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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. People do not get crucified for charity. People are crucified for living out a love… — 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
The poor folk gladly came to me, for I did them no unkindness, but helped them as much as I could. — Joan of Arc
Oh, poor me (jokingly, after being told that Randy Johnson & Pedro Martinez would make more in 2003 than he would). What do I do… — Greg Maddux
Look at your body— A painted puppet, a poor toy Of jointed parts ready to collapse, A diseased and suffering thing With a head full… — Thomas Ligotti
Barring extreme physical and mental disabilities, each and every one of us is where we are today -- be it poor or wealthy, happy or… — Neal Boortz
A few men own from ten thousand to two hundred thousand acres each. The poor Laborer can find no resting place, save on the barren… — Denis Kearney
Which, I wonder, brother reader, is the better lot, to die prosperous and famous, or poor and disappointed? To have, and to be forced to… — William Makepeace Thackeray
The rich don't exploit the poor. They just out-compete them. — David Brooks
I believe we ought to subsidize some health care for the poor, but Medicare subsidizes everyone's health care — James Q. Wilson
The most wonderful street in the universe is Broadway. It is a world within itself. High and low, rich and poor, pass along at a… — Frank Rich
Abortion politics have distracted all sides from what is really essential: a major aid campaign to improve midwifery, prenatal care and emergency obstetric services in… — Nicholas D. Kristof
Neither Western donor countries like the U.S. nor poor recipients like Cameroon care much about Africans who are poor, rural and female — Nicholas D. Kristof
I think we can end the divisions within the United States. What I think is quite clear is that we can work together in the… — Robert Kennedy
I’m concerned about the fact there seems to be a war on the poor - that if you’re poor, somehow you’re shiftless and lazy. — John Kasich
Rent control has in certain Western countries constituted, maybe, the worst example of poor planning by Governments lacking courage and vision. — Gunnar Myrdal
I told my girls, 'Look at Rihanna: She's one of the biggest pop stars in the world. She's really famous, really powerful, really rich. Yet… — Caitlin Moran

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