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“The museum is full of interesting things. All kinds of paintings are there. And then paintings too thick to put in a frame, that they call sculpture. And then there are spectators. with their scorecards, rooting for culture. And spectators of the spectators, looking for love's introduction. And art students taking notes. And old women trying to remember the past. And old men with too much to forget. And tourists, thinking that a museum represents a city. And loafers so poor, they study their soberness here.”

“... nothing seems completely to differentiate the poor but poverty. We find no adjectives to fit them, as a whole, only those of which Want is the mother. "Miserable" covers many; "shabby" most, and I am sadly aware that, in a large majority of minds, "disagreeable" includes them all.”

Want Mind Whole Seems Mother Poor Poverty Fit Majority Miserable Disagreeable Adjectives Differentiate Shabby Classism

Book:Beauty for Ashes, by Albion Fellows Bacon; with Numerous Illustrations

Source: Beauty for Ashes, by Albion Fellows Bacon; with Numerous Illustrations

“It hurts me to hear the tone in which the poor are condemned as "shiftless," or "having a pauper spirit," just as it would if a crowd mocked at a child for its weakness, or laughed at a lame man because he could not run, or a blind man because he stumbled.”

Ifs Men Children Running Spirit Hurt Poor Weakness Blind Crowds Tone Laughed It Hurts Hurt Me Lame Social Class Blind Man

Book:Beauty for Ashes, by Albion Fellows Bacon; with Numerous Illustrations

Source: Beauty for Ashes, by Albion Fellows Bacon; with Numerous Illustrations

“... we see the poor as a mass of shadow, painted in one flat grey wash, at the remote edges of our sunshine.”

Poor Mass Shadow Edges Sunshine Flats Grey

Book:Beauty for Ashes, by Albion Fellows Bacon; with Numerous Illustrations

Source: Beauty for Ashes, by Albion Fellows Bacon; with Numerous Illustrations

“...I remembered the rose bush that had reached a thorny branch out through the ragged fence, and caught my dress, detaining me when I would have passed on. And again the symbolism of it all came over me. These memories and visions of the poor--they were the clutch of the thorns. Social workers have all felt it. It holds them to their work, because the thorns curve backward, and one cannot pull away.”

Social Felt Memories Poor Compassion Vision Dresses Rose Workers Caught Remembered Branches Fence Curves Social Work Thorns Symbolism Social Worker Clutch Ragged Rose Bush Detaining

Author:Albion Fellows Bacon

“I don't think actors are to blame for poor writing. The culture changes first, and the theater follows it. In the case of the movies, it's the same thing.”

Thinking Writing Firsts Culture Actors Poor Cases Theater Blame Culture Change

Author:Christopher Reeve

“I thought I'd be living a much more bohemian life and be very poor. I never thought I'd do comedy or be married living in the suburbs. Every time I try to plan my life out it just doesn't come to pass, and I think that's a great experience.”

Thinking Trying Poor Comedy Plans Married Being Married Suburbs Great Experiences Bohemian

Author:Michael Ian Black

“The greatest poverty one can have is to be poor in one's heart and for falling in love, he is truly happy. He discovers purpose.”

Heart Purpose Fall Poor Poverty Falling In Love Truly Happy

Author:Russell Brand

“Custom developed digital weapons, cyber weapons nowadays typically chain together a number of zero-day exploits that are targeted against the specific site, the specific target that they want to hit. But it depends, this level of sophistication, on the budget and the quality of the actor who's instigating the attack. If it's a country that's less poor or less sophisticated, it'll be a less sophisticated attack.”

Ifs Want Country Together Actors Poor Levels Numbers Quality Depends Weapons Chains Budgets Digital Target Customs Zero Sophisticated Site Exploits Sophistication Cyber

Author:Edward Snowden

“For me, digital is just another avenue. It doesn't mean that it has to be poor quality or poor content. But, you still run into the same struggles. You can't have full-on language, violence or sexual situations. You can't run rampant with the fact that it's digital. You can't do anything you want. You still have a responsibility to tell a story first, and show what the character is going through first, and then maybe you have a little bit of lee-way to show a more real side of life.”

