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• Certainly it is important to work hard for your children, but if the only legacy you can give them is money it is a poor legacy indeed.

  Helen Beardsley

  Children, Hard Work, Giving

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• Avoid debt that doesn’t pay you. Make it a rule that you never use debt that won’t make you money. I borrowed money for a car only because I knew it could increase my income. Rich people use debt to leverage investments and grow cash flows. Poor people use debt to buy things that make rich people richer.

  Grant Cardone

  Cash Flow, People, Car

  "How to become a millionaire by age 30" by Grant Cardone, www.businessinsider.com. November 13, 2014.

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• By... [selecting] the youths of genius from among the classes of the poor, we hope to avail the State of those talents which nature has sown as liberally among the poor as the rich, but which perish without use if not sought for and cultivated.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Class, Genius, Use

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private : Published by the Order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the Original Manuscripts, Deposited in the Department of State”, p.390

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• A poor girl may have an illusion that a prince will come and fetch her home. It is possible, some such cases have occurred. That the Messiah will come and found a golden age is much less probable.

  Sigmund Freud

  Girl, Home, Age

  SIGMUND FREUD “THE FUTURE OF AN ILLUSION”

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• It's hard being black. You ever been black? I was black once - when I was poor.

  Larry Holmes

  Black, Hard

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• I'm getting very sorry for the Devil and his disciples such as the good Le Chiffre. The devil has a rotten time and I always like to be on the side of the underdog. We don't give the poor chap a chance...the Devil had no prophets to write his Ten Commandments and no team of authors to write his biography.

  Ian Fleming

  Sorry, Team, Writing

  "Casino Royale". Book by Ian Fleming, ch. 20: The Nature Of Evil, 1953.

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• Yet I pity the poor wretch, though he's my enemy. He's yoked to an evil delusion, but the same fate could be mine. I see clearly: we who live are all phantoms, fleeing shadows.

  Sophocles

  Fate, Evil, Enemy

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• I grew up poor in crappy situations various crappy situations. What kept me sane was reading and music. I had so many different literary tastes growing up, be it fiction like Stephen King or Piers Anthony or non-fiction like reading Hunter S. Thompson essays or reading the Beats. I was a huge fan of the Beat movement.

  Corey Taylor

  Kings, Growing Up, Reading

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I have had the opportunity to become acquainted with many wonderful people from many walks of life. I have known rich and poor, famous and modest, wise and otherwise.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Wise, Opportunity, People

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• My mother bought me a brand new suit for going away to college. We were poor, but she wanted me to have that. It was a powder blue suit with peg pants - you know, skinny at the bottom. I think I made quite an impression with that.

  Tom Heinsohn

  Mother, College, Thinking

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• The result of neo-colonialism is that foreign capital is used for the exploitation rather than for the development of the less developed parts of the world. Investment under neo-colonialism increases rather than decreases the gap between the rich and poor countries of the world.

  Kwame Nkrumah

  Country, Countries Of The World, Colonialism

  Kwame Nkrumah (1965). “Neo-colonialism: the last stage of imperialism”, Nelson

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• 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.

  Oscar Wilde

  Artist, Savages, Shows

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.11, Xist Publishing

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• No matter what is happening in life or in the world - war, natural disaster, poor health, pain, the death of loved ones - if existence is filled with art, music and literature, life will be fulfilling, a joy.

  Karen DeCrow

  Art, Pain, War

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• I didn't get bullied any more than anybody else. I think I got bullied more for being poor than being gay. But no more than any other kid. And I'm sure that I did my fair share of picking on other kids, too. We're all humans.

  Brandi Carlile

  Kids, Gay, Thinking

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• And yet the world we live in-its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor, its seemingly inexplicable outbursts of violence-is shaped far less by what we celebrate and mythologize than by the painful events we try to forget. Leopold's Congo is but one of those silences of history.

  Adam Hochschild

  Silence, Trying, Events

  Adam Hochschild (2011). “King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa”, p.356, Pan Macmillan

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• I'm really very embarrassed about my guitar playing, in one way, because it's very poor. I can never move but I can make a guitar speak.

  John Lennon

  Moving, Guitar, Way

  Jann Wenner, John Lennon (2001). “Lennon Remembers”, p.21, Verso

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• One day, I went to a soba restaurant outside town, and while I was waiting for the zarusoba I opened an old graph magazine. There was a picture of an exhausted, lonely kneeling woman who wore a checked patterned yukata after the tradegy of a large earthquake. With the intensity of my chest ready to burn up, I fell in love with that poor woman. I also felt a horrifying desire for her. Maybe tragedy and desire are back to back to one another.

  Osamu Dazai

  Lonely, Earthquakes, Waiting

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• I believe in the Democratic party, and their philosophy and what they stand for - for the poor people.

  Dikembe Mutombo

  Philosophy, Party, Believe

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• The gap between the rich and the poor is wider in the United States than it is in any of the other industrialized nations.

  Gerald Celente

  United States, Gaps, Rich

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• I've always stood on one fact - that all over the world, there are only two things, the Establishment and the poor people. The poor people are a massive majority and across the world they are exploited in different kinds of ways. The Establishment depends on exploiting raw materials and the poor.

  Hugh Masekela

  Two, People, Majority

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• I was from a poor Jewish family in the South Bronx. My father was a plumber, but when I was 16, he got sick and I had to take over. Being a plumber in the South Bronx wasn't fun.

  Leonard Susskind

  Fun, Father, Sick

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• Unquestionably, however, something else is at work, something that cuts deeper into the American psyche. We have a profound hatred of the weak and the poor, and a corresponding groveling terror before the rich and successful, and we're building a bureaucracy to match those feelings.

  Matt Taibbi

  Cutting, Successful, Profound

  Matt Taibbi (2014). “The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap”, p.13, Spiegel & Grau

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• I feel it's part of my job to make the problems of the poor compelling.

  Paul Farmer

  Jobs, Problem, Feels

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• They say that art comes from the soul. The more drama in an artist's life, the more he can draw on for his art. Van Gogh and Picasso had troubled souls, but poor Steve Kaufman has been shot once, stabbed 3 times - all by women. That is a lot of drama for great art.

  Robin Leach

  Art, Drama, Soul

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• I am from the working class. I am now what I was then. No amount of balsamic vinegar and Prada handbags could make me forget what it was like to be poor.

  Sue Townsend

  Class, Handbags, Vinegar

  "I didn't know what Adrian Mole looked like - well, not until I saw John Major on the telly". Interview with Alex Clark, www.theguardian.com. November 6, 2009.

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