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If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven.
Judging others’ intentions is the right of God alone. We don’t have this right, and it is poor manners with God.
I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health.
No one can prevent hurricanes, but prosperous communities are much better able to withstand them than poor ones.
Politicians will not put forth programs aimed at the problems of poor blacks while their turnout remains so low.
Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.
Poor firms ignore their competitors; average firms copy their competitors; winning firms lead their competitors.
Good pitchers, after a tough outing, bounce back. Real good pitchers don't let too many poor games get in there.
I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then.
A million million spermatozoa, All of them alive: Out of their cataclysm but one poor Noah Dare hope to survive.
You know, when you're poor and you have a bunch of kids in your family, you don't know that everybody's not poor.
We live in a nation that spent centuries denying the right to vote to the poor, to women, and to people of color.
The food industry profits from providing poor quality foods with poor nutritional value that people eat a lot of.
Unless the poor of the world agitate for themselves to be heard, there will be no changes in their circumstances.
The Gods sell when they give. Glory is paid for with disgrace. Poor are the happy, for they are Just what passes.
As usual, in every scheme that worsens the position of the poor, it is the poor who are invoked as beneficiaries.
The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.
I believed, when I entered this convent, I was escaping from myself, but alas, poor me, I brought myself with me!
Poor is a state of mind. Broke is a state of wallet. You can fix being broke; it's not so easy to fix being poor.
We should put more money in health. We should put more money in devising credible social safety nets for the poor.
If you're poor and you do something stupid, you're nuts. If you're rich and do something stupid, you're eccentric.
Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it.
The Court today holds the Congress may say that some of the poor are too poor even to go bankrupt. I cannot agree.
I don't know of a single economist who disagrees that when you raise the minimum wage, you kill jobs for the poor.
If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.
Like most people raised on American movies, I have poor access to my emotions, but can banter like a motherfucker.
The differences in income between the poor world and the rich world are so great that people have to be interested.
Poverty is not dishonorable in itself, but only when it comes from idleness, intemperance, extravagance, and folly.
Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.
These poor kids in Baghdad have no running water, no showers. They wipe with baby wipes. My heart goes out to them.
Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts.
Your men are brave men, And you have won. I can live with that, Earl of Bronze a poor man would I be if I could not.
No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
The difference between the rich and the poor is that the rich have learned to recognize the value of their thoughts.
Can you suppose there's any harm in looking as cheerful and being as cheerful as our poor circumstances will permit?
The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead.
We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.
He that offereth sacrifice of the goods of the poor is as one that sacrificeth the son in the presence of his father.
The poor homosexuals -- they have declared war upon nature, and now nature is extracting an awful retribution (AIDS).
I was raised by my grandmother on a farm, where we were really poor - we had dirt floors - but so did everybody else.
I have the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain.
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.
I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.
Sports fans have been mistreated for a long time. They have overpaid for inferior food and they have had poor service.
Who fathoms the Eternal Thought? Who talks of scheme and plan? The Lord is God! He needeth not The poor device of man.
You see what a poor sinner I am, and how unworthy to possess what was given me; for that reason it has been taken away.
It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher.
True, the free market ignores the poor precisely as it does not recognize the wealthy - it is 'no respecter of persons'
I don't think that the Scots are happy to drift into Britain becoming the poorest of the poor, sub-American 51st state.