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“I remember when the Titanic sank in 1912, it was the ship that was supposed to be unsinkable. The only thing it ever did was sink. When it took off from England, all kinds of passengers were aboard - millionaires, celebrities, people of moderate means, and poor folks down in the steerage. But a few hours later when they put the list in the Cunard office in New York, it carried only two categories - lost and saved. Grim tragedy had leveled all distinctions.”

“The only incurable troubles of the rich are the troubles that money can't cure, Which is a kind of trouble that is even more troublesome if you are poor.”

Ifs Kind Poor Rich Trouble Adversity Cures Troublesome

Book:The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash

Source: The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash

“Go into the streets, into the slums, into the fashionable quarters. Go into the day courts and the night courts. Become acquainted with sorrow, with many kinds of sorrow. Learn of the wonderful heroism of the poor, of the incredible generosity of the very poor”

Kind Night Poor Wonderful Streets Sorrow Court Incredibles Generosity Quarters Heroism Fashionable Slums Night Court

Book:Mrs. Fiske: Her Views on Actors, Acting, and the Problems of Production

Source: Mrs. Fiske: Her Views on Actors, Acting, and the Problems of Production

“The whole attempt to advance the kind of consumer society that depends for its growth on the ceaseless stimulation of unlimited covetousness among the rich, while the poor majority rot in their poverty-this is surely something against which a Christian should be a nonconformist.”

Should Kind Whole Christian Growth Poor Poverty Rich Depends Majority Consumers Consumerism Unlimited Overconsumption Stimulation Covetousness Nonconformist

Author:Lesslie Newbigin

“Both rich and poor nations have a common stake in policies that put the globe on a sustainable development path. The conflict is less between poor and rich countries than between the broad interests of people and the narrow interests of extractive industries. We need to find our way towards some kind of global regime that reduces emissions of the greenhouse gases, but well-off nations need to transfer the technology to make this possible, rather than viewing this shift as one more opportunity for private industry to profit.”

“I trust no rich man who is officiously kind to a poor man.”

Men Kind Wealth Poor Rich Rich Man Poor Man

Author:Plautus

“If I knew a miser, who gave up every kind of comfortable living, all the pleasure of doing good to others, all the esteem of his fellow-citizens, and the joys of benevolent friendship, for the sake of accumulating wealth. Poor man, said I, you pay too much for your whistle.”

Ifs Men Kind Said Joy Wealth Pleasure Poor Pay Too Much Citizens Comfortable Fellows Sake Esteem Doing Good Gave Up Poor Man Benevolent Misers Accumulating Wealth

Book:Poor Richard; or, The way to wealth

Source: Poor Richard; or, The way to wealth

“Delirious as it can be, sex is only one kind of intimacy, and yet has become the cultural catchment area for all kinds of needs because our understanding of intimacy is so poor. Brutal work schedules, related geographic isolation, and the concomitant fracturing of families has meant that there is little time for intimacy, and even less to teach the necessary skills. But intimacy, the axis of romance, is slow, based on the sharing of a life rather than show. In terms of intimacy, folding laundry together or sharing the feeding of a child can have more impact than the most extravagant bouquet.”

“I loved my father, but I was not like him. I never needed to believe the best of people. I took them as they were: two-faced, desperate, kind - perhaps all at once. But to Pa, they were all children of god, poor troubled sheep, who only needed love and an even break. He needed the world to back up what his religion told him about people. And when it came down to a choice between reason and faith, he let go of reason.”

People World Believe Kind Children Two Reason Choices Father Poor Break Needed Letting Go Desperate Sheep Child Of God Needed Love

Book:Far North

Source: Far North

“We will make yogurt with all kinds of nutritious elements. We want to provide nutrition to the poor and children.”

Want Kind Children Poor Elements All Kinds Nutrition Yogurt

Author:Muhammad Yunus

“Men of science have made abundant mistakes of every kind; their knowledge has improved only because of their gradual abandonment of ancient errors, poor approximations, and premature conclusions.”

