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• What the gods keep for the poor, no man can destroy.

  Topics in African Proverbs, God

  Tags in Poor

• I’ll always be American in my world view and allegiance. American in the naive way I go to other countries and tell them how they should treat their poor or clean their water.

  Eddie Huang

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Allegiance, Poor

• I have very poor eyesight, and I can’t imagine a world without my glasses or contacts.

  Ellen Hollman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Glasses, Poor

• Poor Harper Seven Beckham, having to live with that name all her life. It’s the Boy Named Sue syndrome; at the very least it will toughen her up.

  Simon Hoggart

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Sue, Poor

• And we’re in the middle of a ‘perfect storm.’ These days, government social services are being bad-mouthed and defunded. The non-profit world is looking more and more like the for-profit world. The growing gap between rich and poor makes most of us very anxious about where we stand.

  Arlie Russell Hochschild

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Poor, Nonprofit

• It’s not hard to marginalize people when they’ve already done it to themselves.

  Seanan McGuire

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Poor

• It is increasingly rare for many of us…to believe that people can be poor, but honest, poor but deserving of respect. Poverty is no longer blamed on anyone but the poor themselves. Contempt for the poor has become a virtue.

  John Joseph O'Connor

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Poor

• I am more poor than you think.

  Frederik Meijer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Poor

• A poor surgeon hurts one person at a time. A poor teacher hurts 30.

  Ernest L. Boyer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Person, Poor

• The poor aren’t defeated. We’re domesticated.

  Victor LaValle

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  Tags in Poor

• Poor lawyers, like poor paintings, are dear at any price.

  James Whistler

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Poor

• Live and think like a poor man and you’ll always be OK.

  Gene Simmons

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Live, Poor

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

  Ian Somerhalder

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Brain, Poor, Attention

• Though there are many differences between Barack Obama and Jimmy Carter, they are strikingly similar in their poor economic records and even more so in their shared pessimism and bearishness on America.

  David Limbaugh

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• If you are poor, you are not likely to live long.

  Nelson Mandela

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Live, Long, Poor

• I’d seen my father. He was a poor man, and I watched him do astonishing things.

  Sidney Poitier

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Poor, Man

• When people get at each other’s throat, the rich and the poor and the Left and the Right and so on, and you have a basic breakdown, that becomes very threatening.

  Ray Dalio

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Rich, Poor, Left

• 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

• 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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  Tags in Poor

• The first thing to recognize not just about Afghanistan but about any poor undeveloped country is that as big as it looks on the map, it’s much bigger when you’re there.

  Robert D. Kaplan

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Big, Poor