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“In my youth, I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.”

Made Different Country Done Government Courses Poor Youth Contrary Traveled Federal Government Provision Welfare State Different Countries General Welfare Government And Society Government Politics

Book:The Autobiography and Other Writings

Source: The Autobiography and Other Writings

“Feast of Clare of Assisi, Founder of the Order of Minoresses (Poor Clares), 1253 Commemoration of John Henry Newman, Priest, Teacher, Tractarian, 1890 It is our great relief that God is not extreme to mark what is done amiss, that he looks at the motives, and accepts and blesses in spite of incidental errors.”

Looks Done Order Poor Accepting Teacher Mark Errors Extremes Motive Spite Relief Priests Bless Founders Newman Commemoration

Author:John Henry Newman

“Gold, n.: A soft malleable metal relatively scarce in distribution. It is mined deep in the earth by poor men who then give it to rich men who immediately bury it back in the earth in great prisons, although gold hasn't done anything to them.”

Men Giving Done Earth Poor Rich Humorous Gold Prison Metals Distribution Scarce Rich Man Poor Man

Author:Mike Harding

“I sit at my table en grand seigneur , And when I have done, throw a crust to the poor; Not only the pleasure, one's self, of good living, But also the pleasure of now and then giving. So pleasant it is to have money, heigh ho! So pleasant it is to have money.”

Giving Self Done Pleasure Poor Tables Pleasant Now And Then Good Living

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“True Work is the necessity of poor humanity's earthly condition. The dignity is in leisure. Besides, 99 hundredths of all the work done in the world is either foolish and unnecessary, or harmful and wicked.”

World Done Humanity Work Poor Conditions Dignity Foolish Wicked Leisure Unnecessary Work Done

Book:Correspondence

Source: Correspondence

“When I was a freshman, I fooled around with shooting free throws this way: For some reason, I thought you had to stay within the top half of that free-throw circle, so I would step back to just inside the top of the circle, take off from behind the line and dunk. They outlawed that, but I wouldn't have done it in a game, anyway. I was a good free throw shooter in college." Actually he was a 62% free throw shooter, which is poor except in comparison to his 51% as a pro.”

Way Reason Done Games Lines Poor Behinds Half Steps College Circles Shooting Comparison Fooled Freshman Shooter Free Throw

Author:Wilt Chamberlain

“A poor creature who has said or done nothing worth a serious man taking the trouble of remembering.”

Men Said Done Funny Remember Poor Trouble Serious Creatures Serious Man

Author:Thomas Carlyle

“Every effort therefore must be made to perpetuate prosperity. And, since that is to the advantage of the rich as well as the poor, all that accrues from the revenues should be collected into a single fund and distributed in block grants to those in need, if possible in lump sums large enough for the acquisition of a small piece of land, but if not, enough to start a business, or work in agriculture. And if that cannot be done for all, the distribution might be by tribes or some other division each in turn.”

“One of the things I tell my students is that if you want to understand what's been going on and also what needs to be done, you've got to get out of the blame game. Some people on the left want to blame the rich and corporations. Some people on the right want to blame the poor and government. Either of those frames of reference gets you nowhere and they aren't even truthful. You've got to understand the dynamic itself.”

People Ifs Want Needs Done Government Games Left Poor Rich Students Blame Corporations Truthful Frame Of Reference Blame Game

Author:Robert Reich

“When, and how, and at what stage of our development did spirituality and our strange notions of religion arise? the need for worship which is nothing more than our frightened refuge into propitiation of a Creator we do not understand? A detective story, the supreme Who-done-it, written in indecipherable hieroglyphics, no Rosetta stone supplied by the consummate Mystifier to tease us poor fumbling unravellers of his plot.”

Source: No Signposts in the Sea

“This glorious union shall not perish! Precious legacy of our fathers, it shall go down honored and cherished to our children. Generations unborn shall enjoy its privileges as we have done; and if we leave them poor in all besides, we will transmit to them the boundless wealth of its blessings!”

Ifs Children Done Father Enjoy Wealth Poor Generations Blessing Our Children Unions Privilege Legacy Glorious Honored Our Father Boundless Unborn Transmit

Author:Edward Everett

“I knew that it is out of the question to have honest, economical government while a few are inordinately rich and the great mass of men are poor. In fact, it is to be doubted if anything really worthwhile can be done until there is a fairer distribution of wealth.”

Ifs Men Done Facts Government Wealth Poor Rich Honest Mass Worthwhile Distribution Doubted Distribution Of Wealth

Author:Clarence Darrow

“Children, together with women, constitute 90 percent of all refugee populations on the planet as well as the vast majority of those living in absolute poverty: the 'feminization of poverty' means that children are poor, too, since most parenting is done by mothers.”

Wells Mean Children Done Together Mother Poor Poverty Planets Percent Absolutes Majority Population Refugee

Book:Saturday's Child: A Memoir

Source: Saturday's Child: A Memoir

“Of all the art forms, poetry is the most economical. It is the one which is the most secret, which requires the least physical labor, the least material, and the one which can be done between shifts, in the hospital pantry, on the subway, and on scraps of surplus paper. ... poetry has been the major voice of poor, working class, and Colored women. A room of one's own may be a necessity for writing prose, but so are reams of paper, a typewriter, and plenty of time.”

