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• public work brings a vicarious but assured sense of immortality. We may be poor, weak, timid, in debt to our landlady, bullied by our nieces, stiff in the joints, shortsighted and distressed; we shall perish, but the cause endures; the cause is great.

  Winifred Holtby

  Niece, Debt, May

  Winifred Holtby (1937). “Pavements at Anderby: tales of "South riding" and other regions by Winifred Holtby”

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• There's no future in being poor.

  Robert Shaw

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• If woman's sole responsibility is of the domestic type, one class will be crushed by it, and the other throw it off as a badge of poverty. The poor man's motto, 'Woman's work is never done,' leads inevitably to its antithesis - ladies' work is never begun.

  Antoinette Brown Blackwell

  Responsibility, Men, Class

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• Poverty, the existence of the poor, was the first cause of riches.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Firsts, Causes, Riches

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• In the poor we meet Jesus in his most distressing disguises.

  Mother Teresa

  Jesus, Disguise, Distressing

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• What I believe unites the people of this nation, regardless of race or region or party, young or old, rich or poor, is the simple, profound belief in opportunity for all - the notion that if you work hard and take responsibility, you can get ahead.

  Barack Obama

  Party, Believe, Responsibility

  Fifth Presidential State of the Union, delivered 28 January 2014

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• In small space a player has to be capable of acting quickly. A good player who needs too much time can suddenly become a poor player.

  Johan Cruijff

  Player, Space, Acting

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• Think not you are charitable if the love of Jesus and His brethren be not purely the motive of your gifts. Alas! you might not give your superfluities, but "bestow all your goods to feed the poor;" you might even "give your body to be burned" for them, and yet be utterly destitute of charity, if self-seeking, self-pleasing or self-ends guide you; and guide you they must, until the love of God be by the Holy Ghost shed abroad in your heart.

  Hugh Reginald Haweis

  Jesus, Heart, Thinking

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• All the great Shakespeare plays are about killing. Alas, poor Yorick, that's about death. And in Romeo and Juliet everyone up ends up dying. The greatest dramas in the world are all about sex, violence and death.

  Ray Winstone

  Sex, Drama, Play

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I once dressed up, very badly timed as Steve Irwin's daughter. And I didn't realize he had passed because I hadn't been following the news. I love Bindi Irwin, just the timing was in poor taste.

  Alysia Reiner

  Daughter, News, Taste

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• I grew up as a fairly poor kid in, you know, Toronto, Canada. I don't think I owned any new clothes until I was, like, 15 or something. They were all second-hand and forged from paper.

  Paulo Costanzo

  Kids, Thinking, Hands

  "Royal Pains Q&A: Paulo Costanzo". The Morning Call Interview, www.mcall.com. May 20, 2009.

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• I come from the slums; I come from a hard background; I come from a poor family; and I was a soldier.

  Michael Caine

  Soldier, Backgrounds, Slums

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• If you loved, sooner or later you always lost; that was the penalty you had to pay for loving. Grief can be endured - somehow. But how poor and bare would be a life which had nothing to grieve over!

  Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett

  Grief, Grieving, Would Be

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• Poor wretches that depend
  On greatness' favor, dream as I have done;
  Wake, and find nothing.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Greatness, Done

  William Shakespeare, Oliver William Bourn Peabody, Samuel Weller Singer, Charles Symmons, John Payne Collier (1839). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Julius Cæser. Antony and Cleopatra. Cymbeline. Titus Andronicus. Pericles”, p.315

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• All to whom want is terrible, upon whatever principle, ought to think themselves obliged to learn the sage maxims of our parsimonious ancestors, and attain the salutary arts of contracting expense; for without economy none can be rich, and with it few can be poor.

  Samuel Johnson

  Art, Thinking, Principles

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1857). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.97

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• Christmas turns things tail-end foremost. The day and the spirit of Christmas rearrange the world parade. As the world arranges it, usually there come first in importance -- leading the parade with a big blare of a band -- the Big Shots. Frequently they are also the Stuffed Shirts. That's the first of the parade. Then at the tail end, as of little importance, trudge the weary, the poor, the lame, the halt, and the blind. But in the Christmas spirit, the procession is turned around. Those at the tail end are put first in the arrangement of the Child of Christmas.

  Bill Vaughan

  Children, Tails, Band

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• When I was 16, I made some little 35mm documentaries about the poor in London. I went round Notting Hill, which was a real slum in the 1950s, shooting film.

  David Suchet

  Real, Shooting, Littles

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My daughter Lily's the oldest, and by the time she was six months, we just had books of photos. Poor little Maeve, who's six months old now My mom hasn't met her yet, and last night she said, 'Show me some pictures!' I'm looking through my phone like, 'Well, I got a couple, but they're from two months ago'

  Chris O'Donnell

  Mom, Daughter, Couple

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• Some have sought to avoid suffering by avoiding desire. Thus they have only small desires and small sufferings, poor fools.

  Peter J. Carroll

  Suffering, Desire, Fool

  Peter J. Carroll (1987). “Liber Null & Psychonaut: An Introduction to Chaos Magic”, p.87, Weiser Books

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• There is not such a mighty difference as some men imagine between the poor and the rich; in pomp, show, and opinion, there is a great deal, but little as to the pleasures and satisfactions of life. They enjoy the same earth and air and heavens; hunger and thirst make the poor man's meat and drink as pleasant and relishing as all the varieties which cover the rich man's table; and the labor of a poor man is more healthful, and many times more pleasant, too, than the ease and softness of the rich.

  Thomas Sherlock

  Men, Differences, Air

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 454, 1895.

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• The United States of America is the richest country in the world; yet we're the worst at taking care of poor people.

  Unita Blackwell

  Country, America, People

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• Guilt, the poor man's mind control.

  Karen Kijewski

  Men, Mind, Guilt

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• how often I longed to lovingly administer release! ... to have the courage and the right, after the soul is fled, to stop the poor wretched machine, that exists only to suffer and cause suffering.

  Blanche Willis Howard

  Soul, Suffering, Causes

  Blanche Willis Howard (1900). “The Garden of Eden”

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• I thought of what might be, if only the people who have too much money would help those who have too little!

  Ellen Buckingham Mathews

  People, Littles, Might

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• Good governance is treating development as a mass movement in order to see that fruits of development reach the poor and the downtrodden.

  Narendra Modi

  Order, India, Movement

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