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“I think that the poorest of the poor... look up to wealthy and successful Indians with some degree of respect and pride.”

Thinking Looks Poor Successful Pride Degrees Look Up Wealthy Poorest

Author:Vijay Mallya

“My message to David Cameron, as the head of our government, is to seriously think again about this Robin Hood tax, the tax to help the poor by taking a little bit from the rich.”

Thinking Littles Helping Government Bits Poor Rich Taxes Little Bit Messages Hood Robins Cameron Robin Hood Help The Poor

Author:Keith O'Brien

“The rich aren't happy so they try and get richer thinking it will make a difference. The poor aren't happy. They try and get rich thinking that will make a difference.”

Thinking Trying Happiness Differences Poor Rich Buddhism Making A Difference Get Rich

Author:Frederick Lenz

“.......the poor of the world cannot be made rich by redistribution of wealth. Poverty can't be eliminated by punishing people who've escaped poverty, taking their money and giving it as a reward to people who have failed to escape. Economic leveling doesn't work. Whether we call it Marxism, Progressive Reform, or Clintonomics, the result is the same slide into the stygian pit. Communists worship Satan; socialists think perdition is a good system run by bad men; and liberals want us to go to hell because it's warm there in the winter.”

Source: All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty

“I know some of my parents' friends think 'Little Britain' is in incredibly poor taste. But swimming the Channel? You can't really say anything negative about that, can you? There's nothing better than making your parents happy. The glee on my father's face that day was amazing.”

Thinking Knows Littles Faces Father Parent Poor Taste Negative Britain Swimming Say Anything Glee Poor Taste Little Britain

Author:David Walliams

“I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.”

Source: Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin

“Poor heretics there be,Which think to establish dangerous constancy,But I have told them, ‘Since you will be true,You shall be true to them, who are false to you.”

Thinking Poor Dangerous Being True Heretic Constancy True You

Author:John Donne

“I think we can rule out 'mixed brain dominance' as a cause of your poor performance at school, Charlie Brown" "Have you ruled out stupidity?" "Peanuts", Charles M”

Thinking School Causes Poor Brain Performances Stupidity Brown Charlie Dominance Peanuts Poor Performance

Author:Charles M. Schulz

“The reason why we often get poor advice is that it's hard to find a person who always has our best interest at heart, isn't envious in any way, and at no level thinks he knows what's best for you.”

Thinking Knows Way Heart Persons Hard Reason Interest Poor Levels Advice Reason Why Envious Best Interests At Heart

Book:Get Anyone to Do Anything: Never Feel Powerless Again--With Psychological Secrets to Control and Influence Every Situation

Source: Get Anyone to Do Anything: Never Feel Powerless Again--With Psychological Secrets to Control and Influence Every Situation

“My oh my, think of what you're going to be like when you have your completely Heavenly body that can do all the things you can do now and more, including flying and floating and appearing and disappearing and walking through walls and locked doors and having marvelous supernatural miraculous powers of defense and judgement upon your enemies, protection for your friends, and to be able to help the poor humans that are still living on Earth during the Millennium to learn more about the Lord and love Him and serve Him even as you do.”

“I think everyone has some sort of connection to Gatsby as a character... he's created himself according to his own emotions and dreams and lifted himself by his bootstraps from a poor kid in the Midwest and created this image that is The Great Gatsby and it's a truly American story in that regard.”

Thinking Character Stories Dream Kids Poor Emotion Connections Regard Midwest Bootstraps

Author:Leonardo DiCaprio

“I think actors who know their job know that's how you do it. You don't show up and make people miserable. That poor grip who's standing there, he just wants to feed his family. He doesn't need to hear about your psychosis on life and love and death.”

