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One of the most destructive forces in the world is love. For the following reason: The world is a conglomeration of objects, no, of events… — Kathy Acker
An economy growing at 7 percent per year, can and must find the resources to improve the lives of its millions of poor. — Sonia Gandhi
The lifestyle of many of our colleagues has been very pompous. They conduct weddings and birthdays in such an ostentatious manner that it pains me… — Sonia Gandhi
The Gods sell when they give. Glory is paid for with disgrace. Poor are the happy, for they are Just what passes. — Fernando Pessoa
Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their slums. — Imelda Marcos
I should be judged as a captain who went from Spain to the Indies to conquer a people numerous and warlike, whose manners and religion… — Christopher Columbus
The well adjusted make poor prophets. A pleasant existence blinds us to the possibilities of drastic change. We cling to what we call our common… — Eric Hoffer
Self-confidence is apt to address itself to an imaginary dullness in others; as people who are well off speak in a cajoling tone to the… — George Eliot
With his continual doctrine [Bishop Hooper] adjoined due and discreet correction, not so much severe to any as to them which for abundance of riches… — John Foxe
Humanity looks upon Jesus the Nazarene as a poor-born Who suffered misery and humiliation with all of the weak. And He is pitied, for Humanity… — Khalil Gibran
How white are the fair robes of Charity as she walketh amid the lowly habitations of the poor! — Hosea Ballou
In Utopia, where every man has a right to everything, they all know that if care is taken to keep the public stores full, no… — Thomas More
The next thing I wrote was in a writing class at night school. It was about a poor woman who worked at a dime store… — Beth Henley
As my poor father used to say In 1963, Once people start on all this Art Goodbye, moralitee! And what my father used to say… — A. P. Herbert
Liberals believe that crime is inextricably linked with poverty. In reality, most poor people never resort to crime, and some wealthy people commit evil acts… — Rush Limbaugh
Liberals state that many teenagers would rather sell crack for $100 an hour than to flip hamburgers for a minimum wage. Using the same liberal… — Rush Limbaugh
Poor people know poor people, and rich people know rich people. It is one of the few things La Rochefoucauld did not say, but then… — Moss Hart
Beauty itself soon fades, and when a woman has beauty and nothing else, well, it's like putting all the goods in the shop window, isn't… — Henry Arthur Jones
'Oh, poor, poor fellow!' said Mrs. Elliot with a remorse that was sincere, though her congratulations would not have been. — E. M. Forster
Although our love is waning, let us stand by the lone border of the lake once more, together in that hour of gentleness. When the… — William Butler Yeats

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