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• The essence of capitalism is expressed in two of its basic features: a) profit maximization and b) market competition. In their abstract formulations none of them was supposed to have anything conspiratorial against the poor. But in real life they turn out to be the "killers" of the poor - by making rich the richer and poor the poorer.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Real, Essence, Two

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• I gave up accounting. I went in for about six months writing ad copy. I was fired from that, and then another guy and I did a kind of poor man's Bob and Ray kind of syndicated radio show. Then I decided to stick it out and see what happened. I'd give it a year, a year became two years, and then two years became three years, and then along came the record album.

  Bob Newhart

  Writing, Men, Years

  Interview with Michelle Zoromski, www.ign.com. July 2, 2003.

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• The idea that any personal deity could find pleasure or profit in torturing a poor woman, by accident, with a fiendish cruelty known to man only in perverted and insane temperaments, could not be held for a moment. For pure blasphemy, it made pure atheism a comfort.

  Henry Adams

  Men, Ideas, Atheism

  Benjamin Franklin, Ulysses S Grant, Andrew Carnegie, Henry Adams (2016). “Great American Lives: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, and The Education of Henry Adams”, p.1519, Open Road Media

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• The person who's in the Zen monastery, who's doing a kind of poor job at meditating and a half-ass job cleaning the gardens is not doing very good yoga.

  Frederick Lenz

  Jobs, Yoga, Buddhism

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• People who work to bring about perfection see work as an extension of themselves. The point is to do a good job. That will empower you. To do a poor job will make you weaker.

  Frederick Lenz

  Success, Jobs, Buddhism

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• The reader may ask himself if this is not cruelty and injustice of a kind so terrible that it beggars the imagination, and whether these poor people would not fare far better if they were entrusted to the devils in Hell than they do at the hands of the devils of the New World who masquerade as Christians.

  Bartolome de las Casas

  Christian, Hands, Imagination

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• Growing up on a farm taught me a reverence for all forms of life. We were a large and poor farm family, so that meant that we had to kill and eat our animal friends. When you do that you are aware of the sacrifice that someone is making so that you may live. My mother always made sure we were thankful for those precious gifts.

  Roger Fouts

  Mother, Growing Up, Sacrifice

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• I am a poor mendicant. My earthly possessions consist of six spinning wheels, prison dishes, a can of goat's milk, six homespun loincloths and towels and my reputation, which cannot be worth much.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Atheism, Goats, Towels

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.40, A&C Black

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• He who fights with priests may make up his mind to have his poor good name torn and befouled by the most infamous lies and the most cutting slanders.

  Heinrich Heine

  Lying, Fighting, Cutting

  Heinrich Heine (1866). “Pictures of Travel”, p.466

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• Anybody can see that the little money you get is half-wasted, because you cannot spend it to advantage. The worst food comes to the poor, which their poverty makes them buy and their necessity makes them eat. Their stomachs are the waste-basket of the State. It is their lot to swallow all the adulterations on the market.

  George Holyoake

  Atheism, Half, Littles

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• If we have a giant mansion and we don't keep it as well as that room, then our yoga isn't good and our attention field will be very poor and we won't have power, and we'll be totally hooked on the transient .

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Giants, Attention

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• People can very quickly have a very poor self-image. It doesn't take much.

  Paddy Considine

  Self, People, Poor Self Image

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. November 17, 2011.

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• Creative new health strategies like micro-insurance for poor people or Kangaroo care for pre-term babies are transforming health outcomes in even the most low-resource settings. Dedication and innovation are transforming health care worldwide.

  Liya Kebede

  Baby, Dedication, People

  "Redefining “Impossible” When It Comes To Maternal Mortality" by Liya Kebede, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 21, 2010.

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• No other health disparity is so stark; virtually every woman who dies giving birth lives in a poor country.

  Liya Kebede

  Country, Giving, Birth Life

  "Let’s Make Mother’s Day a Global Reality" by Liya Kebede, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 7, 2009.

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• We in the West must bear in mind that the poor countries are poor primarily because we have exploited them through political or economic colonialism.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Country, Political, Mind

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “"In a Single Garment of Destiny": A Global Vision of Justice”, p.92, Beacon Press

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• Angus Deaton has written a wonderful book, The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality. . . . Deaton's book is a magisterial overview of health, income, and wealth from the industrial revolution to the present, taking in countries poor and rich. Not just jargon-free but equation-free, the book is written with a beautifully lucid style. . . . [P]owerfully argued and convincing.

  Michael Marmot

  Country, Book, Style

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• For all the gold and silver stolen and shipped to Spain did not make the Spanish people richer. It gave their kings an edge in the balance of power for a time, a chance to hire more mercenary soldiers for their wars. They ended up losing those wars anyway, and all that was left was a deadly inflation, a starving population, the rich richer, the poor poorer, and a ruined peasant class

  Hans Koning

  Kings, War, Class

  Hans Koning (1992). “Columbus: His Enterprise: Exploding the Myth”, p.118, NYU Press

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• Developed countries will always welcome the Einsteins of this world - those individuals whose talents are already recognized and deemed to have value. This welcome doesn't usually extend to the poor and uneducated people seeking to enter the country. But the truth, supported by the facts of history and the richness of immigrant contribution to America's distinction in the world, is that the most entrepreneurial, innovative, motivated citizen is the one who has been given an opportunity and wants to repay the debt.

  Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa

  Country, Opportunity, America

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• Who has not seen how women bully women? What tortures have men to endure compared to those daily repeated shafts of scorn and cruelty with which poor women are riddled by the tyrants of their sex?

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Sex, Men, Tyrants

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1848). “Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero”, p.111

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• Let us people who are so uncommonly clever and learned have a great tenderness and pity for the poor folks who are not endowed with the prodigious talents which we have.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Clever, People, Talent

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2008). “The Christmas Books of Mr. M.a.titmarsh: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.220, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Every living thing was shunning him. Poor little Peter Pan, he sat down and cried, and even then he did not know that, for a bird, he was sitting on his wrong part. It is a blessing that he did not know, for otherwise he would have lost faith in his power to fly, and the moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it. The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply that they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.

  James M. Barrie

  Blessing, Wings, Perfect

  James M. Barrie (2013). “The Little White Bird (Annotated Edition)”, p.85, Jazzybee Verlag

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• [On John Brown:] The poor wretch is hanged, but from his grave a root of bitterness will spring, the fruit of which at no distant day may be disunion and civil war.

  Fanny Kemble

  Spring, War, Roots

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• My chief time for reading is at night while brushing my hair before I go to bed, and as you may suppose, but little profit and pleasure can be derived from such mere sips at the well of knowledge. 'Tis a great privation to me, for my desire for information increases instead of diminishing, and I look forward with great anxiety to the time when I can improve my poor neglected mind and learn some of the few exhaustless store of things which I wish to know.

  Fanny Kemble

  Reading, Night, Hair

  Fanny Kemble, Fanny Kemble Wister (1972). “Fanny, the American Kemble: her journals and unpublished letters”

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• Those who cannot remember clearly their own childhood are poor educators.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Childhood, Remember, Educator

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• Runners are poor walkers.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Personality, Runners, Walkers

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