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“In the end, we may be hurting the very people we should be concerned about - the inner-city poor, those who already have to live with many risks in their daily lives, those who do not have clout here in Washington.”

People Should May Ends Hurt Poor Cities Risk Concerned Daily Life Inner City Clout

Author:Fred Thompson

“Some tribes [of monkeys] have taken to washing potatoes in the river before eating them, others have not. Sometimes migrating groups of potato-washers meet non-washers, and the two groups watch each other's strange behavior with apparent bewilderment. But unlike the inhabitants of Lilliput, who fought holy crusades over the question at which end to break the egg, the potato-washing monkeys do not go to war with the non-washers, because the poor creatures have no language which would enable them to declare washing a diving commandment and eating unwashed potatoes a deadly heresy.”

“Stale water is a poor drink. Stale skill is worse. And the man who walks in his own footsteps only ends where he began.”

Men Ends Water Walks Poor He Man Drink Skills Footsteps Stale

Book:Taran Wanderer: The Chronicles of Prydain

Source: Taran Wanderer: The Chronicles of Prydain

“The Bread of angels has become the Bread of mankind; This heavenly Bread puts an end to all images; O wonderful reality! The poor, the slave, and the humble can eat the Lord.”

Ends Reality Poor Lord Wonderful Mankind Angel Slave Humble Bread Heavenly Sacraments

Author:Thomas Aquinas

“I remember thinking, without pride of self-pity, that I was not rich or poor, that I wasn't good or bad. But that was difficult: to be neither good nor bad. It seemed to me, in the end, the same as being bad.”

Thinking Ends Self Remember Difficult Poor Rich Pride Pity Self Pity Rich Or Poor Being Bad

Author:Alejandro Zambra

“I don't remember ever being see-saw, when I'd made my mind up that a thing was wrong. It takes the taste out o' my mouth for things, when I know I should have a heavy conscience after 'em. I've seen pretty clear, ever since I could cast up a sum, as you can never do what's wrong without breeding sin and trouble more than you can ever see. It's like a bit o' bad workmanship--you never see th' end o' the mischief it'll do. And it's a poor look-out to come into the world to make your fellow creatures worse off instead o' better.”

Knows World Should Mind Looks Made Ends Remember Bits Sin Poor Clear Saws Trouble Taste Creatures Mouths Conscience Should Have Fellows Casts Heavy Ems Mischief Breeding Workmanship

Book:Works

Source: Works

“It had long been true, and prisoners knew this better than anyone, that the poorer you were the more likely you were to end up in jail. This was not just because the poor committed more crimes. In fact, they did. The rich did not have to commit crimes to get what they wanted; the laws were on their side. But when the rich did commit crimes, they often were not prosecuted, and if they were they could get out on bail, hire clever lawyers, get better treatment from judges. Somehow, the jails ended up full of poor black people.”

Source: A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present

“I want to build a bridge to the 21st century that ends the permanent underclass, that lifts up the poor and ends their isolation, their exile, and they are not forgotten anymore.”

Want Ends Poor Century Forgotten Lifts Bridges Permanent Isolation 21st Century Exile

Author:William J. Clinton

“Islam lays great emphasis on the social side of things. Every day, the rich and the poor, the great and the small living in a locality are brought five times in a day in the mosque in the terms of perfect equality of mankind and thereby the foundation of a healthy social relationship is laid and established through prayer. At the end of Ramazan comes the new moon, the crescent as a signal for a mass gathering on the 'Id day again in perfect equality of mankind which effects the entire Muslim world.”

“We got interested in aesthetics, and then at the end of all of it we fell off the precipice. It's almost like crawling back because so many techniques are lost, and so we're going to have a [small] reserve of teachers who can teach the vast number of interested students. We have these poor, hungry, starving people who want to learn something and no place to get it. It's a tragedy.”

People Want Ends Lost Poor Numbers Teach Teacher Students Tragedy Technique Hungry Reserves Starving Aesthetics Crawling Precipice

Author:Nelson Shanks

“While the poor and middle class fight for us in Afghanistan, and while most Americans struggle to make ends meet, we mega-rich continue to get our extraordinary tax breaks.”

Ends Fighting Poor Class Break Struggle Rich Middle Taxes Extraordinary Middle Class Afghanistan Tax Breaks Mega

Author:Warren Buffett

“How like a railway tunnel is the poor man's life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!”

