Poor Quotes
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He wasn't completely wrong, poor old Gemistus (let Lord Andronicus and the patriarch suspect him if they like), in wanting us, telling us to become pagan once again.
C.P. Cavafy
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To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.
William Cobbett
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Lenders, including major credit companies as well as payday lenders, have taken over the traditional role of the street-corner loan shark, charging the poor insanely high rates of interest.
Barbara Ehrenreich
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The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.
Abraham Kuyper
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Many years ago, but not so long ago, there were those who said, 'Well, you have three strikes against you: You're black, you're blind and you're poor,' But God said to me, 'I will make you rich in the spirit of inspiration, to inspire others as well as create music to encourage the world to a place of oneness and hope, and positivity.' I believed Him and not them.
Stevie Wonder
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I decided, if I'm going to be poor and black and all, the least thing I'm going to do is to try and find out who I am. I created everything about me.
Ornette Coleman
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We are not Marxist or capitalist; we are for the poor people.
Mamata Banerjee
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I grew up in the projects in Queens, and we were really poor.
Nargis Fakhri
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Today in India there are all sections of people, as the BJP realized when the poor voted them out.
Lalu Prasad Yadav
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Poor privileged white men. Their stranglehold on power is slowly being loosened.
Madeleine M. Kunin
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I have a Creator who knew all things, even before they were made - even me, his poor little child.
Saint Patrick
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I have done a lot of work for affordable housing, rental housing. I understand the rap on me and other liberals is, oh, we push poor people into homeownership. And it's exactly the opposite of the case. We were trying to prevent those kinds of bad loans.
Barney Frank
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The poor are the human manure in which grow the harvests of life, the harvests of joy which the rich reap.
Octave Mirbeau
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Oh, pity the poor glutton Whose troubles all begin In struggling on and on to turn What's out into what's in.
Walter de La Mare
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Don't insult me today just because I'm poor, you don't know what my future holds!
William Kamkwamba
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The fictionally correct have all the answers, and that's what's wrong with them. They're artistic technocrats. There's no dilemma so knotty, no question so baffling, that it can't be smoothly neutralized by dialing up the right attitude adjustment. Poor old Hemingway. If only he'd known.
Walter Kirn
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No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Guilt, the poor man's mind control.
Karen Kijewski
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You have never been poor, and never known what ambition is.
Oscar Wilde
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People can very quickly have a very poor self-image. It doesn't take much.
Paddy Considine
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Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
Samuel Johnson
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Those who help the poor the most also hurt them the most.
James Cook
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This left-wing kind of speech, the Robin Hood thing that Pablo had, of course he was a criminal and a mean person, but it wasn't a false. He wasn't false. I don't know what kind of president he would be, maybe a very bad one, but I am sure he would do things for poor people - popular things that wouldn't solve their lives but would help them.
Wagner Moura