“I love it when I meet a woman who was poor as a child and maybe had an abusive family, and broke out and found the one and they're married with a very healthy home and children, and they've let go of regret and their past and decided to embrace their journey and what that stands for.”

Children Home Past Found Poor Journey Regret Healthy Letting Go Married Decided Embrace Broke Abusive Found The One

Author:Abbie Cornish

“I had absolutely no focus as a kid. I never paid attention at school, I never went to college. Not because we were too poor; we were. But if I wanted to go to college, I would have found a way.”

Ifs Way Kids Wanted School Found Poor Attention Focus College Paid

Author:William Friedkin

“Music should be poor. Music should be with out air conditioning. That's just the way it is.”

Way Should Poor Air Conditioning Air Conditioning

Author:Shelby Lynne

“It struck me that many Christians flash around their 'no trans fat' label, trying to convince everyone they are healthy and good. Yet they have no substantive or healthful elements to their faith. It's like the Laodiceans, who thought they had everything until Christ told them they were poor and wretched.”

Trying Christian Christ Poor Healthy Elements Fats Labels Convince Flash Wretched Trans

Book:Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God

Source: Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God

“Late to bed, late to rise, makes a man unhealthy, poor, and stupid.”

Men Poor Stupid Bed Late Unhealthy

Author:Gregor Collins

“The Obama administration asked General Motors CEO Rick Wagoner to step down, and he agreed. This is good news for Obama; the last time he tried to get someone to quit, it took months -- and even then, he had to promise her a job as secretary of state. ... According to the government, Rick Wagoner was forced to resign because of poor performance. That's embarrassing -- run an organization that loses billions of dollars and then get fired by a guy who heads up an organization that loses trillions of dollars.”

“Like every poor person, I used to dream about winning the lottery. I didn't just get money, though. I got fame. And I got fame before I got money, and it was scary.”

Persons Dream Used Winning Poor Fame Scary Lottery Get Money Winning The Lottery

Author:Amber Rose

“If we love (the poor) people, we want to identify with them and share with them.”

People Ifs Want Poor Share Poor People Material Wealth

Author:Jean Vanier

“Not the children of the rich or of the powerful only, but of all alike, boys and girls, both noble and ignoble, rich and poor, in all cities and towns, villages and hamlets, should be sent to school”

Should Children School Girl Poor Powerful Cities Boys Rich Towns Noble Village Rich And Poor Boy And Girl Ignoble Active Minds Cities And Towns

Author:John Amos Comenius

“John McCain's choice of Sarah Palin as running mate is the towering example of his poor judgment. Palins ignorance of public affairs is monumental.”

Running Choices Poor Example Ignorance Judgment Affair Mates Mccain Palin Public Affairs

Author:Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

“Deep thinkers who look everywhere for the mysterious causes of poverty, ignorance, crime and war need look no further than their own mirrors. We are all born into this world poor and ignorant, and with thoroughly selfish and barbaric impulses. Those of us who turn out any other way do so largely through the efforts of others, who civilized us before we got big enough to do too much damage to the world or ourselves.”

Source: Compassion Versus Guilt and Other Essays

“How can God stoop lower than to come and dwell with a poor humble soul? Which is more than if he had said, such a one should dwell with him; for a beggar to live at court is not so much as the king to dwell with him in his cottage.”

Ifs Should Said Soul Poor Kings Court Humble Beggar Advent Cottages Stoops Advent Christmas

Book:The Christian in Complete Armour: A Treatise of the Saints' War Against the Devil, Wherein a Discovery is Made of that Grand Enemy of God and His People, in His Policies, Power, Seat of His Empire, Wickedness, and Chief Design He Hath Against the Saints : a Magazine Opened, from Whence the Christian is Furnished with Spiritual Arms for the Battle, Helped on with His Armour, and Taught the Use of His Weapon, Together with the Happy Issue of the Whole War

Source: The Christian in Complete Armour: A Treatise of the Saints' War Against the Devil, Wherein a Discovery is Made of that Grand Enemy of God and His People, in His Policies, Power, Seat of His Empire, Wickedness, and Chief Design He Hath Against the Saints : a Magazine Opened, from Whence the Christian is Furnished with Spiritual Arms for the Battle, Helped on with His Armour, and Taught the Use of His Weapon, Together with the Happy Issue of the Whole War

“What we give to the poor, we lend to the Lord.”

