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• At Harvard, the strong and savvy and confident thrived, while the nice or shy or quaintly moral were just bit players. In Ysleta, you believed in God because you were poor and needed something to hold on to. At Harvard, you believed in your good luck or bad luck, in all-nighters, in your political savvy.

  Sergio Troncoso

  Strong, Nice, Good Luck

  Sergio Troncoso (2011). “From This Wicked Patch of Dust”, p.97, University of Arizona Press

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• Victorian values meant brutalizing people who were often poor.

  Charles Palliser

  People, Victorian, Values

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• Well, you can do whatever you want, but just don’t call it inequality. Put the word poverty there. Because we have many rich people on our board, and when they see the word poverty that makes them feel good, because [it means] they’re really nice people who care about the poor. When they see the word inequality it makes them upset, because [it means] you want to take money from them.

  Branko Milanovic

  Nice, Mean, People

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• I am, myself, a very poor visualizer and find that I can seldom call to mind even a single letter of the alphabet in purely retinal terms. I must trace the letter by running my mental eye over its contour in order that the image of it shall leave any distinctness at all.

  William James

  Running, Eye, Order

  William James (1950). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.61, Courier Corporation

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• Don't be didactic - don't write about poverty. Write about poor people. When you dramatize their lives and let life and characters be your inspiration, you will express the 'idea' dynamically and without preaching.

  Robert McKee

  Inspiration, Writing, Character

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• Poor people are gross and they 'smell bad

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Smell, People, Gross

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• O, how wretched is that poor man that hangs on princes' favors.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Favors, Lucifer

  'Henry VIII' (1613) act 3, sc. 2, l. 352

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• It's important to be thankful, even if you're poor. I mean, come on, we all have clean water—well OK, not people in the developing world.

  Avril Lavigne

  Mean, Water, People

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• Bring the genius of the rich to unleash the genius of the poor.

  Tony Meloto

  Genius, Rich

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• If there are poor on the moon, we will go there too.

  Mother Teresa

  Moon, Ifs

  Mother Teresa (1996). “In My Own Words”

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• The whole point with type is for you not to be aware it is there. If you remember the shape of a spoon with which you just ate some soup, then the spoon had a poor shape.

  Adrian Frutiger

  Spoons, Shapes, Soup

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To live with Jesus is to live with the poor. To live with the poor is to live with Jesus.

  Jean Vanier

  Jesus

  Jean Vanier, Ann Shearer (1989). “Community and Growth”, p.95, Paulist Press

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• A poor fisherman who knows the beauties of the misty mornings is much richer than a wealthy man who sleeps till noon in his palace!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Morning, Sleep, Men

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• A society which has poor people on its streets is a failed society!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  People, Poor People, Streets

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• Always find a time to sit on a humid autumn bench to feed the poor birds or to think the dying leaves!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Autumn, Thinking, Bird

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• Cheerful poor is rich with a smile, sulky rich is poor with a bullion of gold.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Cheerful, Gold, Sulky

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• Even the poorest street is rich with people on it and even the richest street is poor without people on it!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  People, Rich, Streets

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• He who laughs and loves is always rich; he who sulks and hates is always poor!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Hate, Love Is, Laughing

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• How very dull our lives would be without literature! How very much dark and poor, how so sad and empty the world would be!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Dark, World, Dull

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• for the poor the whole world is a self-constituted critic; your smallest action is open to debate. No secret place of your soul is safe from invasion.

  Alice Foote MacDougall

  Self, Secret Places, Soul

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• You the rich are no whit more attractive or capable than you who were poor and struggling a few years back. But when before you plodded lonely and unappreciated, now the glamour of the motor and the smart apartment surrounds you with a tangible glory. It is amazing how many friends look you up, call you by name, and extol you, who were once a little timid, or indifferent, or utterly neglectful in your time of dire poverty. One has true friends when one is poor and no riches can be greater than that. They are not so obvious when one is rich.

  Alice Foote MacDougall

  Friendship, Success, Lonely

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• To have come on all this new world of writing, with time to read in a city like Paris where there was a way of living well and working, no matter how poor you were, was like having a great treasure given to you.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Cities, Paris

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.102, Simon and Schuster

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• A poor old man held the winning ticket on a half million dollar lottery. Hearing the old man might be surprised at the shock, the local pastor was asked to break the news gradually. The pastor made a customary call, and while visiting casually asked the old man what he would do with a half million dollars if he had it. The old man replied, "why, I'd give half of it to you." Whereupon the pastor dropped dead.

  Art Linkletter

  Winning, Past, Men

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• There are two forms of disappointment that interest me: religious and political disappointment. Religious disappointment flows from the realization that religious belief is not an option for us. Political disappointment flows from the fact that there is injustice - that we live in a world that is radically unjust and violent, where might seems to equal right, where the poor are exploited by the rich, etc.

  Simon Critchley

  Religious, Disappointment, Two

  Simon Critchley, Carl Cederström, Todd Kesselman (2011). “Impossible Objects”, p.31, Polity

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• We have very stable mechanisms of conflict resolution in terms of labor relations, we have a very good transportation infrastructure, we provide our children with an excellent education and the gap between rich and poor in Germany is relatively narrow. On the other hand, we have trouble accepting change.

  Angela Merkel

  Children, Hands, Gaps

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