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• Sanctions always hurt the poor, the weak, the children.

  Brian Harold May

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Hurt, Poor

• I board with a poor Scotchman: his wife can talk scarce any English.

  David Brainerd

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• It is a good deed to forget a poor joke.

  Brendan Behan

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  Tags in Poor, Forget

• My father came from a very poor background, but I was very fortunate in the sense that we were never in need. My dad was determined to make sure that we didn’t want for things. He wanted to give us more opportunity than he had, a better shot at a better life.

  Brad Pitt

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• Nowadays there is more dynamism in chess, modern players like to take the initiative. Usually they are poor defenders though.

  Boris Spassky

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  Tags in Poor, Modern

• If you’re poor and you do something stupid, you’re nuts. If you’re rich and do something stupid, you’re eccentric.

  Bobby Heenan

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• We’ve got to take care of the poor.

  Bob Riley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Poor, Care

• I don’t think anyone sets out to malign poor people but certainly that’s what we do through organizations such as the World Trade Organization, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.

  Bob Geldof

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Poor

• In the end, we may be hurting the very people we should be concerned about – the inner-city poor, those who already have to live with many risks in their daily lives, those who do not have clout here in Washington.

  Freddie Dalton Thompson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Concerned, Poor

• Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.

  C. Northcote Parkinson

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  Tags in Government, Rich, Poor

• The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still.

  Billy Sunday

  Topics in Money

  Tags in Poor

• Above all things, I must not get angry. If I do get angry I knock all the teeth out of the mouth of the poor wretch who has angered me.

  Franz Peter Schubert

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Things, Angry, Poor

• I have the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain.

  Ian Somerhalder

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  Tags in Brain, Poor, Attention

• The poor tread lightest on the earth. The higher our income, the more resources we control and the more havoc we wreak.

  Paul Harrison

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  Tags in Poor, Control, Earth

• It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.

  Franklin Patrick Herbert Jr.

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  Tags in Poor, Discontented

• It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.

  Bill Vaughan

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• Surely our inaction with respect to Syria is a poor precedent if we’re fighting a war on terror.

  Bill Kristol

  Topics in Respect

  Tags in Poor

• The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important.

  Bill Gates

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  Tags in Idea, Poor

• I’ve been poor and I’ve been rich, and rich is better.

  Bessie Smith

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• Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.

  Benjamin N. Cardozo

  Topics in Experience

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