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“"We will wait," answered little Alice, taking Nettie's hand in hers, and looking up to the sky, "we will wait - ever constant and true - till the times have got so changed as that everything helps us out, and nothing makes us ridiculous, and the fairies have come back. We will wait - ever constant and true - till we are eighty, ninety, or one hundred. And then the fairies will send US children, and we will help them out, poor pretty little creatures, if they pretend ever so much."”

Ifs Inspirational Children Littles Helping Hands Waiting Poor Sky Changed Creatures Hundred Constant Ridiculous Fairy Ninety Eighty

Book:The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Other Pieces

Source: The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Other Pieces

“Poor Mr. Pickwick! ... If he played a wrong card, Miss Bolo looked a small armoury of daggers; if he stopped to consider which was the right one, Lady Snuphanuph would throw herself back in her chair, and smile with a mingled glance of impatience and pity to Mrs. Colonel Wugsby, at which Mrs. Colonel Wugsby would shrug up her shoulders, and cough, as much as to say she wondered whether he ever would begin.”

Ifs Funny Poor Missing Humorous Shoulders Pity Cards Chairs Glances Impatience Daggers Colonels

Book:THE GREATEST DICKENS CLASSICS (Illustrated Edition): Oliver Twist, The Pickwick Papers, Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, Hard Times, David Copperfield, A Christmas Carol, Bleak House, Little Dorrit, Our Mutual Friend, The Life of Dickens

Source: THE GREATEST DICKENS CLASSICS (Illustrated Edition): Oliver Twist, The Pickwick Papers, Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, Hard Times, David Copperfield, A Christmas Carol, Bleak House, Little Dorrit, Our Mutual Friend, The Life of Dickens

“Can you suppose there's any harm in looking as cheerful and being as cheerful as our poor circumstances will permit?”

Poor Words Of Wisdom Circumstances Harm Permit Cheerful

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)

“Archbishop Romero of El Salvador was a member of the Salvadoran aristocracy. He could not have risen to the top of the church hierarchy otherwise. But after he began voicing critical remarks about the war and concerned comments about the poor, he was assassinated.”

War Political Church Poor Members Concerned Critical Comment Hierarchy Remarks Risen Aristocracy El Salvador

Book:Dirty Truths

Source: Dirty Truths

“The rich have grown richer, but their tax rate has declined. The poor have grown poorer, but their taxes have increased.”

Political Poor Rich Taxes Rate

Author:Michael Parenti

“The ministers are in duty bound to denounce all intellectual pride, and show that we are never quite so dear to God as when we admit that we are poor, corrupt and idiotic worms; that we never should have been born; that we ought to be damned without the least delay.... The old creed is still taught. They still insist that God is infinitely wise, powerful and good, and that all men are totally depraved. They insist that the best man god ever made, deserved to be damned the moment he was finished.”

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“Think what the world could look like if we took care of the poor even half as well as we do our Bibles!”

Ifs Thinking World Wells Looks Care Poor Half

Author:Dorothy Day

“Manila is a city of extremes. The poor are very poor and the rich very rich. A constant reminder to the rich that there is another side to life.”

Sides Poor Cities Rich Constant Extremes Reminders Manila

Author:Arlene J. Chai

“Saying the Tech Bloom is not commercially driven is like saying Mother Teresa had an interest in the poor.”

Mother Interest Poor Driven Teresa

Author:Alex Steffen

“One effect of an individualistic culture that's poor at instilling mutual respect is that people jump more quickly to anger or violence.”

People Culture Poor Violence Effects Mutual Mutual Respect Individualistic

Author:Geoff Mulgan

“The wrongful arrest of tens of thousands of British Muslims after the September 11 attacks can be explained by the very poor intelligence the police had, and, just possibly, excused by the fact that a terrorist action in Britain linked to British Muslims would have been hugely damaging.”

Has Beens Facts Action Poor Police British Terrorist Britain September Linked September 11

Author:Geoff Mulgan

“Besides, I'd heard too many Karen Carpenter tales at Gladstone PTA meetings, and they often took the form of boasts. The prestigious diagnosis of anorexia seemed much coveted not only by the students but by their mothers, who would compete over whose daughter ate less. No wonder the poor girls were a mess.”

