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“We were so poor we envied everyone we ever heard of.”

“Money is everything in this world to some people, and more than the next to other poor souls.”

People World Soul Next Poor Money This World

Book:Beulah

Source: Beulah

“Throughout the 1980s, we did hear too much about individual gain and the ethos of selfishness and greed. We did not hear enough about how to be a good member of a community, to define the common good and to repair the social contract. And we also found that while prosperity does not trickle down from the most powerful to the rest of us, all too often indifference and even intolerance do.”

“[On Sitting Bull:] The contents of his pockets were often emptied into the hands of small, ragged little boys, nor could he understand how so much wealth should go brushing by, unmindful of the poor.”

Should Littles Hands Wealth Poor Boys Sitting Pockets Bulls Little Boys Brushing Ragged

Author:Annie Oakley

“They are the kind of people who are embarrassed by money, a dead middle-class giveaway. Poor people are not embarrassed by money and are contemptuous of those who are.”

People Kind Poor Money Class Middle Middle Class Embarrassed Poor People Contemptuous

Book:Civil Wars

Source: Civil Wars

“For millions, the retirement dream is in reality an economic nightmare. For millions, growing old today means growing poor, being sick, living in substandard housing, and having to scrimp merely to subsist.”

Mean Dream Reality Age Today Poor Millions Growing Economic Sick Old Age Nightmare Retirement Housing Growing Old Being Sick

Book:Sylvia Porter's Money Book: How to Earn It, Spend It, Save It, Invest It, Borrow It, and Use it to Better Your Life

Source: Sylvia Porter's Money Book: How to Earn It, Spend It, Save It, Invest It, Borrow It, and Use it to Better Your Life

“Few footprints of the great remain in the sand before the ever-flowing tide. Long ago it washed out Homer's. Curiosity follows him in vain; Greece and Asia perplex us with a rival Stratford-upon-Avon. The rank of Aristophanes is only conjectured from his gift to two poor players in Athens. The age made no sign when Shakespeare, its noblest son, passed away.”

Long Made Two Age Poor Player Greatness Son Curiosity Vain Sand Tides Long Ago Asia Greece Rivals Footprint Passed Away Athens Avon

Author:Robert Aris Willmott

“If God, in the Christmas mystery, reveals himself not as One who remains on high and dominates the universe, but as the One who bends down, descends to the little and poor earth, it means that, to be like him, we should not put ourselves above others, but indeed lower ourselves, place ourselves at the service of others, become small with the small and poor with the poor. It is regrettable to see a Christian who does not want to lower himself, who does not want to serve. A Christian who struts about is ugly: this is not Christian, it is pagan.”

Want Mean Doe Use Shows Christian Universe Poor Nice Down And Bad Things Paganism Showing Off

Author:Pope Francis

“Extreme weather events continue to grow more frequent and intense in rich and poor countries alike, not only devastating lives, but also infrastructure, institutions, and budgets - an unholy brew which can create dangerous security vacuums.”

Country Grows Poor Rich Security Dangerous Events Institutions Climate Change Extremes Intense Weather Budgets Infrastructure Vacuums Rich And Poor Poor Countries Extreme Weather

Author:Ban Ki-moon

“Today the great gift of God's Creation is exposed to serious dangers and lifestyles which can degrade it. Environmental pollution is making particularly unsustainable the lives of the poor of the world ... we must pledge ourselves to take care of creation and to share its resources in solidarity.”

“We think of poverty as a condition simply meaning a lack of funds, no money, but when one sees fifth, sixth, and seventh generation poor, it is clear that poverty is as complicated as high finance.”

Thinking Poor Poverty Clear Generations Conditions Complicated Finance Fund Fifth No Money

Book:A Hero Ain't Nothin But a Sandwich

Source: A Hero Ain't Nothin But a Sandwich

“Alas! Much has been done of late to promote the production of dwarfish Christians. Poor, sickly believers turn the church into an hospital, rather than an army. Oh, to have a church built up with the deep godliness of people who know the Lord in their very hearts, and will seek to follow the Lamb wherever he goes!”

