Poor Quotes
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How can something that's 95% water be so divisive? Alone among vegetables, the poor, innocent stick of celery elicits the most vicious attacks.
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You have never been poor, and never known what ambition is.
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Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.
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Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
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You shut out from your society the gentle and the good. You laugh at the simple and the pure. living, as you all do, on other and by them, you need at self-sacrifice, and if you throw bread to the poor, it is merely to keep them quiet for a season.
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Studies show that recipients of Section 8 vouchers have tended to choose moderately poor neighborhoods that were already on the decline, not low-poverty neighborhoods.
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The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.
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We are very fond of blaming the poor for destroying the environment. But often it is the powerful, including governments, that are responsible.
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Wishes, at least, are the easy pleasures of the poor.
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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.
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Amazon makes mistakes, including launching a smartphone in 2014 that was a flop and to which I gave a poor review.
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Where and when have riots and anarchy been provoked by wise measures? If the government had acted wisely, and if their measures had met the needs of the poor peasants, would there have been unrest among the peasant masses?
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America is such a great country, we have fat poor people.
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The capitalist system is about taking from the Earth and from the other great commodity, labour. What's happening with this system is that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer, and the only way out of it is supposed to be growth. But growth is debt. It's going to make the situation worse.
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People who are obsessed with Jesus live lives that connect them with the poor in some way or another. Obsessed people believe that Jesus talked about money and the poor so often because it was really important to Him.
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No matter where its seed fell, it made a tree which struggled to reach the sky. It grew in boarded-up lots and out of neglected rubbish heaps, and it was the only tree that grew out of cement. It grew lushly, but only in the tenements districts.... That was the kind of tree it was. It liked poor people.
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Unix in particular is very poor at network printing.
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One year's poor form remains a blip but if it happens next year, you can say it's a trend.
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I've been poor and I've been rich, and rich is better.
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He who knows how to be poor knows everything.
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It's hard being black. You ever been black? I was black once - when I was poor.
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Prose is a poor thing, a poor inadequate thing, compared with poetry which says so much more in shorter time.
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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.
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In the Dominican Republic, my mom and I lived in this little tiny town called Cabarete, which is very poor.
