Poor Quotes
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Being is good, but getting rich is better.... If the gods had only the riches of men's adoration, they would be as poor as poor Caligula.
Albert Camus
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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.
Bill Gates
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The poor are the blacks of Europe.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
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People have habits about what they think songs should be like. There's the folky thing of: "Poor me, I'm a sensitive person in a cruel world." Or the pop thing of: "Hey, look at me, I'm sexy."
Robert Wyatt
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He who gives to the poor, lends to the Lord. But it may be said, not improperly, the Lord lends to us to give to the poor.
William Penn
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Humility exists only in those who are poor enough to see that they possess nothing of their own.
Angela of Foligno
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... the subjective viewpoint is the only one to use regarding a library. Your true library is a collection of the books you want.You may have deplorably poor taste or bad judgment. Never mind. Correct those traits before you exchange your books.
Carolyn Wells
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The poor have very few hours in which to enjoy themselves; they must take their pleasure raw; they haven't the time to cook it.
William Butler Yeats
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I grew up incredibly poor and went to school and had a very average upbringing.
Mila Kunis
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Poor people who had escaped from poverty as I had, feared it, hated it and fled from it all their lives. Those born rich could afford to be touched by it.
Anzia Yezierska
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Come away, come away, Death, And in sad cypress let me be laid; Fly away, fly away, breath, I am slain by a fair cruel maid. My shroud of white stuck all with yew, O prepare it! My part of death no one so true did share it. Not a flower, not a flower sweet, On my black coffin let there be strewn: Not a friend, not a friend greet My poor corpse, where my bones shall be thrown. A thousand thousand sighs to save, lay me O where Sad true lover never find my grave, to weep there!
William Shakespeare
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The poor are crazy, the rich just eccentric.
Ellen Raskin
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You have got to be willing to be poor as an entrepreneur.
Sean Parker
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When people get at each other's throat, the rich and the poor and the Left and the Right and so on, and you have a basic breakdown, that becomes very threatening.
Ray Dalio
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Today, the rich are the haves and the poor are the have-nots. Tomorrow, the rich will be the have-food and the poor will be the have-not food.
Bill Gaede
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I was determined not to remain poor.
Marshall Field
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Everyone chooses one of two roads in life - the old and the young, the rich and the poor, men and women alike. One is the broad, well-traveled road to mediocrity, the other road to greatness and meaning.
Stephen Covey
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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.
William Bolitho