Form Mother Girl Poor Wonder Heard Students Daughter Meetings Tales Mess Boast Diagnosis Anorexia Carpenter Prestigious Pta Gladstone

Book:We Need To Talk About Kevin

Source: We Need To Talk About Kevin

“When the back-to-the-cities trend started taking root, albeit very unevenly, cities were so glad to finally land deals that they routinely overpaid, not having a solid grasp of the demographic and market forces they should have been channeling instead of subsidizing. It’s especially true for retail and entertainment projects, which generate very poor-quality jobs. I have yet to find a city that has figured out how to ‘take the foot off the pedal’ and stop over-subsidizing, even when gentrification becomes a problem.”

“A poor idea well written is more likely to be accepted than a good idea poorly written”

Wells Ideas Poor Written Accepted Good Ideas Well Written

Author:Isaac

“Obesity is a drain on the economy - we have to pay for the health care of fat people who are usually poor and can’t afford insurance. Obesity is, well, bad.”

People Wells Care Poor Pay Economy Fats Health Care Drains Obesity Fat People

Author:Emily Levine

“So too, since Christ has in principle defeated the fallen "gods" (principalities and powers) who have for ages inspired injustice, cruelty and apathy toward the weak, the poor the oppressed and the needy (Ps. 82), the church can hardly carry out its role in manifesting, on earth and in heaven, Christ's victory over these gods without taking up as a central part of its missions just these causes. We can, in truth, no more bifurcate social concerns and individual salvation than we can bifurcate the cosmic and anthropocentric dimensions of Christ's work on the cross.”

Source: God at War: The Bible & Spiritual Conflict

“Pale death knocks with impartial foot at poor men's hovels and king's palaces.”

Men Art Death Poor Feet Kings Pale Palaces Monarchy Poor Man

Author:Horace

“Poverty urges us to do and suffer anything that we may escape from it, and so leads us away from virtue.”

May Suffering Poor Poverty Virtue Urges

Author:Horace

“He, that holds fast the golden mean, And lives contentedly between The little and the great, Feels not the wants that pinch the poor, Nor plagues that haunt the rich man's door, Imbitt'ring all his state.”

Men Want Feels Mean Littles States Poor Rich Doors Rings Golden Moderation Plague Rich Man Hold Fast Golden Mean

Book:Horace in English

Source: Horace in English

“Go, all of you poor people, in the name of God the Creator, and let him forever be your guide. And henceforth, do not be beguiledby these idle and useless pilgrimages. See to your families, and work, each one of you, in your vocation, raise your children, and live as the good Apostle Paul teaches you.”

People Children Wisdom Names Poor Teach Forever Our Children Raises Creator Guides Useless Our Family Your Children Idle Vocation Poor People Prudence Apostles Pilgrimage Apostle Paul

Author:Francois Rabelais

“Poor humanity, to saddle the gods with such a responsibility and throw in a vindictive temper. What griefs they hatch for themselves, what festering sores for us, what tears for our prosperity! This is not piety, this oft-repeated show of bowing a veiled head before a graven image; this bustling to every altar; this kow-towing and prostration on the ground with palms outspread before the shrines of the gods; this deluging of vow on vow. True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.”

“But amid much elegance and precision, the details of life and the Universe also exhibit haphazard, jury-rigged arrangements and much poor planning. What shall we make of this: an edifice abandoned early in construction by the architect?”

Source: Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

“Because the bill vests in the said incorporated church an authority to provide for the support of the poor and the education of poor children of the same, an authority which, being altogether superfluous if the provision is to be the result of pious charity, would be a precedent for giving to religious societies as such a legal agency in carrying into effect a public and civil duty.”

Source: Selected Writings of James Madison

“Bryan - a great friend of mine, by the way - had a Neanderthal type of head, Burbank says. As to Riley, he has not even the oratorical skill of Bryan. The whole movement is based on the poor whites of the south.”

Way Whole Poor Atheism Movement Mines Type Skills South Positive Atheism Great Friend Bryan Neanderthals

Author:Luther Burbank

“If you withdraw the incredible focus on polio, it will spread back, and in poor countries you'll get something like 100,000 cases a year. So by being very intense and getting the cases down to zero, what you do is you avoid all the future cases.”

Ifs Years Country Poor Cases Focus Incredibles Spread Intense Zero Poor Countries Polio

Author:Bill Gates

“I was trained mainly as a short story writer and that's how I started writing, but I've also become very interested in non-fiction, just because I got a couple of magazine jobs when I was really poor and needed the money and it turned out that non-fiction was much more interesting than I thought it was.”