People Thinking Knows Want Needs Shows Jobs Actors Poor Standing And Love Miserable Life And Love Standing There Psychosis Love And Death

Author:Charlize Theron

“I am not an economic determinist. If I were, I would throw up my hands; I just would not bother. I think it's wrong to be an economic determinist. I think it's wrong to simply say, "Well, inevitably, if you're poor, you're going to get a lousy education; if you're lower-middle class, the cards are going to be stacked against you, and you'll probably never get anywhere".”

Ifs Thinking Wells Hands Poor Class Economic Middle Cards Bother Middle Class

Author:Robert Reich

“If all the earth were paper white / And all the sea were ink / 'Twere not enough for me to write / As my poor heart doth think.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Heart Enough Earth White Poor Sea Paper Ink

Author:John Lyly

“What you say of the pride of giving life to an immortal soul is very fine dear, but I own I cannot enter into that: I think much more of our being like a cow or a dog at such moments: when our poor nature becomes so very animal and unecstatic”

Thinking Giving Soul Moments Animal Poor Dog Pride Fine Dear Immortal Cows Immortal Soul

Author:Queen Victoria

“I don't think the rich or the poor are to blame, .. I think we are all to blame.”

Thinking Poor Rich Blame

Author:Jonathan Jakubowicz

“Borrowing money on what's called 'easy terms,' is a one-way ticket to the Poor House. If you think it ain't a Sucker Game, why is your Banker the richest man in your Town? Why is your Bank the biggest and finest building in your Town? Instead of passing Bills to make borrowing easy, if Congress had passed a Bill that no Person could borrow a cent of Money from any other person, they would have gone down in History as committing the greatest bit of Legislation in the World.”

“I think that there are excellent and poor thinking habits just as there are healthy and unhealthy eating habits; and when a man really knows how to think, you cannot necessarily assert that he thinks too much in a strictly negative connotation. Perhaps this is in a sense food for thought, whereas the other is fool for thought.”

Thinking Knows Men Poor Know How Too Much Fool Habit Healthy Eating Negative Excellent Unhealthy Connotation Eating Habits

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important.”

Thinking Important Ideas Helping Success Inspiring Poor Business Rich Rich Kids

Author:Bill Gates

“If people really want to go, and really try all their lives, I think they will get in; for I don't believe there are any locks on that door, or any guards at the gate. I always imagine it is as it is in the picture, where the shining ones stretch out their hands to welcome poor Christian as he comes up from the river.”

Source: The Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated): Novels, Short Stories, Plays & Poems: Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men, Jo's Boys, A Modern Mephistopheles, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, Jack and Jill, Behind a Mask, The Abbot's Ghost…

“Republicans ... are conservatives who think it would be best if we faced the fact that people are no damned good. They think that if we admit that we have selfish, acquisitive natures and then set out to get all we can for ourselves by working hard for it, that things will be better for everyone. They are not insensitive to the poor, but tend to think the poor are impoverished because they won't work. They think there would be fewer of them to feel sorry for if the government did not encourage the proliferation of the least fit among us with welfare programs.”

People Ifs Thinking Feels Hard Facts Government Would Be Poor Fit Republican Program Sorry Selfish Welfare Fewer Proliferation Insensitive Welfare Programs

Author:Andy Rooney

“Businessmen should not put their finger in politics, because they tend to think only of their own self-interest. But I worry about the low morale in Italian industry and the lack of government initiatives to help the poor.”

Thinking Should Self Helping Government Interest Poor Worry Industry Lows Fingers Italian Initiative Businessman Self Interest Morale Help The Poor

Author:Diego Della Valle

“I don't think anyone sets out to malign poor people but certainly that's what we do through organizations such as the World Trade Organization, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.”

People Thinking World Poor Organization Trade International Fund Poor People Monetary World Trade World Bank World Trade Organization

Author:Bob Geldof

“Civil rights for all Americans, black, white, red, yellow, the rich, poor, young, old, gay, straight, et cetera, is not a liberal or a conservative value. It's an American value that I would think that we pretty much all agree on.”