Men Ends Light Poor Poverty Childhood Tunnels Gloom Poor Man Railway Future Life Extremity

Book:Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

“Think not you are charitable if the love of Jesus and His brethren be not purely the motive of your gifts. Alas! you might not give your superfluities, but "bestow all your goods to feed the poor;" you might even "give your body to be burned" for them, and yet be utterly destitute of charity, if self-seeking, self-pleasing or self-ends guide you; and guide you they must, until the love of God be by the Holy Ghost shed abroad in your heart.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Heart Ends Self Body Might Jesus Poor Holy Charity Seeking Guides Your Body Ghost God Love Motive Goods Shed Burned Alas Holy Ghost Charitable Brethren Destitute

Author:Hugh Reginald Haweis

“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

“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

“All the great Shakespeare plays are about killing. Alas, poor Yorick, that's about death. And in Romeo and Juliet everyone up ends up dying. The greatest dramas in the world are all about sex, violence and death.”

World Ends Play Sex Poor Violence Dying Drama Killing Alas Juliet Shakespeare Play

Author:Ray Winstone

“Christmas turns things tail-end foremost. The day and the spirit of Christmas rearrange the world parade. As the world arranges it, usually there come first in importance -- leading the parade with a big blare of a band -- the Big Shots. Frequently they are also the Stuffed Shirts. That's the first of the parade. Then at the tail end, as of little importance, trudge the weary, the poor, the lame, the halt, and the blind. But in the Christmas spirit, the procession is turned around. Those at the tail end are put first in the arrangement of the Child of Christmas.”

World Firsts Children Littles Ends Bigs Spirit Turns Poor Christianity Band Shots Importance Blind Shirts Tails Weary Arrangements Halt Parades Lame Christmas Spirit Procession Big Shots

Author:Bill Vaughan

“The way we still essentializ, we're constantly essentializing people as merely poor, or merely other, and in the end you can't have a relationship with people. I think the biggest job of adulthood is to learn to imagine other people complexly.”

People Thinking Way Stills Ends Jobs Poor Imagine Adulthood

Author:John Green

“I was born illegitimately and almost immediately, as I understand it, placed in an orphanage. So my very earliest memories were in an orphanage. It was the tag end of the Great Depression when I was born. People were desperately poor.”

People Ends Born Memories Poor Great Depression Tag Orphanage

Author:Bryce Courtenay

“A gentleman of Typee can bring up a numerous family of children and give them all a highly respectable cannibal education, with infinitely less toil and anxiety than he expends in the simple process of striking a light; whilst a poor European artisan, who through the instrumentality of a lucifer performs the same operation in one second, is put to his wits' end to provide for his starving offspring that food which the children of a Polynesian father, without troubling their parent, pluck from the branches of every tree around them.”

Source: Typee: A Romance of the South Seas (Illustrated & Annotated Edition)

“The sailor is frankness, the landsman is finesse. Life is not a game with the sailor, demanding the long head--no intricate game of chess where few moves are made in straight-forwardness and ends are attained by indirection, an oblique, tedious, barren game hardly worth that poor candle burnt out in playing it.”

Long Made Ends Moving Life Is Games Poor Chess Candle Sailor Tedious Barren Intricate Candor Frankness Finesse Burnt Out

Book:Billy Budd, Sailor and Selected Tales

Source: Billy Budd, Sailor and Selected Tales

“I was the rector's son, born to the anglican order, Banned for ever from the candles of the Irish poor; The Chichesters knelt in marble at the end of a transept With ruffs about their necks, their portion sure.”

Ends Order Born Poor Son Necks Candle Portions Ireland Marble Banned

Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

“Life, from beginning to end, is fear. Yes, it is pain, yes, it is desire, but more than anything it is fear; a certain amount rational, an enormous amount irrational. All political cruelties stem from that overwhelming fear. To push back the threatening forces, to offer primitive sacrifices, to give up some in the hope that others will be savedthat is the power struggle. That is the outsidedness of the poor, the feeble, the infantile. That is the outsidedness of Jews. That is the outsidedness of blacks. That is the outsidedness of women.”

“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

“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

“What you must understand is oppression does not end with the niggers. It does not end with the poor people, it doesn't end with the women, or the pregnant women. It goes on up the line to the executive who has his bag searched in the airport.”