Writing May Has Beens Art Done Form Voice Poor Rooms Secret Class Poverty Materials Paper Majors Labor Plenty Prose Poetry Is Hospitals Working Class Subway Scrap Typewriters Surplus Pantry

Author:Audre Lorde

“If woman's sole responsibility is of the domestic type, one class will be crushed by it, and the other throw it off as a badge of poverty. The poor man's motto, 'Woman's work is never done,' leads inevitably to its antithesis - ladies' work is never begun.”

Ifs Men Done Poor Responsibility Class Poverty Type Sole Motto Crushed Poor Man Housework Badges Antithesis

Author:Antoinette Brown Blackwell

“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

“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

“Poor wretches that depend On greatness' favor, dream as I have done; Wake, and find nothing.”

Done Dream Poor Greatness Depends Court Favors

Book:The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Julius Cæser. Antony and Cleopatra. Cymbeline. Titus Andronicus. Pericles

Source: The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Julius Cæser. Antony and Cleopatra. Cymbeline. Titus Andronicus. Pericles

“Always remember, money is a servant; you are the master. Be very careful not to reverse that equation, because many people of high intelligence have already done so, to their great detriments. Unfortunately, many of these poor souls loved money and used people, which violated one of the most basic laws governing true financial success. You should always love people and use money, rather than the reverse!”

People Should Soul Done Use Remember Law Used Poor Masters Financial Careful Servant Reverse Equations Governing Financial Success

Author:Bob Proctor

“"And when you had made sure of the poor little fool," said my aunt - "God forgive me that I should call her so, and she gone where YOU won't go in a hurry - because you had not done wrong enough to her and hers, you must begin to train her, must you? begin to break her, like a poor caged bird, and wear her deluded life away, in teaching her to sing YOUR notes?"”

Love Should Littles Made Said Done Enough Poor Break Gone Teaching Fool Bird Forgiving Train Notes Aunt Forgive Me Deluded Caged God Forgives Caged Birds God Forgive Me

Book:David Copperfield

Source: David Copperfield

“Drink your fill when the jar is first opened, and when it is nearly done, but be sparing when it is half-empty; it's a poor savingwhen you come to the dregs.”

Firsts Done Poor Half Drink Empty Generosity Moderation Jars Half Empty Dregs

Author:Hesiod

“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

“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

“Jesus said when the woman poured the alabaster bottle of perfume on him that was worth almost a year's wages, and Judas, who was very money-minded, said you shouldn't have done that, because you're wasting that, we could have sold that and given it to the poor. And Jesus himself said, you will always have the poor with you, but she has done this as an honor to me, and she will be honored for it all of her days. And so you never run out of poor people. You could give everything you had, I could give everything I had, and the world would still be full of poor people.”

People World Giving Years Said Stills Done Running Jesus Given Poor Honor Bottles Wages Honored Perfume Poor People Judas

Author:Joyce Meyer

“You hear that boy laughing?you think he's all fun; But the angels laugh, too, at the good he has done; The children laugh loud as they troop to his call, And the poor man that knows him laughs loudest of all.”

Thinking Knows Men Children Done Fun Poor Boys Laughing Angel Loud Poor Man

Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“Settle your quarrels, come together, understand the reality of our situation, understand that fascism is already here, that people are already dying who could be saved, that generations more will live poor butchered half-lives if you fail to act. Do what must be done, discover your humanity and your love in revolution.”

Source: Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson

“The Great Society went wrong for three major reasons. First, the self-organization the Johnson administration promoted turned out to be not the pooling of family and community resources into shops and businesses, but political pressure for government handouts. Second, the Great Society failed to anticipate the perverse side-effects of handing money out to people who have done nothing to earn it. Third, while the Great Society was showering money on the poor, the Supreme Court was with childlike glee smashing to bits traditional methods of maintaining law and order.”

“Whatsoever then you have well in this world, when you recollect to have done any thing good, be very fearful about it, lest the prosperity granted you be your recompense for the same good. And when you behold poor men doing any thing blameably, fear not, seeing that perhaps those whom the remains of the slightest iniquity defiles, the fire of honesty cleanses.”

Men World Wells Done Poor Fire Seeing Honesty This World Remains Prosperity Granted Fearful Fear Not Poor Man Iniquity Recompense

Author:Pope Gregory I

“You know what needs to be done when you're a writer. You know what the job is, particularly if you're an African American writer, or if you deal with people, or if your subjects are poor people or people who need voice. So you don't really need to know whether or not you are doing the right thing. What you have to be wary of if you're doing the right thing to the right level that will surpass your own life. I'm hoping that my work will surpass my own life.”

People Ifs Knows Needs Done Jobs Voice My Own Poor Levels Deals Subjects African American Right Thing Poor People My Own Life Doing The Right Thing American Writer

Author:James McBride

“Take heart! Many great things have been done by people in poor mental health.”

People Heart Has Beens Done Poor Mental Health Great Things

Author:Ashleigh Brilliant

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