Poor Quotes
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All evil results from the non-adaptation of constitution to conditions. This is true of everything that lives. Does a shrub dwindle in poor soil, or become sickly when deprived of light, or die outright if removed to a cold climate? it is because the harmony between its organization and its circumstances has been destroyed.
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When a man paints a naked woman he gives her less than poor Nature did. I can conceive of few circumstances wherein I would have to paint a woman naked, but if I did I would not mutilate her for double the money. She is the most beautiful thing there is except a naked man, but I never saw a study of one exhibited.
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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.
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We are not so poor we must destroy our wilderness, nor so rich we can afford to.
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When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas.
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If you live in poor neighborhoods - I know from living in several poor neighborhoods - the worst supermarkets in the city are in the poorest neighborhoods, where people don't have cars.
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The first priority of any serious program against poverty is to strengthen the male role in poor families.
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I grew up in the south, poor - on rock, dirt roads.
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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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The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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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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The rich get richer and the poor get the picture. I think this Occupy Wall Street thing is great.
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Actors never say they're poor. They're always broke. It's always just temporary. 'Broke' is 'poor with hope'.
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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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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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I heard the call to give up all and follow Christ into the slums to serve Him among the poorest of the poor. It was an order.
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The children of the poor are so apt to look as if the rich would have been over-blest with such! Alas for the angel capabilities, interrupted so soon with care, and with after life so sadly unfulfilled.
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To be able to proclaim the Good News to the poor we must know what is poverty.
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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.
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Poor communities, frequently communities of color but not exclusively, suffer disproportionately. If you look at where our industrialized facilities tend to be located, they're not in the upper middle class neighborhoods.
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Poverty doesn’t give you strength or teach you lessons about perseverance. No, poverty only teaches you how to be poor.
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I recognize now that the conditions that Indians are living in are the conditions that poor people everywhere are living in.
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Pray for me that I not loosen my grip on the hands of Jesus even under the guise of ministering to the poor.
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It is clear that the pharmaceutical industry is not, by any stretch of the imagination, doing enough to ensure that the poor have access to adequate medical care.