Writing Stories Jobs Interesting Poor Fiction Couple Needed Magazines Short Story Non Fiction Story Writers

Author:David Foster Wallace

“My father was really good with math. It's a funny thing, I don't remember my father or my mother being so mechanical-minded. My father always wanted to be a doctor, but he came from a really poor family in Georgia, and there was no way he was going to be a doctor.”

Way Wanted Remember Mother Father Poor Doctors Math Funny Things Georgia Poor Family

Author:Herbie Hancock

“I'm a Christian. I believe that greatness has to do with the quality of love shown to the least of thy brethren and the quality of service to those who are catching hell. When you look at it in that sense, I'd say America has had great moments, but I wouldn't call it a great nation. I don't think there have been any great nations in the history of the world, because in every nation you find poor people being subjugated. So, I see the term "great nation" as a contradiction, as an oxymoron.”

“The most important assets we have are our bodies and our energy which can be put to good use as resources in political activism for poor and working people.”

People Important Use Body Political Energy Poor Resources Activism Assets Political Activism

Author:Cornel West

“The love of wisdom is a way of life; that is to say, it's a set of practices that have to do with mustering the courage to think critically about ourselves, society, and the world; mustering the courage to empathize; the courage, I would say, to love; the courage to have compassion with others, especially the widow and the orphan, the fatherless and the motherless, poor and working peoples, gays and lesbians, and so forth - and the courage to hope.”

Thinking World Way Poor Compassion Practice Gay Widows Orphan Fatherless

Author:Cornel West

“People just relate to me. They know I'm a regular person brought up in a hardworking, poor family, that I've had all the struggles that people have. I'm just a friendly person. And I hopefully have a good sense of humor. People get a kick out of my stupidity.”

People Knows Persons Poor Struggle Stupidity Hopefully Relate Kicks Friendly Sense Of Humor Good Sense Hardworking Good Sense Of Humor Poor Family Friendly Person

Author:Dolly Parton

“It doesn't matter where you came from, it doesn't matter how poor you are, it doesn't matter where your family was. It all doesn't matter. You can achieve anything if you have really clear goals and if you work really hard to learn what you need to learn.”

Ifs Needs Matter Hard Goal Poor Clear Achieve Our Family Clear Goals

Author:Brian Tracy

“People are quite clear in viewing nuns as the servants and the teachers and the supporters of the poor. You contrast that with the fact that the Vatican did virtually nothing about long-known pedophiles, and it's just too much.”

People Long Facts Poor Known Clear Too Much Teacher Servant Contrast Supporter Nun

Author:Gloria Steinem

“You can't break poor people mentality. Once you grow up poor, you don't take anything for granted. It can have the negative side also because you can never truly be relaxed.”

People Grows Sides Poor Break Growing Up Negative Granted Mentality Relaxed Poor People Don't Take Anything For Granted

Author:Will Smith

“People have habits about what they think songs should be like. There's the folky thing of: "Poor me, I'm a sensitive person in a cruel world." Or the pop thing of: "Hey, look at me, I'm sexy."”

People Thinking World Should Looks Persons Song Poor Habit Sexy Pops Hey Sensitive Look At Me Cruel World Sensitive Person Poor Me

Author:Robert Wyatt

“The gap between rich and poor is, in fact, widening enormously. This idea of building up the powers of people who are already powerful and keeping everyone else back is a recipe for endless misery and conflict.”

People Ideas Facts Poor Powerful Rich Building Conflict Misery Endless Gaps Recipes Rich And Poor Building Up

Author:Robert Wyatt

“Money has not changed me. I am living proof. I'm worse than I was, all right, when I was poor. I don't care about money. Money - you can't buy me. And I don't care about it.”

Care Poor Changed Don't Care Proof I Don't Care Living Proof

Author:Bill O'Reilly

“I feel badly for them, not sorry, but badly, because I think they've been given poor breaks and difficult, not sufficient opportunity to be who they are and sort of put into that straitjacket with the tie, and all of the things that is really built like a straitjacket when you look at it, and tied up in a sort of a way where their purpose had to be slimmed down to just certain things, and function pared down to the linear, and it is very difficult for men.”

Thinking Men Way Feels Looks Purpose Certain Opportunity Given Difficult Poor Break Built Function Sorry Ties Sufficient Tied Linear Tied Up Not Sorry

Author:Maya Tiwari

“That's the cool thing about horses - they don't have prejudice. They don't care if you're tall or thin or if you're dark or if you're light, or if you're rich or you're poor, if you're handsome or not so handsome.”