Thinking Young Values Black White Poor Rich Rights Gay Red Agree Conservative Civil Rights Yellow Black White American Values Rich Poor Conservative Values

Author:Jerry Falwell

“I think evil is our collective shadow. Each one of us has a tendency for the diabolical. If I put you in inhumane conditions, if you're not educated, if you're extremely poor, if you're humiliated, then as a child if you suffer abuse, then you will manifest even when you grow up.”

Ifs Thinking Children Suffering Evil Grows Poor Growing Up Conditions Shadow Abuse Tendencies Educated Collectives Manifest Humiliated Diabolical Inhumane

Author:Deepak Chopra

“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

“People who are well-known, famous people, I think, make very poor characters for fiction. They make good characters for gossip columns. But not for fiction.”

People Thinking Wells Character Poor Fiction Known Gossip Well Known Columns Good Character Poor Character

Author:Fran Lebowitz

“Fishes do not roar; they cannot express any sound of suffering; and therefore the angler chooses to think they do not suffer, more than it is convenient for him to fancy. Now it is a poor sport that depends for its existence on the want of a voice in the sufferer, and of imagination in the sportsman.”

Thinking Want Suffering Sports Sound Voice Imagination Poor Existence Depends Fishes Fancy Convenient Sufferers Sportsman Anglers

Book:Leigh Hunt's London Journal

Source: Leigh Hunt's London Journal

“Very little comes easily to our poor, benighted species (the first creature, after all, to experiment with the novel evolutionary inventions of self-conscious philosophy and art). Even the most "obvious," "accurate," and "natural" style of thinking or drawing must be regulated by history and won by struggle. Solutions must therefore arise within a social context and record the complex interactions of mind and environment that define the possibility of human improvement.”

Source: Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms

“I think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity. Its record for being accurately predictive is really, really poor! If you look at the whole history of science fiction, what people have said is going to happen, what writers have said is going to happen, and what actually happened - it's terrible.”

People Ifs Thinking Looks Said Important Whole Happens Poor Fiction Records Happened Terrible Capacity Important Things Science Fiction History Of Science

Author:William Gibson

“I think this has been a class war waged by the rich against the poor, and I think that they won. And I think the poor are fighting back.”

Thinking Has Beens War Fighting Poor Class Rich Fighting Back

Author:Naomi Klein

“The labouring poor, to use a vulgar expression, seem always to live from hand to mouth. Their present wants employ their whole whole attention, and they seldom think of the future. Even when they have an opportunity of saving they seldom exercise it, but all that is beyond their present neccessities goes, generally speaking, to the ale house.”

Thinking Want Whole Use Hands Seems Opportunity House Poor Attention Expression Exercise Mouths Saving Vulgar Ale

Book:An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated

Source: An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated

“Doing the same things you did when the economy was good is not good enough. You will have to put more coals on the fire in a poor economy to get the same heat you received in a good economy. You must give more energy, more thought, more service, and get into positive thinking material more frequently. Become more selective about who you spend time with. Love a little more, hate a little less. Think about it. You can progressively move on an upward path toward any goal. The choice is yours as to who or what controls you!”

Thinking Giving Littles Enough Moving Hate Choices Energy Goal Poor Economy Path Fire Positive Thinking Materials Heat Good Enough End Times Coal Spend Time Not Good Enough Selective

Author:Bob Proctor

“The Christian who drinks cannot win his drinking companions to Christ. The girl who dances will never win her dancing boyfriend! You may think to gain favor and influence with the unsaved by joining with them in the lodge, or attending with them the movies, or by smoking or drinking or playing bridge with them, but you cannot! Worldliness means powerlessness! And that means that every Christian who sells out is guilty of the murder of the poor lost souls that go to Hell because he lost his influence.”

“Being Black and poor is, I think, radically different from being anything else and poor. Poor, to most Blacks, is a state of mind. Those who accept it are poor; those who struggle are middle class.”

