Poor Quotes
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The gap between the rich and the poor is wider in the United States than it is in any of the other industrialized nations.
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Poor artist! You gave away part of your soul when you painted the picture which you are now trying to dispose of.
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I am Catholic but I want to say something to the Catholics. Thank you for some of the bishops who live in rural areas, and are still Catholic. These bishops of the Catholic churches still pray for the poor, and pray for their president who works for the poor, while the leaders of the Catholic Church only defend oligarchy.
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Get to know the poor in your country. Love them. Serve them.
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I never got a job from a poor person.
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I came upon a doctor who appeared in quite poor health. I said, 'There's nothing that I can do for you that you can't do for yourself.' He said, 'Oh yes you can. Just hold my hand. I think that that would help.' So I sat with him a while then I asked him how he felt. He said, 'I think I'm cured.'
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It sucks to be poor, and it sucks to feel that you somehow deserve to be poor. You start believing that you're poor because you're stupid and ugly. And then you start believing that you're stupid and ugly because you're Indian. And because you're Indian you start believing you're destined to be poor. It's an ugly circle and there's nothing you can do about it.
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Most leaders would agree that they’d be better off having an average strategy with superb execution than a superb strategy with poor execution. Those who execute always have the upper hand.
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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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I do think, half of what we call madness is just some poor slob dealing with pain by a strategy that annoys the people around him.
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Prayer makes your heart bigger, until it is capable of containing the gift of God himself. Prayer begets faith, faith begets love, and love begets service on behalf of the poor.
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We should not serve the poor like they were Jesus. We should serve the poor because they are Jesus.
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The rich man can afford to be happy and wise; the poor man is wiser still, for he understands sadness.
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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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Happiness and suffering do not depend on being poor or rich, they depend on having the right or wrong understanding in our mind.
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'Is that really the best you can say? An average-looking boy? An awful lot of boys are average-looking, S.Q.!' And poor S.Q., he just kept arguing that 'this boy was especially average-looking.' " ~ Kate Wetherall, The Mysterious Benedict Society
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The good thing about poverty is it keeps you from getting in trouble because if you can't afford drugs, people will stop giving them to you very quickly. So, being poor really helps - it's the success that kills you.
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Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.
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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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Sometimes poor behavior is simply bad execution of good intent.
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Whene'er I take my walks abroad,How many poor I see!What shall I render to my GodFor all his gifts to me?
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The entire gamut of scandal, hate, and lying is prepared for a poor man in this world who dares to work for the truth. That is why they got rid of me too: they feared me, for wickedness fears Truth.
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When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas.
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A poor leader will tell you how many people work for them. A great leader will tell you how many people they work for.