Giving Poor Lord

Book:Narrative of Sojourner Truth

Source: Narrative of Sojourner Truth

“When poor and ordinary Americans who commit crimes are prosecuted and imprisoned, that is Justice. When the same thing is done to Washington elites, that is Ugly Retribution.”

Done Justice Poor Crime Ordinary Ugly Commit Elites Retribution

Author:Glenn Greenwald

“There is a popular fallacy that falling down is the mark of a poor skater. But the truth is that when one stops falling, he has probably stopped improving.”

Fall Poor Truth Is Mark Improving Falling Down Fallacy Skater

Book:Dick Button on Skates

Source: Dick Button on Skates

“people who pay greater respect to a wealthy villain than to an honest, upright man in poverty, almost deserve to be enslaved; they plainly show that wealth, however it may be acquired, is, in their esteem, to be preferred to virtue.”

“Art is the closest you can get to immortality, though it's a poor substitute - you're working for people not yet born - and people want it because it is brilliant. It ends up in museums anyway; the rich have to give it back to the people, it's their only option. There are no pockets in a shroud.”

People Want Giving Art Ends Born Poor Rich Art Is Brilliant Immortality Pockets Substitutes Museums Closest Shrouds

Author:Damien Hirst

“My friends are my estate. Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them. They tell me those who were poor early have different views of gold. I don't know how that is. God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him.”

Knows Giving Different Forget Poor Views Know How My Friends Gold Forgiving Estates Avarice Forgive Me No Friends Different Views Forget Him Lest We Forget

Book:Selected poems and letters of Emily Dickinson: together with Thomas Wentworth Higginson's account of his correspondence with the poet and his visit to her in Amherst

Source: Selected poems and letters of Emily Dickinson: together with Thomas Wentworth Higginson's account of his correspondence with the poet and his visit to her in Amherst

“The test is always how we treat the poor.”

Poor Tests Treats

Book:The poetry of Robert Frost

Source: The poetry of Robert Frost

“Poor thing. To die and never see Brooklyn.”

Dies Poor Brooklyn

Book:Transformations

Source: Transformations

“The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.”

Church Poor Existence Relation Austerity Prolonging

Author:Abraham Kuyper

“Poverty is a crime and the poor are terrorists”

Poor Poverty Crime Terrorist

Author:Arundhati Roy

“Impatience has a poor track record for perfection. Getting things right usually includes calming down!”

Poor Records Perfection Track Impatience Calming Track Record Calming Down

Author:Garrison Wynn

“Africa is not poor, Africa is being looted”

Author:Omali Yeshitela

“Competitive skills are desperately needed by poor children in America, and realistic recognition of the economic roles that they may someday have an opportunity to fill is obviously important, too. But there is more to life, and there ought to be much more to childhood, than readiness for economic functions.”

May Children Important America Opportunity Poor Roles Economic Childhood Ought Needed Skills Function Recognition Someday Realistic Readiness More To Life Poor Children

Author:Jonathan Kozol

“On the other side, the conservative party, composed of the most moderate, able, and cultivated part of the population, is timid, and merely defensive of property. It vindicates no right, it aspires to no real good, it brands no crime, it proposes no generous policy, it does not build, nor write, nor cherish the arts, nor foster religion, nor establish schools, nor encourage science, nor emancipate the slave, nor befriend the poor, or the Indian, or the immigrant.”