People Knows Heart Has Beens Done Christian Turns Church Poor Lord Late Built Army Productions Believer Hospitals Alas Lambs Godliness

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“Aside from the poor example it sets, the federal government enables reckless spending on public-employee pensions by offering hope of assistance from Washington if things get bad enough.”

Ifs Enough Government Poor Example Spending Employee Offering Federal Government Assistance Reckless Pension

Author:Devin Nunes

“Animals are so much quicker in picking up our thoughts than we are in picking up theirs. I believe they must have a very poor opinion of the human race.”

Believe Humans I Believe Animal Poor Race Opinion Human Race Our Thoughts

Author:Barbara Woodhouse

“If the nation is rich but people are poor, the country cannot be strong, and society will be unstable.”

People Ifs Country Strong Nations Poor Rich Unstable

Author:Zong Qinghou

“We dont need to solve the problem of the rich-poor gap. We need to solve the problem of common prosperity.”

Needs Problem Poor Common Rich Prosperity Solve Gaps Rich Poor

Author:Zong Qinghou

“We know that we are happy when our mind is peaceful, and unhappy when it is not. It is therefore clear that our happiness depends upon our having a peaceful mind and not on good external conditions. Even if our external conditions are poor, if we maintain a peaceful mind all the time we shall always be happy.”

Ifs Knows Mind Happiness Time Poor Clear Conditions Depends Happy Unhappy Peaceful Peace Of Mind Always Be Happy Peaceful Mind

Book:Modern Buddhism: The Path of Compassion and Wisdom - Volume 1 Sutra

Source: Modern Buddhism: The Path of Compassion and Wisdom - Volume 1 Sutra

“Poor dusky children of slavery, men and women of my own race-the transition from slavery to freedom was too sudden for you! The bright dreams were too rudely dispelled; you were not prepared for the new life that opened before you, and the great masses of the North learned to look upon your helplessness with indifference-learned to speak of you as an idle, dependent race. Reason should have prompted kinder thoughts. Charity is ever kind.”

Source: Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House

“The child--a skilled actor with a hundred masks: a different one for his mother, father, grandmother or grandfather, for a stern or lenient teacher, for the cook or maid, for his own friends, for the rich and poor. Naive and cunning, humble and haughty, gentle and vengeful, well behaved and willful, he disguises himself so well that he can lead us by the nose.”

“The self-made man is often proud of a poor job.”

Men Made Self Jobs Poor Pride Proud Self Made Self Made Man

Author:Ethel Mumford

“The rich and powerful want to believe in their right to be rich and powerful, so they justify it by saying they are inherently superior to the poor and lowly.”

Want Believe Poor Powerful Rich Superiors Justify Rich And Poor

Book:Tomorrow Is Forever: A Novel

Source: Tomorrow Is Forever: A Novel

“Always the idea of unbroken quiet broods around the grave. It is a port where the storms of life never beat, and the forms that have been tossed on its chafing waves lie quiet forevermore. There the child nestles as peacefully as ever it lay in its mother's arms, and the workman's hands lie still by his side, and the thinker's brain is pillowed in silent mystery, and the poor girl's broken heart is steeped in a balm that extracts its secret woe, and is in the keeping of a charity that covers all blame.”

“The unequal distribution of food is one of the world's most tragic facts. Millions of people die because they have too little to eat, and many die because they have too much.”

People World Littles Facts Dies Poor Millions Rich Too Much Hunger Tragic Distribution Rich And Poor

Author:Laura Huxley

“The little dog-eared books in the meeting-house proved poor reading ... So many of them were about unnaturally good children who never did wrong, and unnaturally bad children who never did right. At the end there was always the word MORAL, in big capital letters, as if the readers were supposed to be too blind to find it for themselves, and it had to be put directly across the path for them to stumble over.”

Ifs Children Littles Book Ends Bigs Reading House Poor Education Moral Path Dog Reader Letters Blind Meetings Supposed To Be

Author:Annie Fellows Johnston

“Poor, successful, fallible Republican party! If it could only have kept the purity of the patriot impulse of which it was born!”

