Poor Quotes
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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.
Mahershala Ali
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Poor Desdemona! I am glad thy father's dead. Thy match was mortal to him, and pure grief Shore his old thread in twain.
William Shakespeare
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If your experiences suggest to you that poor black folk are lazy, then you must be true to those experiences - except, however, as your experiences are pressured by empirical investigation of complex phenomena. I suspect that even when you control for variables of individual laziness, you'll see that what you see before you masses of black poor people unwilling to work hard to get better will not be as simply concluded as you might at first believe. Continue your good work.
Michael Eric Dyson
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You are a dear soul who plays polo, and I am a poor Pole who plays solo.
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
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A smart mother makes often a better diagnosis than a poor doctor.
August Bier
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At that time [1909] the chief engineer was almost always the chief test pilot as well. That had the fortunate result of eliminating poor engineering early in aviation.
Igor Sikorsky
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I'm concerned about - the oppression of the poor.
Pat Robertson
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As far as I can recall, the initial shiver of inspiration [for Lolita] was somehow prompted by a newspaper story about an ape in the Jardin des Plantes, who, after months of coaxing by a scientist, produced the first drawing ever charcoaled by an animal: this sketch showed the bars of the poor creature's cage.
Vladimir Nabokov
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Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain.
Edmund Waller
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It is apparent at first glance that in The Double there is more creative talent and depth of thought than in Poor Folk. But meanwhile the consensus of St. Petersburg readers is that this novel is intolerably long-winded and therefore terribly boring.
Vissarion Belinsky
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But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
William Butler Yeats
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I never forgot being poor, and I never stopped thinking how fortunate I am.
Larry King
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We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There is no concept more generally cherished by publishers than that of the Undeserving Poor.
A. J. Liebling
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Let me not be afraid to defend the weak because of the anger of the strong, nor afraid to defend the poor because of the anger of the rich.
Alan Paton
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Poor countries are poor because they are wasting their resources.
Iqbal Quadir
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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.
Rajneesh
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How can something that's 95% water be so divisive? Alone among vegetables, the poor, innocent stick of celery elicits the most vicious attacks.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites; for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior.
William Shenstone
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What ObamaCare did was take some of the things we did for the poor and expanded the government to basically the whole marketplace.
Rand Paul
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You must do as your people do. If my people are poor, I must be poor. People ask me, 'Why don't you find a personal coach or a private car?' I can't. Then I won't be part of my people.
Haile Gebrselassie
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We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.
P. Chidambaram
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A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
Albert Einstein
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I come from a poor family.
Manny Pacquiao