Men Kind Made Poor Mistake Errors Ancient Conclusion Abandonment Premature Approximation

Book:A History of Science: Hellenistic science and culture in the last three centuries B.C

Source: A History of Science: Hellenistic science and culture in the last three centuries B.C

“When the press writes scare stories about the global labor supply draining jobs from rich to poor places, the story is usually presented as a "race to the bottom" simply in terms of wages. Capitalism supposedly looks for labor wherever labor is cheapest. This story is half wrong. A kind of cultural selection is also at work, so that jobs leave high-wage countries like the United States and Germany, but migrate to low-wage economies with skilled, sometimes overqualified workers.”

Source: The Culture of the New Capitalism

“A rich man's body is like a premium cotton pillow, white and soft and blank. ''Ours'' is different. My father's spine was a knotted rope, the kind that women use in villages to pull water from wells; the clavicle curved around his neck in high relief, like a dog's collar; cuts and nicks and scars, like little whip marks in his flesh, ran down his chest and waist, reaching down below his hip bones into his buttocks. The story of a poor man's life is written on his body, in a sharp pen.”

“It's mind-boggling to consider that movies this bad are actually committed to film. The poor quality of The Pest in almost every category - humor, intelligence, creativity, and just plain entertainment value - ranks it somewhere between a bad infomercial and a local cable newscast. Rarely do I consider the act of seeing a movie to be a chore, but this kind of experience is the exception.”

Mind Kind Film Values Poor Quality Creativity Seeing Committed Entertainment Locals Exception Categories Cables Chores Pests Mind Boggling Poor Quality Infomercials

Author:James Berardinelli

“What have we here? a man or a fish? dead or alive? A fish: he smells like a fish; a very ancient and fishlike smell; a kind of not of the newest poor-John. A strange fish!”

Men Kind Poor Alive Sea Strange Rivers Ancient Fishes Smell Boat Lakes Fishing

Book:The Dramatic Works

Source: The Dramatic Works

“I gave up accounting. I went in for about six months writing ad copy. I was fired from that, and then another guy and I did a kind of poor man's Bob and Ray kind of syndicated radio show. Then I decided to stick it out and see what happened. I'd give it a year, a year became two years, and then two years became three years, and then along came the record album.”

“The person who's in the Zen monastery, who's doing a kind of poor job at meditating and a half-ass job cleaning the gardens is not doing very good yoga.”

Kind Persons Jobs Poor Half Buddhism Yoga Garden Very Good Ass Cleaning Meditating Monasteries

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The reader may ask himself if this is not cruelty and injustice of a kind so terrible that it beggars the imagination, and whether these poor people would not fare far better if they were entrusted to the devils in Hell than they do at the hands of the devils of the New World who masquerade as Christians.”

People Ifs World Kind May Hands Christian Asks Imagination Poor Hell Atheism Reader Terrible Devil Injustice Positive Atheism Cruelty New World Poor People Beggar Masquerade

Author:Bartolome de las Casas

“O, if my husband could only love me even a little and not seem to be perfectly indifferent to any sensation of that kind... O my poor aching heart when shall it rest its burden only on the Lord.”

Ifs Heart Kind Littles Seems Poor Lord Husband Burden My Husband Sensations Indifferent Only Love Polygamy Heart Ache

Author:Emmeline B. Wells

“It is a kind of blindness--poverty. We can only grope through life when we are poor, hitting and maiming ourselves against every angle.”

Kind Poor Poverty Hitting Angle Blindness

Book:Pascarèl: Only a Story

Source: Pascarèl: Only a Story

“Happy season of childhood! Kind Nature, that art to all a bountiful mother; that visitest the poor man's hut With auroral radiance; and for thy nursling hast provided a soft swathing of love and infinite hope wherein he waxes and slumbers, danced round by sweetest dreams!”

Men Kind Children Art Dream Mother Poor Childhood Seasons Infinite Rounds Sweetest Poor Man Radiance Slumber Huts Infinite Hope

Book:Sartor Resartus: The Historian

Source: Sartor Resartus: The Historian

“The abject pleasure of an abject mind And hence so dear to poor weak woman kind. [Lat., Vindicta Nemo magis gaudet, quam femina.]”

Mind Kind Women Pleasure Poor Weak Dear Nemo Weak Women

Author:Juvenal

“I had never been able to believe that God would give us poor frail humans only one chance at making it -- that we would be assigned to some kind of hell because we failed during one experience of mortal life. ... So the concepts of karma and reincarnation made logical sense to me.”

Giving Believe Humans Kind Made Would Be Able Chance Poor Hell Concepts Karma Mortals Logical Reincarnation Frail One Chance

Author:Jane Goodall

“There are many pages in the book, many kinds of lives we each can live, many ways to be rich, and even more to be poor.”

Way Kind Book Poor Rich Pages

Author:Merle Shain

“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

“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

“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

“Because the rich are generally few in number, while the poor are many, they appear to be antagonistic, and as the one or the other prevails they form the government. Hence arises the common opinion that there are two kinds of government - democracy and oligarchy.”

Kind Two Government Form Poor Common Numbers Opinion Democracy Rich Arise Oligarchy

Book:Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation

Source: Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation

“I've always stood on one fact - that all over the world, there are only two things, the Establishment and the poor people. The poor people are a massive majority and across the world they are exploited in different kinds of ways. The Establishment depends on exploiting raw materials and the poor.”

People World Way Kind Two Different Facts Poor Materials Depends Majority Two Things Massive Establishment Different Kinds Poor People Raw Materials

Author:Hugh Masekela

“"Well, well!" said my aunt. "I only ask. I don't depreciate her. Poor little couple! And so you think you were formed for one another, and are to go through a party-supper-table kind of life, like two pretty pieces of confectionery, do you, Trot?"”

Thinking Love Wells Kind Littles Said Two Asks Poor Party Pieces Couple Tables Aunt Supper Well Said Depreciate

Book:Life and Times of Charles Dickens: Autobiographical Novels, Stories, London Society Sketches, Travel Memoirs, Letters & Biographies (Illustrated): David Copperfield, Sketches by Boz, American Notes, Pictures From Italy, Reprinted Pieces, Sunday Under Three Heads, The Uncommercial Traveller, My Father as I Recall Him by Mamie Dickens…

Source: Life and Times of Charles Dickens: Autobiographical Novels, Stories, London Society Sketches, Travel Memoirs, Letters & Biographies (Illustrated): David Copperfield, Sketches by Boz, American Notes, Pictures From Italy, Reprinted Pieces, Sunday Under Three Heads, The Uncommercial Traveller, My Father as I Recall Him by Mamie Dickens…

“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

“In a virtuous and free state, no rewards can be so pleasing to sensible minds, as those which include the approbation of our fellow citizens. My great pain is, lest my poor endeavours should fall short of the kind expectations of my country.”

Should Mind Kind Country States Pain Fall Poor Citizens Expectations Fellows Rewards Sensible Virtuous Public Service Endeavour Free State

Book:Thomas Jefferson: a biography in his own words

Source: Thomas Jefferson: a biography in his own words

“They have their belief, these poor Tibet people, that Providence sends down always an Incarnation of Himself into every generation. At bottom some belief in a kind of Pope! At bottom still better, a belief that there is a Greatest Man; that he is discoverable; that, once discovered, we ought to treat him with an obedience which knows no bounds. This is the truth of Grand Lamaism; the "discoverability" is the only error here.”

People Knows Men Kind Stills Belief Poor Generations Buddhism Ought Treats Errors Bottom Bounds Obedience Providence Pope Incarnation Tibet Greatest Man

Author:Thomas Carlyle

“Man seems to be a rickety poor sort of thing, any way you take him; a kind of British Museum of infirmities and inferiorities. He is always undergoing repairs. A machine that was as unreliable as he is would have no market.”

Men Way Kind Seems Poor Machines British Museums Inferiority Infirmity Unreliable British Museum

Book:What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings

Source: What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings

“The proper education of poor children [is] the ground-work of almost every other kind of charity.... Without this foundation firstlaid, how much kindnessis unavoidably cast away?”

Kind Children Poor Education Foundation Charity Casts Cast Away Poor Children

Author:Laurence Sterne

“... if you're poor and ignorant, with a child, you're a slave. Meaning that you're never going to get out of it. These women are in bondage to a kind of slavery that the 13th Amendment just didn't deal with. The old master provided food, clothing and health care to the slaves because he wanted them to get up and go to work in the morning. And so on welfare: you get food, clothing and shelter--you get survival, but you can't really do anything else. You can't control your life.”