Ifs Political Born Poor Party Successful Republican Impulse Purity Patriot Republican Party Political Parties

Book:Yesterdays in a Busy Life

Source: Yesterdays in a Busy Life

“The complexion of a novelist is seldom rosy (Paul Bailey once announced to a heavy-hearted audience of novelists at PEN that we have always been an ugly tribe). We are engaged in indoor activity, haemorrhoidal, prone to chillblains, poor of circulation.”

Poor Audience Activity Ugly Heavy Novelists Engaged Pens Tribes Hearted Circulation Rosy Complexion Heavy Hearted

Author:Jane Gardam

“Pride is a sweetmeat, to be savoured in small pieces; it makes for a poor feast.”

Poor Pieces Pride Small Pieces

Book:The Game: A novel of suspense featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes

Source: The Game: A novel of suspense featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes

“Wealth covers sin - the poor / Are naked as a pin.”

Wealth Sin Poor Rich Naked Pins Rich And Poor

Author:Kassia

“A Children’s Museum, however, is more of a Funatorium. You are encouraged to touch things, which is poor training for subsequent museum visitation.”

Children Poor Training Museums Visitation

Author:James Lileks

“Since the whole village was poor, we didnt realize our own poverty. I was happy.”

Whole Realizing Poor Poverty Village

Author:Bidzina Ivanishvili

“Money makes people bold and cosmopolitan; if you are poor, you are naturally conservative. Its not easy to be a bohemian when you have to worry about what is going to happen with you and with your next paycheck.”

People Ifs Happens Next Easy Poor Worry Conservative Paychecks Bohemian

Author:Antonio Munoz Molina

“We were so poor as kids. I didn't even see a bathtub, running water, hot water, commode - we didn't have any of that. We started with a humble log house, milk cow, garden-raised our own food, killed a hog every year in the fall, and had the meat hanging up in the smokehouse - that was our childhood, me and ol' Si.”

Years Running Kids Fall House Water Poor Childhood Garden Hot Our Children Raised Humble Meat Milk Cows Hog Hot Water Bathtubs Running Water

Author:Phil Robertson

“Above all, success in business requires two things: a winning competitive strategy, and superb organizational execution. Distrust is the enemy of both. I submit that while high trust won't necessarily rescue a poor strategy, low trust will almost always derail a good one.”

Two Winning Poor Enemy Lows Strategy Two Things Submit Execution Rescue Business Success Distrust Superb Organizational

Book:The Speed of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything

Source: The Speed of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything

“Socialists do not merely want a welfare state, they absolutely must have one. They must have a grovelling dependent class from which to obtain their daily opiate: an hallucinogenic euphoria which comes from the delusion of being superior to and more altruistic than all others. They must have 'the poor, huddled masses' in much the same manner as vampires must have the blood of their victims.”

Want States Poor Class Blood Mass Victim Superiors Vampire Welfare Dependent Delusion Welfare State Euphoria Opiates

Author:Edward Britton

“You have to be very productive in order to become excellent. You have to go through a poor period and a mediocre period, and then you move into your excellent period. It may be very well be that some of you have done quite a bit of writing already. You maybe ready to move into your good period and your excellent period. But you shouldn't be surprised if it becomes a very long process.”

Ifs Writing Wells May Long Done Moving Order Bits Process Poor Ready Periods Excellent Productive Mediocre

Author:Ray Bradbury

“The good thing about poverty is it keeps you from getting in trouble because if you can't afford drugs, people will stop giving them to you very quickly. So, being poor really helps - it's the success that kills you.”

People Ifs Giving Helping Poor Poverty Trouble Drug Good Things

Author:Tommy Chong

“We're being overrun by people who live in poor and corrupt countries who come to the USA to get work. But we got to regain our sovereignty, we're going to control our border, and there will be border security tied to the pathway to citizenship. There will be an earned pathway to citizenship. It will be available to everybody who works hard, pays a fine, passes a background check.”

