Impoverished Quotes
101 quotes by 94 authors
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There are none so impoverished as those who do not acknowledge the abundance of their lives
— Richard Paul Evans
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A Dream of Undying Fame is a probing, elegant and balanced book. Louis Breger shows how Freud’s traumatic childhood shaped his ambitious, detached and authoritarian…
— Unknown Author
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Radicalism usually prospers in the gap between rising expectations and declining opportunities. This is especially true where the population is young, idle, and bored; where…
— Lawrence Wright
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As you probably know, I'm often accused of intellectual exhibitionism and all forms of elitism. Although I can understand this point of view, it's a…
— Peter Greenaway
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The artist must try to raise the level of taste of the masses, not debase himself to the level of unformed and impoverished taste.
— Diego Rivera
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It is chilling to think that the same people who persecuted the wise women and men of Europe, its midwives and healers, then crossed the…
— Alice Walker
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Why has time disappeared in our culture? How is it that after decades of inventions and new technologies devoted to saving time and labor, the…
— Jacob Needleman
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Conservatives may believe that impoverished borrowers destroyed Wall Street. But we liberals will not fool ourselves that stupid bankers sank conservatism for good.
— Thomas Frank
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If you don't go far enough back in memory or far enough ahead in hope, your future will be impoverished.
— Art Linkletter
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Impoverished is the life fenced in with few friends
— Spencer W. Kimball
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Nobody is ever impoverished through the giving of charity.
— Maimonides
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The trebling of the population in this small and impoverished country, flowing with milk and honey but not with sufficient water, rich in rocks and…
— David Ben-Gurion
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My mother was a schoolteacher and very keen that I go to a city school, so although it was fairly impoverished times, I traveled every…
— Edmund Hillary
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We cannot ignore the disparity in resources that continue to plague many of our school systems, especially those serving predominantly inner-city minority and impoverished children.
— Diane Watson
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The hoarders, who are anxiously worried about losing something, are, psychologically speaking, the poor impoverished people, regardless of how much they have. Whoever is capable…
— Erich Fromm
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Compassion, however, should mean providing a mechanism to escape poverty rather than simply maintaining people in an impoverished state by supplying handouts. By doing this…
— Benjamin Carson
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It is possible to enjoy the Mozart concerto without being able to play the clarinet. In fact, you can learn to be an expert connoisseur…
— Richard Dawkins
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When art is defined by Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons, you've got a society that's impoverished.
— Robert Adams
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As an impoverished student I used to spend days out in Selfridges, nibbling on samples of free cheese and dousing myself with scent in the…
— Zoe Tapper
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His death eclipsed the gayety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure.
— Samuel Johnson
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