Ifs Light Care Dark Poor Rich Horse Prejudice Don't Care Tall Handsome Cool Things

Author:Buck Brannaman

“Conservatives are better talking about opportunity and growth in the abstract, while liberals talk more about poor people. Right now we [americans] need a good, optimistic, conservative opportunity ideology that is totally geared toward lifting up the poor. That's what I most want to see in candidates.”

People Want Needs Opportunity Growth Poor Talking Conservative Optimistic Ideology Abstract Candidates Poor People Lifting Lifting Up Good Optimistic

Author:Arthur C. Brooks

“How can you trust people who are poor and own no property? ... Inequality of property will exist as long as liberty exists.”

People Long Poor Liberty Property Inequality

Author:Alexander Hamilton

“The profession of letters is, after all, the only one in which one can make no money without being ridiculous.”

Poor Letters Profession Ridiculous No Money

Book:The journal of Jules Renard

Source: The journal of Jules Renard

“What's the greatest enemy of Christianity to-day? Frozen meat. In the past only members of the upper classes were thoroughly sceptical, despairing, negative. Why? Among other reasons, because they were the only people who could afford to eat too much meat. Now there's cheap Canterbury lamb and Argentine chilled beef. Even the poor can afford to poison themselves into complete scepticism and despair.”

People Reason Past Poor Christianity Enemy Class Too Much Members Despair Negative Meat Poison Skepticism Frozen Lambs Beef Upper Class Scepticism Chilled Canterbury

Book:The collected works of Aldous Huxley

Source: The collected works of Aldous Huxley

“The innocence of those who grind the faces of the poor, but refrain from pinching the bottoms of their neighbour's wives! The innocence of Ford, the innocence of Rockefeller! The nineteenth century was the Age of Innocence--that sort of innocence. With the result that we're now almost ready to say that a man is seldom more innocently employed than when making love.”

Men Age Faces Poor Results Wife Century Ready Bottom Greed Lust Innocence Making Love Employed Neighbour Grind Nineteenth Century Refrain Pinching Love Lust

Book:The collected works of Aldous Huxley

Source: The collected works of Aldous Huxley

“Culture is like the sum of special knowledge that accumulates in any large united family and is the common property of all its members. When we of the great Culture Family meet, we exchange reminiscences about Grandfather Homer, and that awful old Dr. Johnson, and Aunt Sappho, and poor Johnny Keats.”

Culture Poor United Common Special Members Property Awful Grandfather Drs Aunt Johnson Dr Johnson United Family

Book:Complete Essays: 1920-1925

Source: Complete Essays: 1920-1925

“There is a vulgar persuasion, that the ignorance of women, by favoring their subordination, ensures their utility. 'Tis the same argument employed by the ruling few against the subject many in aristocracies; by the rich against the poor in democracies; by the learned professions against the people in all countries.”

People Country Poor Democracy Rich Subjects Ignorance Argument Profession Persuasion Employed Vulgar Ruling Utility Aristocracy Elitism Subordination

Book:Course of popular lectures as delivered by Frances Wright: with three addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789. Second edition

Source: Course of popular lectures as delivered by Frances Wright: with three addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789. Second edition

“Music is of two kinds: one petty, poor, second-rate, never varying, its base the hundred or so phrasings which all musicians understand, a babbling which is more or less pleasant, the life that most composers live.”

Kind Two Poor Music Musician Music Is Hundred Rate Pleasant Composer Petty Second Rate Babbling

Author:Honore de Balzac

“The most sublime courage I have ever witnessed has been among that class too poor to know they possessed it, and too humble for the world to discover it.”

Knows World Has Beens Poor Class Courage Humble Possessed Sublime

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“If a man is indolent, let him be poor. If he is drunken, let him be poor.... Also--somewhat inconsistently--blessed are the poor!”

Ifs Men Poor Blessed

Book:Pygmalion and Major Barbara

Source: Pygmalion and Major Barbara

“Such poverty as we have today in all our great cities degrades the poor, and infects with its degradation the whole neighborhood in which they live. And whatever can degrade a neighborhood can degrade a country and a continent and finally the whole civilized world, which is only a large neighborhood.”

World Country Whole Today Poor Cities Poverty Neighborhood Civilized Continents Degradation Degrade Great Cities