Poor Quotes
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I grew up with this kind of grocery store that caters to the poor. They serve you the worst food.
Sandra Cisneros
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Rich honesty dwells like a miser, Sir, in a poor house; as your pearl in your foul oyster.
William Shakespeare
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Politicians will not put forth programs aimed at the problems of poor blacks while their turnout remains so low.
Henry Louis Gates
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I am a seeker, a poor, sinful creature, there is no weaker than I.
Dolly Parton
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At this moment, everyone is in crisis, not only in Italy but all over Europe. Only in America do they make films that are successful all over the world. In Europe, production is quite poor. We have three or four or five films, which is not enough.
Sofia Villani Scicolone
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Whether you are rich or poor, beautiful or ugly, young or old, cancer knows no boundaries.
Sylvie Meis
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We tried to provide more for the poor and produced more poor instead. We tried to remove the barriers to escape poverty, and inadvertently built a trap.
Charles A. Murray
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It was a different sexual situation going on than it is in the '80s and '90s, and I did a very poor job of describing that.
Wilt Chamberlain
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From the very beginning, our state and national constitutions and laws have laid great emphasis on procedural and substantive safeguards designed to assure fair trials before impartial tribunals in which every defendant stands equal before the law. This noble ideal cannot be realized if the poor man charged with crime has to face his accusers without a lawyer to assist him.
Hugo Black
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The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
Seneca the Younger
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There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls, Doing more murder in this loathsome world, Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell.
William Shakespeare
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Bill Cosby is a famous black guy who has a bully pulpit the size of the world; it's global. He puts his colossal foot on the vulnerable necks of poor people, and as a result of that, we don't have a balanced conversation.
Michael Eric Dyson
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Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
William James
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I've been to those places where it's 'poor, pitiful me.'
Dolly Parton
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My siblings and I were raised like tenants, to be honest. There was a total absence of intimacy in my family, though there was still a great deal of camaraderie among the kids. Things were set up almost like a business, and it had to be managed that way because we were really poor, and there were a lot of mouths to feed.
Sufjan Stevens
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The biggest and most deadly 'tax' rate on the poor comes from a loss of various welfare state benefits - food stamps, housing subsidies and the like - if their income goes up.
Thomas Sowell
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The first priority of any serious program against poverty is to strengthen the male role in poor families.
George Gilder
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And makes me poor indeed.
William Shakespeare
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We have a vow to give wholeheartedly everything to the poor.
Mother Teresa
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The rich get richer and the poor get the picture. I think this Occupy Wall Street thing is great.
Simon Baker
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There's an old saying,'It's a poor craftsman who blames his tools.' It's usually the player who misses those three-footers, not the putter.
Kathy Whitworth
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You see me here, you gods, a poor old man, As full of grief as age; wretched in both.
William Shakespeare
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If you believe that when the rich get richer, the poor get poorer, then you believe that creating wealth causes poverty, and you're an idiot.
Michael Medved
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In a change of masters the poor change nothing except their master's name.
Phaedrus