Poor Quotes
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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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Jesus announced which will be the criteria of the final judgment of our lives: we will be judged according to love.We will be judged according to the poor of spirit or money.
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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 grew up in the south, poor - on rock, dirt roads.
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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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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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When a poor person dies of hunger it has not happened because God did not take care of him or her. It has happened because neither you nor I wanted to give that person what he or she needed.
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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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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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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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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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To help the poor to a capacity for action and liberty is something essential for one's own health as well as theirs: there is a needful gift they have to offer which cannot be offered so long as they are confined by poverty.
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To have a specific style is to be poor in speech.
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We think we do so much for the poor, but it is they who make us rich
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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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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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Gerald Boyd was a classic specimen of the self-made man. Born poor, he worked and studied his way up out of poverty under the guidance of his widowed grandmother.
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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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I never got a job from a poor person.
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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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Sometimes poor behavior is simply bad execution of good intent.
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Never knew how poor I was until I started making money.
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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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Marriage I think For women Is the best of opiates. It kills the thoughts That think about the thoughts, It is the best of opiates. So said Maria. But too long in solitude she'd dwelt, And too long her thoughts had felt Their strength. So when the man drew near, Out popped her thoughts and covered him with fear. Poor Maria! Better that she had kept her thoughts on a chain, For now she's alone again and all in pain; She sighs for the man that went and the thoughts that stay To trouble her dreams by night and her dreams by day.
