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Nowadays there is more dynamism in chess, modern players like to take the initiative. Usually they are poor defenders though.
Since the Church is to be servant to the poor, it is our fault if that wealth is not channeled to help the poor in our world.
It has always been more expensive for the poor to borrow money. We see this in everything from mortgage rates to credit cards.
Give and you shall receive, much more that you ever thought possible. Give and give again. People who give will never be poor!
There is no being so poor and so contemptible, who does not think there is somebody still poorer, and still more contemptible.
Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.
HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man? DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me.
The poor have very few hours in which to enjoy themselves; they must take their pleasure raw; they haven't the time to cook it.
For a man without hobbies, I stand in a wonderful spot, where what I do is my best hobby, and everything else is a poor second.
I cannot rest, I must draw, however poor the result, and when I have a bad time come over me it is a stronger desire than ever.
We no longer live in a world that is neatly divided between rich and well-educated countries, and poor and badly-educated ones.
Now, just a word about the poor Negroes... They're here. They've got to be cared for... The poor Negroes have got to live, too.
Be close to the poor and to those in need, so as to touch in their flesh the wounded flesh of Jesus. Please, draw near to them!
But so many books thou readest, But so many schemes thou breedest, But so many wishes feedest, That thy poor head almost turns.
If you have nothing but compassion, you are still very wealthy; if you have everything but compassion, you are still very poor!
Doom very evenly! Do not doom one doom to the rich; another to the poor! Nor doom one doom to your friend; another to your foe!
I pray as follows: May justice reign, may the laws not be broken, may the wise men be poor, and the poor men rich, without sin.
Shall I tell you of their plundering, their covetousness, their abandonment of the poor, their thefts, their cheating in trade?
What did Nabokov and Joyce have in common, apart from the poor teeth and the great prose? Exile, and decades of near pauperism.
I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.
I love nice things - I consider Ralph Lauren sheets to be a necessity, not a luxury - but I've known what it's like to be poor.
If you go back in American history, oysters were the food of poor people. New York was filled with oyster saloons in the 1800s.
Poverty, therefore, was comparative. One measured it by a sliding scale. One was always poor, in terms of those who were richer.
My boy, the 'quenelles de sole' were splendid, but the peas were poor. You should shake the pan gently, all the time, like this.
Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!
You know we poor artists have to show ourselves in society from time to time, just to remind the public that we are not savages.
People talk about places like Mumbai as a tale of two cities, as if the rich and poor don't have anything to do with each other.
When someone brutally kills someone else, we call him "animalistic." But we consider ourselves "human" when we give to the poor.
Capitalism has shortfalls. It doesn't necessarily take care of the poor, and it underfunds innovation, so we have to offset that.
Poverty can lead to tyranny. Capitolism creates freedom. If the poor had a better image of the rich they could be just like them.
Opulent, civilized, and industrious nations, are greater consumers than poor ones, because they are infinitely greater producers.
Shun, as you would the plague, a cleric who from being poor has become wealthy, or who, from being nobody has become a celebrity.
If we ever have children and they become climbers I'll tell them, Stay away from expeditions. They'll make you poor and neurotic.
If a man is indolent, let him be poor. If he is drunken, let him be poor.... Also--somewhat inconsistently--blessed are the poor!
To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.
I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.
The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.
He mocks the people who proposes that the government shall protect the rich and that they in turn will care for the laboring poor.
You know I have loved him always. But we are very poor. Who, being loved, is poor? Oh, no one. I hate my riches. They are a burden.
We've done a very poor job at really reflecting on our legacy of racial inequality... You see it in the South, but it's everywhere.
That's is life. You move and change according to things that happen to you and things that you make happen because of poor choices.
To be rich you have to know what it is to be poor. Getting financially literate is part of the price you have to pay to become rich
I barely have time for my own children. To adopt more children and not have time for them, that would be poor parenting on my part.
Not to share one’s goods with the poor is to rob them and to deprive them of life. It is not our goods that we possess, but theirs.
They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody?
I was from very poor people: 11 of us in a two-bedroom apartment in Brooklyn. I wanted the large houses, the cars, jets, and yacht.
[After a poor prognosis for recovery from her doctor following her 1990 bus accident] I said if it is up to me, I'm going to be OK.
In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.
Nationalism makes us poor because its Siamese twin, protectionism, will destroy the internal market and disrupt international trade.
Dependency arguments often come from elites - either aid agencies or governments - and say something about attitudes to poor people.