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Ah! my poor brain is racked and crazed, My spirit and senses amazed! — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I never see where the separation… — Virginia Woolf
The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for… — Moliere
Do not romanticize the poor...We are all people, human beings subject to the same temptations and faults as all others. Our poverty damages our dignity. — Cesar Chavez
We shall strike. We shall organize boycotts. We shall demonstrate and have political campaigns. We shall pursue the revolution we have proposed. We are sons… — Cesar Chavez
Money is not going to organize the disadvantaged, the powerless, or the poor. We need other weapons. That's why the War on Poverty is such… — Cesar Chavez
"The life of the union depends upon more people getting to share the limelight, because with the limelight also comes responsibility and with the responsibility… — Cesar Chavez
Jesus' life and words are a challenge at the same time that they are Good News. They are a challenge to those of us who… — Cesar Chavez
Until the chance for political participation is there, we who are poor will continue to attack the soft part of the American system - its… — Cesar Chavez
The poor, you know, have a way of solving problems...they have a tremendous capacity for suffering. And so when you build a vehicle to get… — Cesar Chavez
Our struggle is not easy. Those who oppose our cause are rich and powerful and they have many allies in high places. We are poor.… — Cesar Chavez
Rich men are to bear the infirmities of the poor, and wise are to bear the mistakes of the ignorant. — Henry Ward Beecher
Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
[The papists] ought to have sympathy with us weak, poor Christians, and not condemn us or make fun of us because we are learning so… — Martin Luther
A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor. — Alexander Smith
The man with a clear conscience probably has a poor memory. — Oscar Wilde
Be rich for yourself and poor to your friends. — Juvenal
You and I possess manifold ideal bonds in the interests we share; but each of us has his poor body and his irremediable, incommunicable dreams. — George Santayana
The poor ego has a still harder time of it; it has to serve three harsh masters, and it has to do its best to… — Sigmund Freud
A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of non pertinent correspondence, an odious approximation, a haunting conscience, a preposterous shadow,… — Charles Lamb
Historians will come to their own judgments about President Kennedy. Here is how I choose to remember him. He was an heir to wealth who… — Edward Kennedy
You bear God within you, poor wretch, and know it not. — Epictetus
The success of a close friend is often wounding, especially if he has been poor for so long. — Tom Baker
Everything depends on attitude. We are ambitious or lazy, enthusiastic or dull, loyal or undependable, according to our attitude. We get good grades or poor… — Sterling W Sill
It would help the poor people who need jobs. Minimum wage is a mandate. We're against mandates so why should we have it? It would… — Ron Paul

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