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• The mastery of one's phonemes may be compared to the violinist's mastery of fingering. The violin string lends itself to a continuous gradation of tones, but the musician learns the discrete intervals at which to stop the string in order to play the conventional notes. We sound our phonemes like poor violinists, approximating each time to a fancied norm, and we receive our neighbor's renderings indulgently, mentally rectifying the more glaring inaccuracies.

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  Music, Order, Play

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• Confronted with the unhappy facts of exclusion, we sometimes reassure ourselves by telling stories: the poor boys who made it, theblacks who became a "credit to their race," the women elected to high office, the handicapped who made "useful contributions" to our society.... Just as we believe in the self-sufficient family, we also believe that any child with enough grit and ability can escape poverty and make a rewarding life. But these stories and beliefs clearly reflect the exceptions.

  Kenneth Keniston

  Children, Believe, Boys

  Kenneth Keniston (1977). “All Our Children: The American Family Under Pressure”, Harcourt on Demand

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• It is misleading to discuss recent changes in family life without emphasizing the fact that for generations some Americans have had to raise children under particularly appalling pressures. Although much of what is worrying American parents is shared by them all, the most grievous problems are those that especially afflict a large minority--the poor, the nonwhite and, in various ways, the parents of handicapped children.

  Kenneth Keniston

  Children, Worry, Parent

  Kenneth Keniston, Carnegie Council on Children (1977). “All our children: the American family under pressure”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• Poor children live in a particularly dangerous world--an urban world of broken stair railings, of busy streets serving as playgrounds, of lead paint, rats and rat poisons, or a rural world where families do not enjoy the minimal levels of public health accepted as standard for nearly a century. Whether in city or country, this is a world where cavities go unfilled and ear infections threatening permanent deafness go untreated. It is world where even a small child learns to be ashamed of the way he or she lives.

  Kenneth Keniston

  Country, Children, Dangerous World

  Kenneth Keniston, Carnegie Council on Children (1977). “All our children: the American family under pressure”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• One curve I'll always remember was when I was pitching for Pittsburgh. Terry Kennedy was a young player with St. Louis. I threw him an 0-2 curve and it snapped. Terry's reaction was to swing straight down, like he was chopping the plate with an axe. It was the last out of the inning. After I ran off the mound, I looked over at the St. Louis dugout. There were players rolling around on the floor, laughing. Poor Terry. I'll have to admit that was a hell of a curveball.

  Bert Blyleven

  Player, Curves, Swings

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• Congress is thinking about eliminating a federal program under which scientists broadcast signals to Alien beings. This would be a large mistake. Alien beings have atomic blaster death cannons. You cannot cut off their federal programs as if they were merely poor people.

  Dave Barry

  Mistake, Cutting, Thinking

  "Dave Barry's Bad Habits". Book by Dave Barry, September 15, 1993.

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• It is a poor thing to strike our colors to God when the ship is going down under us; a poor thing to come to Him as a last resort, to offer up 'our own' when it is no longer worth keeping. If God were proud He would hardly have us on such terms: but He is not proud, He stoops to conquer, He will have us even though we have shown that we prefer everything else to Him.

  C. S. Lewis

  Color, Lasts, Ships

  "The Problem of Pain". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1940.

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• When you're poor, you have nothing to lose and be afraid of. Holding onto the dream and having nothing to lose is what helped me succeed.

  Cesar Millan

  Dream, Succeed, Holding On

  FaceBook post by Cesar Millan from Sep 27, 2013

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• God makes confetti out of our titles and accomplishments to celebrate the poor and the humble.

  Bob Goff

  Humble, Accomplishment, Titles

  Twitter post from May 28, 2015

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• Boxing's a poor man's sport. We can't afford to play golf or tennis. It is what it is. It's kept so many kids off the street. It kept me off the street.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Sports, Kids, Golf

  Interview with Kam Williams, www.kamwilliams.com. July 16, 2012.

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• The Jewish usurers are fast-rooted even in the smallest villages, and if they lend five gulden they require a security of six times as much. They charge interest, upon interest, and upon this again interest, so that the poor man loses everything that he owns.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Men, Village, Six

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• I've always rebelled a little when people say, 'My Jewish values lead me to really care about the poor.' I know some Christians who care about the poor, too.

  William Kristol

  Christian, Jewish Values, People

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• Get a millionaire mentor. Most of us were brought up middle class or poor and then hold ourselves to the limits and ideas of that group. I have been studying millionaires to duplicate what they did. Get your own personal millionaire mentor and study them. Most rich people are extremely generous with their knowledge and their resources.

  Grant Cardone

  Class, Ideas, People

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• When a performer goes out on a stage, they may feel the audience is judging every aspect of them and their life. In fact, all that poor audience is doing is waiting to be entertained a little.

  Suzanne Falter-Barns

  Judging, Waiting, Facts

  Suzanne Falter-Barns (1999). “How Much Joy Can You Stand?: How to Push Past Your Fears and Create Your Dreams”, Beyond Words Publishing Company

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• 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.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Taken, Mirrors

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• The Poor Peasants' Committees are necessary to fight the kulaks, the rich, the exploiters, who shackle the working peasants.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Fighting, Rich, Shackles

  "Draft Of Telegram To All Soviets Of Deputies Concerning The Worker-Peasant Alliance". Collected Works, Volume 28, p. 58, www.marxists.org.

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• But colonialism in its harshest forms is not only the exploitation of new nations by old, of dark skins by light, or the subjugation of the poor by the rich. My Nation was once a colony,
  and we know what colonialism means; the exploitation and subjugation of the weak by the powerful, of the many by the few, of the governed who have given no consent to be governed, whatever
  their continent, their class, their color.

  John F. Kennedy

  Powerful, Mean, Dark

  Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 25 September 1961

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• He is the rich man in whom the people are rich, and he is the poor man in whom the people are poor; and how to give access to themasterpieces of art and nature, is the problem of civilization.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Men, Civilization

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.367

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• Government exists to defend the weak and the poor and the injured party; the rich and the strong can better take care of themselves.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, Party, Government

  Address delivered on the anniversary of the emancipation of the negroes in the British West Indies, Concord, Mass., 1 Aug. 1844

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• The poor and the low have their way of expressing the last facts of philosophy as well as you. "Blessed be nothing," and "The worse things are, the better they are," are proverbs which express the transcendentalism of common life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Philosophy, Blessed, Way

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.129, Courier Corporation

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• Get to know the poor in your country. Love them. Serve them.

  Mother Teresa

  Country, Humanity, Knows

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• Every one complains of a poor memory, no one of a weak judgment.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Memories, Complaining, Judgment

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• The poor complain that they are governed badly. The rich complain that they are governed at all.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Complaining, Rich

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• No, let us not make God in our image, poor inhabitants that we are of a distant planet lost in infinite space. However brilliant and sublime our intelligence may be, it is scarcely more than a small spark which shines and in an instant is extinguished, and it alone can give us no idea of that blaze, that conflagration, that ocean of light!

  Jose Rizal

  Ocean, Light, Ideas

  Letter to Fr. Pastells, April 04, 1893.

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• O God! I ask You for the means to do good, to avoid evil and to love the poor.

  Nazr Mohammed

  Love, Mean, Evil

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