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I looked around at what my colleagues were doing, and asked myself, 'What relationship has it with what's going on?' I found there was a… — Martin Parr
On the most elementary level, you do not have to go to church to be a Christian. You do not have to go home to… — R. Kent Hughes
We have to grasp, as Marx and Adam Smith did, that corporations are not concerned with the common good. They exploit, pollute, impoverish, repress, kill,… — Chris Hedges
They [Harvard academia] liked the poor, but didn't like the smell of the poor. — Chris Hedges
The man who enters combat encased in solid armor plate, but lacking the essential of selfconfidence, is far more exposed and naked to death than… — Robert S. Johnson
The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are. — Mark Twain
If you were a poor Indian with no weapons, and a bunch of conquistadors came up to you and asked where the gold was, I… — Jack Handey
If I ever get rich, I hope I'm not real mean to poor people, like I am now. — Jack Handey
When I was a kid we were so poor, if I hadn't been a boy I wouldn't have had anything to play with. — Rodney Dangerfield
...it is seldom indeed that a composition which was poor when the picture was taken can be improved by reshaping it in the dark room. — Henri Cartier-Bresson
A poor photographer meets chance one out of a hundred times and a good photographer meets chance all the time. — Brassai
Charity wins awards and applause, but joining the poor gets you killed.Â People do not get crucified for charity.Â People are crucified for living out… — Shane Claiborne
There are two kinds of peacemakers in the modern world; and they are both, though in various ways, a nuisance. The first peacemaker is the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
While Haiti has recently celebrated more than 200 years of independence from French colonial rule, the citizens of the island remain vulnerable to poverty, poor… — Eliot Engel
The life of a journalist is poor, nasty, brutish, and short. So is his style — Stella Gibbons
For, contrary to the common opinion, it is the wealthy who are greedy of wealth; while the populace are to be gained by talking to… — Arthur Machen
In a system of free trade and free markets poor countries - and poor people - are not poor because others are rich. Indeed, if… — Margaret Thatcher
Everybody faces obstacles. And I looked to people who had been through many to succeed in life. Abraham Lincoln, born to a poor family, faced… — Dave Winfield
The energy produced by the breaking down of the atom is a very poor kind of thing. Anyone who expects a source of power from… — Ernest Rutherford
We want to achieve a new and better order of society: in this new and better society there must be neither rich nor poor; all… — Vladimir Lenin

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