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• Art without life is a poor affair.

  Henry James

  Art, Life Is, Affair

  Henry James, James Edwin Miller (1972). “Theory of fiction: Henry James”

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• Without the great arts which speak to the sense of beauty, a man seems to me a poor, naked, shivering creature. These are his becoming draperies, which warm and adorn him.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Art, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Culture, Behavior, Beauty: Books, Art Eloquence. Power, Wealth, Illusions”

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• Our friendships hurry to short and poor conclusions, because we have made them a texture of wine and dreams, instead of the toughfibre of the human heart. The laws of friendship are austere and eternal, of one web with the laws of nature and of morals.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Dream, Heart

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. V (in 51 Volumes)”, p.113, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The test is always how we treat the poor.

  Robert Frost

  Tests, Treats

  Robert Frost (1971). “The poetry of Robert Frost”

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• Poor thing.
  To die and never see Brooklyn.

  Anne Sexton

  Brooklyn, Dies

  Anne Sexton (2001). “Transformations”, p.18, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.

  Abraham Kuyper

  Church, Austerity, Prolonging

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• Poverty is a crime and the poor are terrorists

  Arundhati Roy

  Poverty, Crime, Terrorist

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• Impatience has a poor track record for perfection. Getting things right usually includes calming down!

  Garrison Wynn

  Perfection, Track, Records

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• Africa is not poor, Africa is being looted

  Omali Yeshitela

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• Competitive skills are desperately needed by poor children in America, and realistic recognition of the economic roles that they may someday have an opportunity to fill is obviously important, too. But there is more to life, and there ought to be much more to childhood, than readiness for economic functions.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Children, Opportunity, Skills

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• One who knew how to appropriate the true value of this world would be the poorest man in it. The poor rich man! all he has is whathe has bought.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Would Be, World

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.249, Xist Publishing

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• A poor but humble man who gives nothing to charity is preferrable to a rich but haughty man who does.

  Nachman of Breslov

  Humble, Men, Giving

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• Even the poor should give something to charity.

  Nachman of Breslov

  Giving, Charity, Should

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• While it is probably a poor idea to own actively managed funds in general, it is truly a terrible idea to own them in taxable accounts... taxes are a drag on performance of up to 4 percentage points each year... many index funds allow your capital gains to grow largely undisturbed until you sell... For the taxable investor, indexing means never having to say you're sorry.

  William J. Bernstein

  Sorry, Mean, Years

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• The general systems of money management today require people to pretend to do something they can't do and like something they don't. It's a funny business because on a net basis, the whole investment management business together gives no value added to all buyers combined. That's the way it has to work. Mutual funds charge two percent per year and then brokers switch people between funds, costing another three to four percentage points. The poor guy in the general public is getting a terrible product from the professionals.

  John C. Bogle

  Years, Two, People

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• Plants don't close from poor workmanship, but from poor management.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Poor Management, Plant, Workmanship

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• ... not doing what we love in the name of greed is very poor management of our lives.

  Warren Buffett

  Life, Investment Success, Names

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• Diversification is a surrogate - and a damn poor surrogate - for knowledge, elements of control, and priceconsciousness.

  Martin J. Whitman

  Investing, Elements, Damn

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• Suppose you were a real estate investor with a 1/3 interest in the best apartment complex in town, the best mall, and the best office building. Would you feel like a poor, undiversified investor? No! But as soon as you get into stocks, people feel this way. Partly, people need to justify their fees.

  Charlie Munger

  Real, Office, People

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• To us, from the beginning, Nature has been but a poor plastic thing, to be toyed with this way or that, as man happens to please his deity or not; to go to church or not; to say his prayers right or not; to travel on a Sunday or not.Was it possible for us in an instant to see Nature as she is-the flowing vestment of an unchanging reality?

  Olive Schreiner

  Prayer, Sunday, Loss

  Olive Schreiner (2013). “The Story of an African Farm”, p.130, Courier Corporation

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• Poor teaching leads to the inevitable idea that the subject (mathematics) is only adapted to peculiar minds, when it is the one universal science and the one whose four ground-rules are taught us almost in infancy and reappear in the motions to the universe.

  Henry John Stephen Smith

  Teaching, School, Taught Us

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• Though it is folly to suppose that happiness is a matter of volition, and that we can make ourselves content and cheerful whenever we choose - a theory that many poor hypochondriacs are taunted with till they are nigh driven mad - yet, on the other hand, no sane mind is ever left without the power of self-discipline and self-control in a measure, which measure increases in proportion as it is exercised.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Self, Hands, Discipline

  "A Woman's Thoughts About Women" by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik, (Ch. 10), 1858.

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• Oh, had I received the education I desired, had I been bred to the profession of the law, I might have been a useful member of society, and instead of myself and my property being taken care of, I might have been a protector of the helpless, a pleader for the poor and unfortunate.

  Sarah Moore Grimke

  Taken, Responsibility, Law

  "The Grimke Sisters from South Carolina" by Gerda Lerner, Ch. 5, 1969.

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• In giving alms, let us rather look at the needs of the poor than his claim to your charity.

  Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

  Giving, Charity, Needs

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• I would have a man generous to his country, his neighbors, his kindred, his friends, and most of all his poor friends. Not like some who are most lavish with those who are able to give most of them.

  Pliny the Elder

  Country, Men, Generosity

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