Thinking Mind Different States Black Poor Accepting Class Poverty Struggle Middle Middle Class State Of Mind

Book:Sacred cows-- and other edibles

Source: Sacred cows-- and other edibles

“The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.”

Thinking Poor Rich Bears Weak Fatigue

Author:William Cowper

“The first time I received an award, I was very surprised. I did not know whether to accept it or not. But I came to the conclusion that I should accept awards in the name of the poorest poor, as a form of homage to them. I think that basically, when awards are given to me, the existence of the poor in the world is being recognized.”

Thinking Knows World Should Firsts Form Names Given Poor Existence Accepting Poverty First Time Conclusion Awards Poorest Homage

Author:Mother Teresa

“Is there no Villain in this World who doth not regard himself as a poor abus'd Innocent, no She-Wolf who doth not think herself a Lamb, no Shark who doth not fancy that she is a Goldfish?”

Thinking World Poor This World Regard Innocent Fancy Villain Lambs Sharks Goldfish

Book:Fanny

Source: Fanny

“Poor Mary Ann! She gave the guy an inch and now he thinks he's a ruler.”

Thinking Guy Poor Inches Mary Rulers

Author:Mae West

“a great deal of the wealth at the top is built on the low-wage labor of the poor. Take Wal-Mart, our largest private employer and premiere exploiter of the working class. ... You think it's a coincidence that this union-busting low-wage retail empire happens to have generated a $65 billion family fortune?”

Source: Going to Extremes: Notes from a Divided Nation

“My mother imparted her daily truths so she could help my older brothers and me rise above our circumstances. We lived in San Francisco's Chinatown. Like most of the other Chinese children who played in the back alleys of restaurants and curio shops, I didn't think we were poor. My bowl was always full, three five-course meals every day, beginning with a soup full of mysterious things I didn't want to know the names of.”

Source: The Joy Luck Club

“Don't think to come over me with th' old tale, that the rich know nothing of the trials of the poor; I say, if they don't know, they ought to know.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Poor Rich Ought Trials Tales Rich And Poor

Book:Mary Barton a Tale of Manchester Life by Mrs. Gaskell

Source: Mary Barton a Tale of Manchester Life by Mrs. Gaskell

“Who could not be moved by the sight of that poor, demoralized rabble, outwitted, outflanked, outmanoeuvered by the U.S. military? Yet, given time, I think the press will bounce back.”

Thinking Given Poor Military Sight Moved Presses Bounce Demoralized

Author:James Baker

“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 more we associate experience with cash value, the more we think that money is what we need to live. And the more we associate money with life, the more we convince ourselves that we're too poor to buy our freedom.”

Thinking Needs Values Poor Convince Cash Associates

Book:Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel

Source: Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel

“As towards most other things of which we have but little personal experience (foreigners, or socialists, or aristocrats, as the case may be), there is a degree of vague ill-will towards what is called Thinking. ... I am tempted to believe that much of the mischief thus laid at the door of that poor unknown quantity Thinking is really due to its ubiquitous twin-brother Talking.”

Source: Hortus Vitae: Essays on the Gardening of Life

“We think of poverty as a condition simply meaning a lack of funds, no money, but when one sees fifth, sixth, and seventh generation poor, it is clear that poverty is as complicated as high finance.”

Thinking Poor Poverty Clear Generations Conditions Complicated Finance Fund Fifth No Money

Book:A Hero Ain't Nothin But a Sandwich

Source: A Hero Ain't Nothin But a Sandwich

“I think drugs affect poor people and people of color more than anyone.”

People Thinking Poor Color Drug Poor People

Author:Al Sharpton

“My wife and I were poor when I started but we struggled along until things happened for me in my thirties. I knew I was doing what I loved even if I wasn't getting paid for it, so I think I'd still be doing it.”

Ifs Thinking Stills Poor Wife Happened Paid My Wife Things Happen

Author:Denis Leary

“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