Impoverished Quotes
101 Impoverished quotes by 94 unique authors
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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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Life rejuvenates and acquires energy when it multiplies: It is enriched, not impoverished!
— Pope Francis
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Medicaid protects impoverished children, the frail elderly and people in crisis, .. Its limited resources will be further stretched serving hurricane victims. Proponents of Medicaid…
— Sherrod Brown
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People have had to make up for their spiritual impoverishment by accumulating material things. When spiritual blessings come, material blessings seem unimportant. As long as…
— Peace Pilgrim
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People with an impoverished vocabulary live an impoverished emotional life; people with rich vocabularies have a multihued palette of colors with which to paint their…
— Tony Robbins
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Strong role models and unconditional love can heal even the most emotionally impoverished person, and that goes for adults as well as youngsters.
— Ann Landers
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Poor children in Baltimore face even worse odds than low-income kids elsewhere, mostly because they remain in impoverished neighborhoods.
— Gwen Ifill
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The People will not allow themselves to be changed into hogs by the Circes of Atheism. Their souls will flash indignation against their transformers. A…
— Alphonse de Lamartine
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We believe that a person who is impoverished temporally cannot blossom spiritually.
— Keith B. McMullin
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What I think is different today is the lack of political connection between the black middle class and the increasing numbers of black people who…
— Angela Davis
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Many scientists have been drawn to Buddhism out of a sense that the Western tradition has delivered an impoverished conception of basic, human sanity. In…
— Sam Harris
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When we see people that are impoverished and people who are dealt an unfair hand, then if we have the power to help them, we…
— John Legend
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If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished.
— Richard M. Nixon
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However my parents - both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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'Nobody goes to jail.' This is the mantra of the financial-crisis era, one that saw virtually every major bank and financial company on Wall Street…
— Matt Taibbi
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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be…
— Frank Lloyd Wright
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