Poor Quotes
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Poor and afflicted and oppressed people have faces, and we are required to look squarely into them. We can't love what we won't experience.
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The poor are crazy, the rich just eccentric.
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People who are obsessed with God are known as givers, not takers. Obsessed people genuinely think that others matter as much as they do, and they are particularly aware of those who are poor around the world.
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He felt poor, as well, although he didn’t consider himself poor. He considered himself free.
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Dependency arguments often come from elites - either aid agencies or governments - and say something about attitudes to poor people.
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A poor surgeon hurts one person at a time. A poor teacher hurts 130.
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You see me here, you gods, a poor old man, As full of grief as age; wretched in both.
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My mother bought me a brand new suit for going away to college. We were poor, but she wanted me to have that. It was a powder blue suit with peg pants - you know, skinny at the bottom. I think I made quite an impression with that.
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Though my father was poor and had nothing, the Torah, the poetry of prophets, was his daily bread.
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Have the courage to appear poor and you disarm poverty of its sharpest sting.
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We're all going to face extreme stress in our lives, there's no one who is going to escape that. That's the one thing, rich or poor, I don't care who you are, you're going to lose.
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Only the poet has any right to be sorry for the poor, if he has anything to spare when he has thought of the dull, commonplace rich.
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What happens from about 1954 to the late 1980s, is that we see a huge wave of optimism that school desegregation is going to be the way to improve educational outcomes for poor children of color. And we see a consensus build on the left and in the center that this is going to be a transformative education movement like none other we've seen in American history.
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The power of capitalism to mediate the gap between rich and poor is pretty incredible. Indeed, I think, year by year, the gap gets less.
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Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned in it.
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It's harder to be a poor person than anything else.
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Humility exists only in those who are poor enough to see that they possess nothing of their own.
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I had loved magic tricks from the time I was six or seven. I bought books on magic. I did magic acts for my parents and their friends. I was aiming for show business from early days, and magic was the poor man's way of getting in: you buy a trick for $2, and you've got an act.
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..And the same rapper who revels in a woman's finely proportioned behind may also speak against racism and on behalf of the poor, even as he encourages them not to look at hip-hop as their salvation.
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Wal-Mart has done more for poor people then any ten liberals, at least nine of whom are almost guaranteed to hate Wal-Mart.
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Poor is the new black.
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They gave me star treatment when I was making a lot of money. But I was just as good when I was poor.
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Back in the thirties we were told we must collectivize the nation because the people were so poor. Now we are told we must collectivize the nation because the people are so rich.
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The rich did not care who ruled, as long as they were allowed to be rich. The poor could not afford to care and nobody asked their opinion in any case. Only the middle class mattered and any half-witted ruler knows how to pamper them.
