Poor Quotes
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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
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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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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.
Francis Chan
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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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One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.
Finley Peter Dunne
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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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Prose is a poor thing, a poor inadequate thing, compared with poetry which says so much more in shorter time.
Vita Sackville-West
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There is a valid nationwide sentiment of concern over public pensions, and poor funding ratios are viewed negatively by financial markets.
Walker Stapleton
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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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Lord, help my poor soul.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Those who help the poor the most also hurt them the most.
James Cook
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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.
Wangari Maathai
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Consumerism is, quite precisely, the consuming of life by the things consumed. It is living in a manner that is measured by having rather than being... and consumerism is hardly the sin of the rich. The poor, driven by discontent and envy, may be as consumed by what they do not have as the rich are consumed by what they do have. The question is not, certainly not most importantly, a question about economics. It is first and foremost a cultural and moral problem requiring a cultural and moral remedy.
Richard John Neuhaus
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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.
Gary Neville
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Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.
Samuel Johnson
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Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.
William Shakespeare
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John McCain's choice of Sarah Palin as running mate is the towering example of his poor judgment. Palin's ignorance of public affairs is monumental.
Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
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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.
Hanna Rosin
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The test is always how we treat the poor.
Robert Frost
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America is such a great country, we have fat poor people.
Carlos Mencia
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...in respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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I like fat girls. A woman can never be too poor or too fat. I'd take a poor fat girl over a rich thin girl like Kate Moss.
Sebastian Horsley
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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.
Vivienne Westwood
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[After a poor prognosis for recovery from her doctor following her 1990 bus accident] I said if it is up to me, I'm going to be OK.
Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine