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“In Shansi I found Chinese Christians who were accustomed to spend time in fasting and prayer. They recognized that this fasting, which so many dislike, which requires faith in God, since it makes one feel weak and poorly, is really a Divinely appointed means of grace. Perhaps the greatest hindrance to our work is our own imagined strength; and in fasting we learn what poor, weak creatures we are-dependent on a meal of meat for the little strength which we are so apt to lean upon.”

Feels Mean Littles Christian Found Prayer Poor Grace Creatures Weak Chinese Meat Meals Dependent Dislike Faith In God End Times Accustomed Spend Time Fasting Hindrance Prayer And Fasting

Author:Hudson Taylor

“Failure means that you would not, or could not, pay for success. Success is a matter of sale. It can (most often) be bought by a large outlay--of hard forethought--of pains--of steadiness--of the golden wisdom coined from experience. But the figure is too high for most of us. We are too poor, or too slothful, to bring the price.”

Mean Matter Hard Pain Poor Pay Figures Failure Golden Often Is Forethought Steadiness

Author:Charles Buxton

“What I mean by Socialism is a condition of society in which there should be neither rich nor poor, neither master nor master's man, neither idle nor overworked, neither brainslack brain workers, nor heartsick hand workers, in a word, in which all men would be living in equality of condition, and would manage their affairs unwastefully, and with the full consciousness that harm to one would mean harm to all - the realisation at last of the meaning of the word 'commonwealth.'”

Men Should Heart Mean Hands Would Be Lasts Poor Brain Consciousness Rich Conditions Masters Sick Workers Affair Harm Socialism Manage Idle Commonwealth Realisation

Author:William Morris

“Nothing could be more stupid than for the communications commission to give to people who handle the means of broadcasting the inventing of what to broadcast, and then, disturbed at the poor quality, to worry about censorship.”

People Giving Mean Poor Quality Worry Stupid Communication Handle Censorship Disturbed Inventing Broadcasting Poor Quality

Book:Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society

Source: Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society

“I think uncertainty is good for things. Certainty breeds complacency and complacency means that you just sit somewhere in your nice little comfortable suburban house in Michigan, looking at CNN and saying, "Oh, those poor immigrant children that are all coming across the border. But we really can't have them here - that isn't what God wants. Let's send them all back to the drug cartels." There's a complacency to it.”

Thinking Want Mean Children Littles House Poor Nice Drug Comfortable Certainty Uncertainty Borders Immigrants Complacency Michigan Cnn Cartels Drug Cartels

Author:Stephen King

“It is true that there is a thing crudely called charity, which means charity to the deserving poor; but charity to the deserving is not charity at all, but justice. It is the undeserving who require it, and the ideal either does not exist at all, or exists wholly for them.”

Mean Doe Justice Poor Ideals Charity Deserving Undeserving

Book:Heretics

Source: Heretics

“It may at first appear strange, but I believe it is true, that I cannot by means of money raise a poor man and enable him to live much better than he did before, without proportionably depressing others in the same class.”

Men Firsts Believe May Mean I Believe Poor Class Strange Raises Depressing Poor Man

Book:Population: The First Essay

Source: Population: The First Essay

“I'm one of the undeserving poor: that's what I am. Think of what that means to a man. It means that he's up agen middle class morality all the time.... What is middle class morality? Just an excuse for never giving me anything.”

Thinking Men Giving Mean Poor Class Middle Morality Excuse Middle Class Undeserving

Book:The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

“Well, you can do whatever you want, but just don’t call it inequality. Put the word poverty there. Because we have many rich people on our board, and when they see the word poverty that makes them feel good, because [it means] they’re really nice people who care about the poor. When they see the word inequality it makes them upset, because [it means] you want to take money from them.”

People Mean Care Poor Poverty Rich Nice Feel Good Inequality Upset Rich People Really Nice Nice People

Author:Branko Milanovic

“It's important to be thankful, even if you're poor. I mean, come on, we all have clean water—well OK, not people in the developing world.”

People Ifs World Wells Mean Important Water Poor Clean Developing Being Thankful Clean Water

Author:Avril Lavigne

“Teachers are everything. I mean, you're a poor kid from the ghetto, your parents are busy working 24/7, working like a Mexican.”

Mean Kids Parent Poor Teacher Busy Mexican Ghetto

Author:John Leguizamo

“If you do not feel the bitter cold inside you when you look at the poor trembling out of cold, it means you are lack of compassion; in other words, you are lack of everything!”

Ifs Feels Looks Mean Poor Compassion Cold Bitter Trembling Lack Of Compassion Bitter Cold

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan