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Human beings seem to be a poor invention. If they are the noblest works of God where is the ignoblest?
The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.
If you're from a poor background, you have to work even harder. But that's what makes you who you are.
I went to the bank and proposed that they lend money to the poor people. The bankers almost fell over.
God will take care of the poor trampled slave, but where will the slaveholder be when eternity begins?
When in doubt, parenthesize. At the very least it will let some poor schmuck bounce on the % key in vi.
As long as we have a poor country bordering California, it's going to be very difficult to win strikes.
Abused And neglected children have paid the price for liberalism's tendency to sentimentalize the poor.
Let's face it, the Obama administration was handed a pretty poor deal from the previous administration.
I am the poet of the poor, because I was poor when I loved; since I could not give gifts, I gave words.
The rich, by unfair combinations, contribute frequently to prolong a season of distress among the poor.
Today it is fashionable to talk about the poor. Unfortunately, it is not fashionable to talk with them.
The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.
My mother was the daughter of a poor schoolteacher - well, that's a tautology - a country schoolteacher.
Democrats don't resent the rich on behalf of the poor. They resent the rich on behalf of the government.
What women would do if they could not cry, nobody knows. What poor, defenceless creatures they would be!
Laissez Faire was very good sauce for the goose, labor, but was very poor sauce for the gander, capital.
The middle of the road is a poor place to walk. It is a poor place to drive. It is a poor place to live.
Everyone but an idiot knows that the lower classes must be kept poor, or they will never be industrious.
To say to a rich man: You are poor! is to tell the Archbishop of Granada that his sermons are worthless.
I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.
The Gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor.
Why O why did I ever leave my hobbit-hole?" said poor Mr. Baggins, bumping up and down on Bombur's back.
Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us.
Poor people are those who only work to try to keep an expensive lifestyle and always want more and more.
He is not poor who has the use of necessary things. [Lat., Pauper enim non est cui rerum suppetet usus.]
If we owned the property, we will be free and prosperous. If so they regain control, we will become poor
Whene'er I take my walks abroad,How many poor I see!What shall I render to my GodFor all his gifts to me?
But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?
The poor pay more, and that's one of the reasons people get trapped at the bottom of the economic ladder.
Its easy to have principles when you're rich. The important thing is to have principles when you're poor.
None are so poor that they have nothing to give...and none are so rich that they have nothing to receive.
I would have become a pilot if it wasn't for my poor eyesight and the fact that I am hopeless in science.
Love and trust and justice, concern for the poor, that's being pushed to the margins, and you can see it.
I'm hostile to men, I'm hostile to women, I'm hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I'm afraid of horses.
The 'working poor,' as they are approvingly termed, are in fact the major philanthropists of our society.
If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
I will continue to find ways to help poor people find a job, get a job, and learn someday to own the job.
I have to address the economic conditions of everybody, including, and perhaps first, those who are poor.
The poor is the center of the Gospel. If we take out the poor, we cannot understand the message of Christ
I think Morse's thing about being a poor policeman but a good detective is a very good description of him.
Keep a goverment poor and weak and it's your servant; when it is rich and powerful it becomes your master.
Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low.
Saying the Tech Bloom is not commercially driven is like saying Mother Teresa had an interest in the poor.
The way to turn our economy around is not by making rich people poorer, it's by making poor people richer.
Women's Lib? Poor little things. They always look so unhappy. Have you noticed how bitter their faces are?
Many poor and low-income women cannot afford to purchase contraceptive services and supplies on their own.
Beef also was difficult to be procured and exceedingly poor; the price nearly sixpence farthing per pound.
I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that he cannot have a chicken in his pot every Sunday.
At the moment, we don't deserve international cricket in our country. The security situation is poor here.