People Country Hard Poor Pay Security Hard Work Fine Available Backgrounds Checks Borders Usa Tied Citizenship Sovereignty Pathways Background Checks Border Security

Author:Lindsey Graham

“When you're a political leader, when you represent the entire state or the entire country, not just Republicans or not just Democrats or not just the poor or not just the rich, you have to really represent everybody. No matter who contributes money, when you win, you represent everyone.”

Country Matter States Political Winning Poor Leader Rich Republican Democrat Political Leaders

Author:David Shuster

“The most poor and backward areas in the world are those in which women are subjugated and exploited. Improving the situation of the woman improves the family, the community, and by extension the whole country.”

World Country Whole Community Poor Situation Areas Improving Extensions

Author:Isabel Allende

“You are never going to have, in a country as rich as ours [the USA], that borders a country as poor as Mexico, an end to immigration. You just won't. The question is, if you make it humane and if you make it regulated. It's much better for an American worker to compete against a regulated immigrant inside labor standards, than it is to ever to compete against an illegal immigrant.”

Ifs Ends Country Poor Rich Standards Labor Workers Immigration Borders Usa Immigrants Illegal Mexico Humane Illegal Immigrants American Workers

Author:Ezra Klein

“I didn't say one negative word about poor people or about middle-class people or anything else. All I said was that the rich deserve our gratitude.”

People Said Poor Class Rich Middle Gratitude Deserve Negative Middle Class Poor People Negative Words

Author:Bernard Goldberg

“The president wants more tax money in Washington. I want more money left in the communities, particularly poor communities, particularly communities that have high unemployment.”

Want Left President Community Poor Taxes More Money Unemployment

Author:Rand Paul

“If you're white and you're rich in the USA, if you get busted for drugs, you get a good attorney, and you in all likelihood serve no time. But if you're poor, black, Hispanic, or poor and white for that matter, you can get put in jail.”

Ifs Matter Black White Poor Rich Drug Usa Jail Attorney Hispanic Likelihood Busted

Author:Rand Paul

“I think drugs affect poor people and people of color more than anyone.”

People Thinking Poor Color Drug Poor People

Author:Al Sharpton

“We know there are no weapons of mass destruction. But there are weapons of misdirection. Millions without health insurance, poverty abounds. For war, billions more, but no more for the poor.”

Knows War Poor Poverty Millions Weapons Mass Destruction Billions Weapons Of Mass Destruction Mass Destruction Misdirection

Author:Joseph Lowery

“My wife and I were poor when I started but we struggled along until things happened for me in my thirties. I knew I was doing what I loved even if I wasn't getting paid for it, so I think I'd still be doing it.”

Ifs Thinking Stills Poor Wife Happened Paid My Wife Things Happen

Author:Denis Leary

“New York is a city where it's particularly hard to be poor, not only because everything costs twice as much as it does elsewhere but because over-the-top affluence is part of its identity.”

Doe Hard Poor Cities New York Identity Cost Elsewhere Affluence Over The Top

Author:Anna Quindlen

“I write about, more or less, everything I can think of, that is I stretch my imagination as far as it'll go. I am kind of stuck in the middle as far as my life goes, and hence my imagination tends to zero in on things which are indeed in the middle. That is, I don't write about the very rich, who I scarcely know, or the very poor who I don't know very well either.”

Thinking Knows Writing Wells Kind I Can Imagination Poor Rich Middle Stuck Zero My Imagination Stuck In The Middle

Author:John Updike

“I would not be well-known if I had just used my gift to make money for me. The moment I started to teach others - you teach people to fish - I think that's why my book Rich Dad, Poor Dad became an international bestseller, and things like this.”

People Ifs Thinking Wells Book Moments Used Poor Known Teach Rich Dad International Fishes Making Money Well Known Rich Dad

Author:Robert Kiyosaki

“From being a dream, dams have become a very cynical corrupt enterprise; a way of letting governments lay their hands on huge sums of money; a way of centralizing resources; a way of snatching rivers away from the poor and giving them to the rich. And so in a sense they've become monuments to corruption.”

Way Giving Dream Hands Government Poor Rich Huge Letting Go Resources Rivers Lays Corruption Enterprise Cynical Monument Dams

Author:Arundhati Roy

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