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If you don't want your tax dollars to help the poor, then stop saying that you want a country based on Christian values. Because you… — Jimmy Carter
I could see the road ahead of me. I was poor and I was going to stay poor. But I didn't particularly want money. I… — Charles Bukowski
I love my poor earth because I have seen no other. — Osip Mandelstam
I'm not a Republican because I grew up rich, but because I didn't want to spend the rest of my life poor, waiting for the… — Mike Huckabee
Too rich to be relevant to the world's poor, [Europe] attracts immigration but cannot encourage imitation. Too passive regarding international security. Too self-satisfied, it acts… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
After all, the rich get richer and the poor get children. Which is okay so long as lots of them starve in infancy. — John Brunner
Therefore, in order not to have to rob his subjects, to be able to defend himself, not to become poor and contemptible, and not to… — Niccolo Machiavelli
The problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth, so that the ties of brotherhood may still bind together the rich and poor… — Andrew Carnegie
Let the good work go on. We must ever remember we are refining oil for the poor man and he must have it cheap and… — John D. Rockefeller
Smug respectability, like the poor, we've had with us always. Today, however, ... such obtuseness is an indulgence we can no longer afford. The computer,… — Studs Terkel
Iqbal, that great poet, was so right. The moment you recognize what is beautiful in this world, you stop being a slave. To hell with… — Aravind Adiga
People say 'Poor guy.' That insults me. I despise sympathy. So I screwed up. I made some mistakes. 'Poor guy,' like I'm some victim. There's… — Mike Tyson
I would only spend a week or two in the Philippines, most probably the week during my birthday because I am planning to give away… — Manny Pacquiao
My poor head is in such a whirl, my mind is all in bits. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
History will judge societies and governments — and their institutions — not by how big they are or how well they serve the rich and… — Cesar Chavez
People of poor character tend to blame their choices on circumstances. Ethical people make good choices regardless of circumstances. If they make enough good choices,… — John C. Maxwell
I can connect with peoples' pain because I was 'po' before I was 'poor'. — Herman Cain
It is better to allow our lives to speak for us than our words. God did not bear the cross only two thousand years ago.… — Mahatma Gandhi
This is the gist of all worship: to be pure and to do good to others. He who sees Shiva in the poor, in the… — Swami Vivekananda
Do not stand on a high pedestal and take 5 cents in your hand and say, here, my poor man, but be grateful that the… — Swami Vivekananda
Tremendous purity, tremendous renunciation, is the one secret of spirituality. “Neither through wealth, nor through progeny, but through renunciation alone is immortality to be reached,”… — Swami Vivekananda
O poor, unthinking human heart! Error will not go away, logic and reason are slow to penetrate.We cling with both arms to false hope, refusing… — Rabindranath Tagore
Nothing is more deflating to morale than to have a poor outcome pinned on someone who doesn't deserve it. It lacks integrity and overvalues the… — Tony Dungy
It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich. — Frank Herbert
Rich people will travel great distances to look at poor people.... — David Byrne

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