to keep his hands off me.
George Stevens
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Most philanthropists would still rather donate to elite schools, concert halls or religious groups than help the poor or sick.
Noreena Hertz
