Best Poorest Lines
215 Poorest quotes by 169 unique authors
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The role of the writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say. Most of the writing…
— Anais Nin
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The poorest of the sex have still an itch To know their fortunes, equal to the rich. The dairy-maid inquires, if she shall take The…
— John Dryden
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That is not enough. Sport has been great for me, a great learning place that if you want to achieve you can, even if you…
— Haile Gebrselassie
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I see drawings and pictures in the poorest of huts and the dirtiest of corners.
— Vincent Van Gogh
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Women do two thirds of the world's work. Yet they earn only one tenth of the world's income and own less than one percent of…
— Barber Conable
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Children under five are the poorest age group in America, and one in four infants, toddlers and preschoolers are poor during the years of greatest…
— Marian Wright Edelman
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The poorest parts of the world are by and large the places in which one can best view the worst of medicine and not because…
— Paul Farmer
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We've taken on the major health problems of the poorest - tuberculosis, maternal mortality, AIDS, malaria - in four countries. We've scored some victories in…
— Paul Farmer
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But for the children of the poorest people we're stripping the curriculum, removing the arts and music, and drilling the children into useful labor. We're…
— Jonathan Kozol
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You need massive recruitment to tell the poorest of the poor what is possible.
— Jonathan Kozol
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The contrasts between what is spent today to educate a child in the poorest New York City neighborhoods, where teacher salaries are often even lower…
— Jonathan Kozol
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The first ten, twelve or fifteen years of life are excavated of inherent moral worth in order to accommodate a regimen of basic training for…
— Jonathan Kozol
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We continue to blame the poor for their own condition. They are lazy. We do not want to know that the poorest of the poor…
— Madeleine M. Kunin
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Well, my view before was a Western view, and I certainly understand marriage equality and civil rights, equal rights for all, but having visited developing…
— Jason Mraz
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Well when I was young, actually not just me, but we were all poor. Korea used to be one of the poorest countries in the…
— Lee Myung-bak
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The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to…
— Ramakrishna
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A system that was originally designed to support the poorest in society is now trapping them in the very condition it was supposed to alleviate.
— Iain Duncan Smith
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Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain…
— Thomas Sowell
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What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest.
— Andy Warhol
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The poorest people are the sweetest people.
— Denzel Washington
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I founded Grameen Bank to provide loans to those considered traditionally unbankable. Grameen Bank works with the poorest and often illiterate, providing uncollateralized micro-loans for…
— Muhammad Yunus
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Haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphere; some say the poorest in the world.
— Helen Fisher
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You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve," said Aslan. "And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest…
— C.S. Lewis
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From the sun did I learn this, when it goeth down, the exuberant one: gold doth it then pour into the sea, out of inexhaustible…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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What if I should discover that the poorest of the beggars and the most impudent of offenders are all within me; and that I stand…
— Carl Jung
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