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• The subjects of every state ought to contribute toward the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state ....As Henry Home (Lord Kames) has written, a goal of taxation should be to 'remedy inequality of riches as much as possible, by relieving the poor and burdening the rich.'

  Adam Smith

  Home, Government, Goal

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• A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.Most government is by the rich for the rich. Government comprises a large part of the organized injustice in any society, ancient or modern.Civil government, insofar as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defence of the rich against the poor, and for the defence of those who have property against those who have none.

  Adam Smith

  Reality, Government, Criminals

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• No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable. It is but equity, besides, that they who feed, clothe and lodge the whole body of the people, should have such a share of the produce of their own labour as to be themselves tolerably well fed, clothed and lodged.

  Adam Smith

  Should Have, People, Body

  Adam Smith (1827). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.33

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• Cynicism is cheap - you can buy it at any Monoprix store - it's built into all poor-quality goods.

  Graham Greene

  Quality Goods, Poor Quality, Cynicism

  GRAHAM GREENE (1966). “THE COMEDIANS”

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• Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.

  Francis Bacon

  Humanity, Divinity, Humans

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• My poor mom really wants me to meet someone. I think she wanted to believe the Ryan Gosling rumor more than anybody.

  Michelle Williams

  Mom, Believe, Thinking

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• Stardom equals financial success and financial success equals security. I've spent too much of my life feeling insecure. I still have nightmares about being poor, of everything I own just vanishing away. Stardom means that can't happen.

  Steve McQueen

  Mean, Insecure, Feelings

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• I am overwhelmed by an irresistible temptation to do my climb by moonlight and unroped. This is contrary to all my rock climbing teaching & does not mean poor training, but only a strong-headedness.

  William Shockley

  Strong, Teaching, Mean

  "Broken Genius : The Rise and Fall of William Shockley, Creator of the Electronic Age" by Joel N. Shurkin, (Ch. 7, p. 125), 2006.

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• I'm a liberal when it comes to human rights, the poor; so's George Bush. . . . But Liberal and Conservative don't mean much to me anymore. Does that mean we care about people and are interested and want to help? And if that makes you a Liberal, so be it.

  Barbara Bush

  Mean, Rights, People

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• I desired as many as could to join together in fasting and prayer, that God would restore the spirit of love and of a sound mind to the poor deluded rebels in America.

  John Wesley

  Prayer, America, Mind

  John Wesley (1835). “The Works of the Reverend John Wesley, A. M.”, p.476

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• Settle your quarrels, come together,
  understand the reality of our situation, understand that fascism is
  already here, that people are already dying who could be saved, that
  generations more will live poor butchered half-lives if you fail to
  act. Do what must be done, discover your humanity and your love in
  revolution.

  George Jackson

  Love, Failure, Reality

  George Jackson (1970). “Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson”, p.25, Chicago Review Press

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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.

  Hudson Taylor

  Christian, Prayer, Mean

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• If a man were poor or hungry, [some] would say, let us pray for him. I would suggest a little different regimen for a person in this condition: rather take him a bag of flour and a little beef or pork, and a little sugar and butter. A few such comforts will do him more good than your prayers. And I would be ashamed to ask the Lord to do something that I would not do myself. Then go to work and help the poor yourselves first, and do all you can for them, and then call upon God to do the balance.

  John Taylor

  Prayer, Work, Men

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• Realize that your physical experience and environment is the materialization of your beliefs. If you find great exuberance, health, effective work, abundance, smiles on the faces of those who you meet, then take it for granted that your beliefs are beneficial. If you see a world that is good, people like you, take it for granted again, that your beliefs are beneficial. But if you find poor health, a lack of meaningful work, a lack of abundance, a world of sorrow and evil, then assume your beliefs are faulty and begin examining them.

  Seth

  Meaningful, Evil, People

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• When the toll upon carriages of luxury, upon coaches, post-chaises, etc. is made somewhat higher in proportion to their weight, than upon carriages of necessary use, such as carts, wagons, etc. the indolence and vanity of the rich is made to contribute in a very easy manner to the relief of the poor, by rendering cheaper the transportation of heavy goods to all the different parts of the country.

  Adam Smith

  Country, Luxury, Necessary Use

  Adam Smith, John Ramsay McCulloch (1870). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”

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• The necessaries of life occasion the great expense of the poor. They find it difficult to get food, and the greater part of their little revenue is spent in getting it. The luxuries and vanities of life occasion the principal expense of the rich, and a magnificent house embellishes and sets off to the best advantage all the other luxuries and vanities which they possess ... It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion.

  Adam Smith

  Vanity, Progressive Taxation, Luxury

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• You look back and see how hard you worked and how poor you were, and how desperately anxious you were to succeed, and all you can remember is how happy you were.

  Jack London

  San Francisco, Succeed, Looks

  Jack London (1979). “No Mentor But Myself: A Collection of Articles, Essays, Reviews, and Letters on Writing and Writers”, Associated Faculty PressInc

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• The indiscriminate denunciation of the rich is mischievous.... No poor man was ever made richer or happier by it. It is quite as illogical to despise a man because he is rich as because he is poor. Not what a man has, but what he is, settles his class. We can not right matters by taking from one what he has honestly acquired to bestow upon another what he has not earned.

  Benjamin Harrison

  Men, Class, Matter

  Harrison, Benjamin (1901). “Views of an ex-president”, p.336, Best Books on

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• Without greater support for childcare, parents of young children may be forced to choose cheaper, poor quality care for their children or fail to provide it entirely.

  Tim Johnson

  Children, Poor Quality, Support

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• During the winter when the weather is too poor to work outside, I do use drawings and photographs, but I change my work so it is not just a time and place study.

  John Dyer

  Winter, Weather, Drawing

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• Capitalism lures us onward like the mechanical hare before the greyhounds,
  insisting that the economy is infinite and sharing therefore irrelevant. Just enough greyhounds catch a
  real hare now and then to keep the others running till they drop. In the past it was only the poor who
  lost this game; now it is the planet.

  Ronald Wright

  Running, Real, Past

  Ronald Wright (2010). “A Short History Of Progress”, p.124, Canongate Books

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• Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees, to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people, making widows their prey and robbing the fatherless.

  Isaiah

  Rights, Law, Issues

  Isaiah 10:1-4, www.biblegateway.com.

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• The poor and needy search for water, but there is none; their tongues are parched with thirst. But I the LORD will answer them; I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them. I will make rivers flow on barren heights, and springs within the valleys. I will turn the desert into pools of water, and the parched ground into springs.

  Isaiah

  Spring, Israel, Rivers

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• A dog doesn't care if you are rich or poor, educated of illiterate, clever or dull. Give him your heart and he will give you his. It was really quite simple, and yet we humans, so much wiser and more sophisticated, have always had trouble figuring out what really counts and what does not.

  John Grogan

  Dog, Clever, Heart

  John Grogan (2008). “Marley & Me tie-in: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog”, William Morrow Paperbacks

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• It's a poor bureaucrat who can't stall a good idea until even its sponsor is relieved to see it dead and officially buried.

  Robert Townsend

  Ideas, Sponsors, Buried

  Robert Townsend (1988). “Further up the organization”, HarperCollins

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