Ifs Kind Children Care Wanted Poor Deals Morning Masters Survival Slavery Slave Ignorant Get Up Health Care Welfare Clothings Amendments Shelter Bondage

Author:Joycelyn Elders

“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.”

“Work of all kinds is got from poor women, at prices that will not keep soul and body together, and then the articles thus made aresold for prices that give monstrous prices to the capitalist, who thus grows rich on the hard labor of our sex.”

Giving Kind Made Soul Hard Body Together Sex Grows Poor Rich Capitalism Labor All Kinds Articles Capitalist Monstrous Soul And Body

Book:The Evils Suffered by American Women and American Children: The Causes and the Remedy

Source: The Evils Suffered by American Women and American Children: The Causes and the Remedy

“The issue of world environment has a special kind of urgency... The issue is one of rich peoples and poor peoples, of the growing gap between the two, and of the rich fouling their own nests.”

World Kind Two Poor Issues Rich Environment Growing Special Environmental Gaps Poor People Stewardship Rich People Nests Urgency World Environment

Book:Geography, Resources and Environment, Volume 1: Selected Writings of Gilbert F. White

Source: Geography, Resources and Environment, Volume 1: Selected Writings of Gilbert F. White

“My family moved to the Philippines when I was 14. While living there, I learned that my mom grew up very poor. Seeing that kind of abject poverty firsthand during my travels deeply shaped my life. Seeing those living conditions motivated me to want to tell inspiring stories of struggle and triumph.”

Want Kind Stories Poor Poverty Struggle Seeing Conditions Grew Mom Grew Up My Family Moved My Mom Triumph Motivated Philippines Living Conditions Inspiring Stories

Author:Manny Pacquiao

“Not only do I have a great love for the game of golf - no matter how badly I play it - but I have also the belief that through every kind of meeting, through every kind of activity to which we can bring together more often and more intimately peoples of our several countries, by that measure we will do something to solve the difficulties and the tensions that this poor old world seems nowadays to so much endure.”

World Kind Country Matter Play Seems Together Games Belief Sports Poor Activity Difficulty Meetings Golf Endure Solve Tension Great Love Old World

Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Not so great in England at the moment; in an online poll we came last, we actually came bottom of European countries for quality of life, because of things like the weather, obviously, late retirement, poor holiday, poor public services, poor health service; it's basically just a kind of grey, godless wilderness, full of cold pies and broken dreams.”

“Talking about success in society, no one can complain, because today everyone can choose what he or she wants. They don't just have to choose between being proletarian or middle-class. Those kinds of things do not exist anymore. Today working class boys can play football and become multimillionaires. On football! There are no longer classes, who say that we are poor, we are suppressed by you etc.”

Want Kind Play Today Poor Talking Class Boys Middle Football Complaining Etc Middle Class Working Class About Success

Author:Odd Nerdrum

“I got a degree in sociology, didn't read much fiction in college, and I was a pretty political, left-wing type of guy. I wanted to do some kind of work in social change and make things better for the poor man, and I was very romantic and passionate about it.”

Men Kind Wanted Political Guy Left Social Poor Fiction College Type Degrees Wings Passionate Sociology Social Change Poor Man Left Wing Very Romantic Type Of Guy Romantic And Passionate

Author:Andre Dubus

“I happen to think that Jesus was the greatest hero of all time. I don't think you could invent that kind of a hero. He had it all - everything that the human spirit could yearn for. There is nothing that man ever said or did, by word or deed that is evil. That is not full of compassion. That is not full of love for your neighbor whether he's down or out, or up - no matter what. He taught that you must love your neighbor whether he's a crook, a beggar, whether he's rich or poor.”

“My image of what a city should be - the super-rich and all the poor and desperate and the people who have some kind of a desire. It's a surviving game, people trying to survive on many different levels.”

People Should Trying Kind Different Desire Games Poor Levels Cities Rich Desperate Surviving Different Levels

Author:Ai Weiwei

“My patriotism is of the kind which is outraged by the notion that the United States never was a great nation until in a petty three months' campaign it knocked to pieces a poor, decrepit, bankrupt old state like Spain. To hold such an opinion as that is to abandon all American standards, to put shame and scorn on all that our ancestors tried to build up here, and to go over to the standards of which Spain is a representative.”

Source: War and Other Essays