Poor Quotes
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The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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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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There is no concept more generally cherished by publishers than that of the Undeserving Poor.
A. J. Liebling
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I come from a poor family.
Manny Pacquiao
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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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To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.
William Cobbett
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A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
Albert Einstein
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Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites; for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior.
William Shenstone
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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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We are not Marxist or capitalist; we are for the poor people.
Mamata Banerjee
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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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Guilt, the poor man's mind control.
Karen Kijewski
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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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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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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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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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Poor privileged white men. Their stranglehold on power is slowly being loosened.
Madeleine M. Kunin
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You can't just lecture the poor that they shouldn't riot or go to extremes. You have to make the means of legal redress available.
Harold H. Greene
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You know, I am sorry for the poor fellows that haven't got labs to work in.
Ernest Rutherford
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You do not have to have money to attract money, but you cannot feel poor and attract money. The key is, you have to find ways of improving the way you feel from right where you stand before things can begin to change: By softening your attention to the things that are going wrong, and by beginning to tell stories that lean more in the direction of what you want instead of in the direction of what you have got, your vibration will shift; your point of attraction will shift - and you will get different results.
Esther Hicks
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In the Dominican Republic, my mom and I lived in this little tiny town called Cabarete, which is very poor.
Maika Monroe
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“If You Born Poor,It is not your mistake, but if you die poor,it is your mistake”
William H. Gates, Sr.
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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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Prose is a poor thing, a poor inadequate thing, compared with poetry which says so much more in shorter time.
Vita Sackville-West