People Doe Ends Lines Poor Goes On Oppression Bags Executives Pregnant Poor People Airports Pregnant Women

Author:Florynce Kennedy

“It is not poverty so much as pretence that harasses a ruined man--the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse--the keeping up a hollow show that must soon come to an end. Have the courage to appear poor, and you disarm poverty of its sharpest sting.”

Men Mind Ends Shows Poor Poverty Struggle Proud Empty Ruined Hollow Purses Pretence

Author:Anna Brownell Jameson

“It has long seemed ridiculous to me to suppose that the nature of things has been so poor and stingy that it provided souls only to such a trifling mass of bodies on our globe, like human bodies, when it could have given them to all, without interfering with its other ends.”

Humans Long Has Beens Soul Ends Body Given Poor Mass Ridiculous Globes Interfere Human Body Trifling Stingy

Book:Leibniz: Philosophical Essays

Source: Leibniz: Philosophical Essays

“What used to be racial segregation now mirrors itself in class segregation, this great sorting (has) taken place. It creates its own politics. There are some communities where not only do I not know poor people, I don't even know people who have trouble paying the bills at the end of the month. I just don't know those people. And so there's less sense of investment in those children.”

People Knows Children Ends Used Politics Community Poor Class Taken Trouble Months Mirrors Bills Investment Used To Be Poor People Segregation Sorting Racial Segregation

Author:Barack Obama

“Unless all the discoveries that you make have the welfare of the poor as the end in view, all your workshops will be really no better than Satan's workshops.”

Ends Poor Views Discovery Welfare Satan Workshops

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“One of the basic motifs in fairy tales is that you find the poor and unfortunate along the side of the road, and when they beg for help, if you give it to them, you end up succeeding. If you don't give it to them, you end up being turned into a frog or something. It's something that's been around for thousands of years, a concept that's been around for thousands of years.”

Ifs Giving Years Ends Helping Sides Poor Succeed Concepts Tales Fairy Fairy Tale Unfortunate Frogs Motifs

Author:George Lucas

“If we all gave all our goods to the poor, the church would fall apart. If we all hated our father and mother, as Jesus told us to, there'd be an end of the church's emphasis on the family as being the one important thing holding the whole society together. There are all sorts of ways in which the church's teachings contradict directly what Jesus says in the Gospel.”

Ifs Way Important Ends Whole Together Mother Fall Father Jesus Church Poor Teaching Important Things Hated Goods Emphasis Falling Apart Our Father

Author:Philip Pullman

“Everyone can enjoy a life of luxurious leisure if the machine-produced wealth is shared, or most people can end up miserably poor if the machine-owners successfully lobby against wealth redistribution.”

People Ifs Ends Enjoy Wealth Poor Machines Owners Leisure Luxurious

Author:Stephen Hawking

“Tom [Courtenay] and Albert Finney met Ron Harwood on the dresser, so that's how it started. It's a wonderful documentary. It's called Tosca's Kiss and Mr Hardwood told me about it when I asked him what the genesis was. It was made in 1983 and Verdi, who was rich and successful, toward the end of his life decided to build a mansion for himself in Milan, where he lived, and he stipulated that when he died opera singers and musicians - because he knew so many who were no longer playing at the Scala and some were poor - could live there.”

Made Ends Poor Successful Rich Wonderful Mets Kissing Musician Decided Died Singers Opera Toms Documentaries Genesis Mansions Milan Opera Singers Dressers Verdi Hardwood

Author:Dustin Hoffman

“Like tens of millions of Americans, my parents were immigrants. They were poor and did not speak English well. They went to flea markets and sold gifts to make ends meet. Eventually, through hard work, they opened six gift stores in shopping malls. My parents achieved the American dream; they went from being poor to a home and gave my brother and me an amazing education. I wanted to serve the country that gave so much to my family.”

Wells Ends Country Hard Home Dream Wanted Speak Parent Poor Millions Brother Hard Work Six My Family Stores My Brother Immigrants Shopping American Dream Malls Fleas Speak English Flea Markets

Author:Ted Lieu

“Muqtada is radical in the sense that he wants the U.S. occupation to end and has always said so from the beginning. Secondly, his support among the Shia really runs along class lines; it's mainly the poor who support him. His organization runs an enormous social network.”

Want Said Ends Running Social Lines Poor Class Support Organization Enormous Radical Occupation Social Network Shia

Author:Patrick Cockburn

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