“We have feudal governments in a commercial age. It would be but an easy extension of our commercial system, to pay a private emperor a fee for services, as we pay an architect, an engineer, or a lawyer. If any man has talent for righting wrong, for administering difficult affairs, for counselling poor farmers how to turn their estates to good husbandry, for combining a hundred private enterprises to a general benefit, let him in the county- town, or in Court-street, put up his sign-board, Mr. Smith, Governor, Mr. Johnson, Working king.”

Source: The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations

“Old among the young, poor among the rich, I adopt an air of indefinable superiority.”

Young Poor Rich Air Behavior Superiority Indefinable

Author:Mason Cooley

“The rich are never as possessed by their riches as the poor are by their poverty.”

Poor Poverty Rich Riches Possessed

Author:Mason Cooley

“Oh, it were better to be a poor fisherman than to meddle with the government of men.”

Men Government Poor Fisherman

Author:Georges Danton

“The oligarchic character of the modern English commonwealth does not rest, like many oligarchies, on the cruelty of the rich to the poor. It does not even rest on the kindness of the rich to the poor. It rests on the perennial and unfailing kindness of the poor to the rich.”

Doe Character Poor Kindness Rich Modern Cruelty Commonwealth Oligarchy Modern English

Book:Heretics

Source: Heretics

“Most poor people earn more than minimum wage when they are working; their problem is not low wages. The problem comes when they are not working.”

People Problem Poor Lows Minimum Wages Poor People Minimum Wage

Author:Joseph Stiglitz

“When we begin to understand the concept of Karma we will never ever blame God for anything that happens to us. We will realise that we are responsible for all that happens to us. As we sow, so shall we reap. Rich or poor, saint or sinner, miser or philanthropist, learned or illiterate ... This is the Universal Law that applies to individuals, to whole communities, societies, nations and races. As we sow, so shall we reap.”

“Fear looks both ways but still refuses to cross; fear looks twice and still doesn't leap. ... Fear usually arrives late, inevitably leaves early, and ends up never going out of town at all. Fear is the phantom hand on the back of the neck and the sound of a door opening downstairs when no one is coming home. ... Fear grows poor because it watches others gain wealth but cannot enter the fray; fear grows sick because it eats away at heath even as it fears its diminishment; fear grows old watching others live in ways that seem to threaten-but in reality only enhance-life.”

Way Looks Stills Ends Home Hands Reality Seems Grows Fear Sound Wealth Poor Watches Doors Late Gains Crosses Sick Towns Refuse Opening Necks Coming Home Leap Going Out Phantoms Fray

Author:Gina Barreca

“The Jewish press in the USA is solely responsible for our poor publicity.”

Poor Responsible Presses Usa Publicity

Author:Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

“I believe that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.”

Believe Government Purpose I Believe Poor Rich

Author:William Henry Harrison

“For those who have lived on the edge of poverty all their lives, the semblance of poverty affected by the affluent is both incomprehensible and insulting.”

Poor Poverty Rich Edges Affected Insulting Rich And Poor Affluent Semblance

Author:Lillian B. Rubin

“As long as men are men, a poor society cannot be too poor to find a right order of life, nor a rich society too rich to have need to seek it.”

Men Needs Long Order Poor Rich Society

Author:R. H. Tawney

“We shall never want to serve God in our real and secret hearts if He looms in our subconscious mind as an arbitrary Dictator or a Spoil-sport, or as one who takes advantage of His position to make us poor mortals feel guilty and afraid. We have not only to be impressed by the "size" and unlimited power of God, we have to be moved to genuine admiration, respect, and affection, if we are ever to worship Him.”

Source: Your God is too small

“The average Mexican lives longer now than the average Briton did in 1955. Infant mortality is lower today in Nepal than it was in Italy in 1951. The proportion of Vietnamese living on less than $2 a day has dropped from 90 per cent to 30 per cent in twenty years. The rich have got richer, but the poor have done even better.”

Years Done Today Poor Rich Twenties Average Proportion Mortality Cents Infant Mexican Long Life Living On Vietnamese Nepal Britons Infant Mortality

Author:Matt Ridley