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• I'm sorry for the anguished hearts that break with passion's strain, But I'm sorrier for the poor starved souls that never knew love's pain, Who hunger on through barren years not tasting joys they crave, For sadder far is such a lot than weeping o'er a grave.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Sad, Pain, Sorry

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.1002, Delphi Classics

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• Charity is to unburden you from your guilt, so you say, `I am doing something: I going to open a hospital, going to open a college. I give money to this charity fund, to that trust....` You feel a little happier. The world has lived in poverty, the world has lived in scarcity, ninety-nine percent of people have lived a poor life, almost starving and dying, and only one percent of people have lived with richness, with money - they have always felt guilty. To help them, the religions developed the idea of charity. It is to rid them of their guilt.

  Rajneesh

  College, Ideas, Ninety Nine

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• Babies don't know who's rich and who's poor. You love 'em and they're happy.

  Chris Rock

  Baby, Ems, Rich

  Source: www.oprah.com

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• Most people are poor not because they are not smart - most people are poor or struggle financially because they're fearful of losing.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Smart, Struggle, People

  "Author of "Rich Dad Poor Dad", Robert Kiyosaki TalkAsia Interview". "Talk Asia" with Lorraine Hahn, www.cnn.com. March 16, 2005.

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• There are three dominant tendencies in a neoliberal society: financialized, privatized, militarized. And when it comes to black poor people, we get all three.

  Cornel West

  People, Black, Three

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If we all gave all our goods to the poor, the church would fall apart. If we all hated our father and mother, as Jesus told us to, there'd be an end of the church's emphasis on the family as being the one important thing holding the whole society together. There are all sorts of ways in which the church's teachings contradict directly what Jesus says in the Gospel.

  Philip Pullman

  Mother, Jesus, Father

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• If one is talking to a finance minister of a poor country, moral arguments tend not to get very far. But if you can argue that their country is going to grow 2 percent faster per year if they can just harness the power of the female half of the population more effectively, that is an argument they consider.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Country, Talking, Years

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• What keeps India safe really is the heroism of millions of poor Indians who every day reject the allure of terrorism. What keeps India safe is just the courage of poor Indians, not the actions of its government.

  Aravind Adiga

  Government, Heroism, India

  "MoJo Interview: Aravind Adiga". Interview with Sonja Sharp, www.motherjones.com. June 19, 2009.

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• Once you open that door to a values conversation, it's going to undercut a right-wing economic agenda, which values wealth over work and favors the rich over the poor, or resorts to war as the first resort and not the last.

  Jim Wallis

  War, Doors, Wings

  "God’s Politics: An Interview With Jim Wallis". Interview with Michal Lumsden, www.motherjones.com. March 10, 2005.

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• I'm a reader of milblogs, but as with all blogs, the wheat/chaff ratio makes it a poor investment of time.

  Garry Trudeau

  Ratios, Wheat, Investment

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• In fact, my entire childhood consisted of looking at photographs in which the viewer sees the ball behind the line, looking through the goal net, and the poor goalkeeper in front of the net.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Goal, Childhood, Balls

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Throughout my whole life money has always been a problem. But I didn't realize that we were poor when we were kids!

  Charlyne Yi

  Kids, Problem, Realizing

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I had a very good time when I did The Gleaners - even though the people are poor, and I was suffering to see the conditions, and plus they are not such lovely hearts. They are tough to each other, they beat each other, they are rude and they are violent and they drink. They're not sweethearts, you know, but some were so interesting.

  Agnes Varda

  Heart, People, Interesting

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2009.

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• I wanted to catch the problem of consumption, waste, poor people eating what we throw away, which is a big subject. But I didn't want to become a sociologue, an ethnographe, a serious thinker. I thought I should be free, even in a documentary which has a very serious subject.

  Agnes Varda

  People, Want, Serious Subjects

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2009.

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• 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.

  Bill Bailey

  Funny, Dream, Country

  "Bill Bailey: Dandelion Mind". Documentary, Comedy, 2010.

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• We were so poor; the ultimate luxury in our house at the time was ashtrays without advertisements.

  Chic Murray

  Funny, Humor, Luxury

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• I lost my virginity under a bridge. I was having sex with this poor girl and I was trying my best, but I was like Scotland at a World Cup - just pleased to be there.

  Russell Howard

  Funny, Girl, Sex

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• If a girl is in love with a poor guy and chooses him, then that is worst for her. If she chooses a rich man, it will be to her advantage. Everything will be fine.

  Odd Nerdrum

  Girl, Men, Guy

  Source: sturm-lie.be

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• 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.

  Odd Nerdrum

  Football, Boys, Talking

  Source: sturm-lie.be

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• I believe in positive despotism. That means an exchange between people. I'm thinking about the fact that someone serves me breakfast in my bed. I can not see anything wrong in that. Because everything is a question of exchanges between people. Everyone has some specific possibilities and can to a certain extent do whatever they want. If one wants to become rich one can study economy and if one wants to be poor one can choose to become a professor in butterfly wings for example. So we can choose.

  Odd Nerdrum

  Believe, Butterfly, Mean

  Source: sturm-lie.be

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• Climate change is a moral challenge, not simply an economic or technological problem. It is linked to social justice, because it is the poor citizens of the world who will suffer the most from our excesses.

  Alison Hawthorne Deming

  Justice, Challenges, Suffering

  Interview with Simmons B. Buntin, www.terrain.org. September 22, 2010.

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• The great thing about being rich is, you can embrace practices that kill the poor - that's what socialism does.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Practice, Doe, Socialism

  Source: www.salon.com

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• Can our culture be reclaimed? How can we stay free in the next century? While people of other countries have been restricted m to pursue prosperity, bounded only by the limits of his or her imagination. Besides, only a conservative would ask how we can STAY prosperous and free in the 21st century. A liberal would whine that only a few are prosperous-the evil rich who have somehow gotten rich off the backs of the poor.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, People, Evil

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• I feel good when I'm engaged in what I think are the core issues of the society, and those core issues to me are what's happening to poor folks in this society.

  Barack Obama

  Powerful, Thinking, Issues

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I am not very good at statistics. I am also a poor thinker.

  Manmohan Singh

  Motivational, Statistics, Very Good

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