Poor Quotes
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Poor, successful, fallible Republican party! If it could only have kept the purity of the patriot impulse of which it was born!
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Everybody needs history but the people who need it most are poor folks - people without resources or options.
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If I were to say that I grew up in East Los Angeles in the projects poor, I assumed that everybody understood that it came with its own reasons for being the way I am. I didn't get that people needed to understand where my comedy came from; I thought that they knew that. Now I tell people.
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Oh, it were better to be a poor fisherman than to meddle with the government of men.
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Sadly, because of the enormous gap between rich and poor, some mothers can afford helpers, but many can't. Those who can would be kinder to refrain from criticizing other women.
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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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It's harder to be a poor person than anything else.
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I wonder if Eve could write letters in Paradise! But, poor Eve, she had no one to write to - no one to whom to tell what Eden was, no beloved child to whom her love traveled through any or all space. Poor Eve!
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I was asked why I did not give a rod with which to fish, in the hands of the poor, rather than give the fish itself as this makes them remain poor. So I told them: The people whom we pick up are not able to stand with a rod. So today I will give them fish and when they are able to stand, then I shall send them to you and you can give them the rod. That is your job. Let me do my work today.
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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.
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Were the superfluities of a nation valued, and made a perpetual tax or benevolence, there would be more alms-houses than poor, schools than scholars, and enough to spare for government besides.
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Any politician who starts shouting election-year demagoguery about the rich and the poor should be asked, "What about the other 90 percent of the people?"
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There is one class of men, whom it especially behoves to be tenacious of the right of free discussion. I mean the poor.
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Christianity is about learning to love like Jesus loved and Jesus loved the poor and Jesus loved the broken.
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We were so poor; the ultimate luxury in our house at the time was ashtrays without advertisements.
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Though men can cover crimes with bold, stern looks, poor women's faces are their own faults' books.
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Whether you are rich or poor, beautiful or ugly, young or old, cancer knows no boundaries.
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I created a foundation for poor children called Sinfonia por el Peru, where they play in orchestras and choirs, learn values and get away from the bad life, become better citizens in every aspect.
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Get to know the poor in your country. Love them. Serve them.
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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.
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Never knew how poor I was until I started making money.
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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.
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I think that a person who is attached to riches, who lives with the worry of riches, is actually very poor. If this person puts his money at the service of others, then he is rich, very rich.
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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.
