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Impoverished is the life fenced in with few friends -- Spencer W. Kimball
All of us, poor & rich alike, have been conditioned by our upbringings. Impoverished men & women may become lulled into a state of "learned helplessness" without hope to change their lives. Likewise, the wealthy can walk in a state of "learned blindness" ignoring the desperation of the local & global poor. -- John Green
How can a country that is impoverished, humiliated and beaten defend its national interests? -- Ivica Dacic
When art is defined by Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons, you've got a society that's impoverished. -- Robert Adams
If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished. -- Richard M. Nixon
The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present. -- Alan Watts
Wal-Mart impoverished its own customer base. Google is facing exactly the same issue long-term, although not yet. -- Jaron Lanier
I know that a mother, no matter how impoverished or uneducated, will do anything to save her babies. -- Jane Chen
Conservatives may believe that impoverished borrowers destroyed Wall Street. But we liberals will not fool ourselves that stupid bankers sank conservatism for good. -- Thomas Frank
We cannot ignore the disparity in resources that continue to plague many of our school systems, especially those serving predominantly inner-city minority and impoverished children. -- Diane Watson
The world does not lack the financial resources to feed, educate and clothe its inhabitants. Rather, it lacks leaders committed to addressing the problems of the impoverished. -- Oscar Arias
The effectiveness of advertising depends on the amount and kind of product information available to consumers... advertising will be more successful the more impoverished the consumer's information environment. -- Michael Schudson
To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished. -- Roland Barthes
When we see people that are impoverished and people who are dealt an unfair hand, then if we have the power to help them, we should try to do that. -- John Legend
My mother was a schoolteacher and very keen that I go to a city school, so although it was fairly impoverished times, I traveled every day to the Auckland Grammar School. -- Edmund Hillary
They will come to learn in the end, at their own expense, that it is better to endure competition for rich customers than to be invested with monopoly over impoverished customers. -- Frederic Bastiat
What I think is different today is the lack of political connection between the black middle class and the increasing numbers of black people who are more impoverished than ever before. -- Angela Davis
I think, first and foremost, Marie Antoinette was intellectually impoverished. She really had never been introduced to the notion of abstract thinking - of thinking at all in any profound way. -- Kathryn Lasky
The conditions of suffering that exist today in our impoverished communities are not acceptable. The reflection of those conditions are less concerning to me. And I work everyday about changing the conditions. -- Russell Simmons
I wrote 'Soul Keeping' because we are taught more about how to care for our cars than how to steward our souls. But you cannot have an impactful life with an impoverished soul. -- John Ortberg
Indeed, while so much in education reform can divide activists into warring camps, expanding learning time unites reformers around a shared vision of bringing excellence and breadth to our nation's most impoverished and struggling schools. -- Chris Gabrieli
We must stop trying to protect our planet from every imaginable, exaggerated or imaginary risk. And we must stop trying to protect it on the backs, and the graves, of the nation's and world's most powerless and impoverished people. -- Niger Innis
However my parents - both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension. -- J. K. Rowling
In 'The Hunger Games,' in most people's idea, in terms of rebellion or a civil-war situation, that would meet the criteria for a necessary war. These people are oppressed, their children are being taken off and put in gladiator games. They're impoverished, they're starving, they're brutalized. -- Suzanne Collins
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Many scientists have been drawn to Buddhism out of a sense that the Western tradition has delivered an impoverished conception of basic, human sanity. In the West, if you speak to yourself out loud all day long, you are considered crazy. But speaking to yourself silently - thinking incessantly - is considered perfectly normal. -- Sam Harris
Nobody goes to jail.' This is the mantra of the financial-crisis era, one that saw virtually every major bank and financial company on Wall Street embroiled in obscene criminal scandals that impoverished millions and collectively destroyed hundreds of billions, in fact, trillions of dollars of the world's wealth - and nobody went to jail. -- Matt Taibbi
In a lot of the really impoverished areas of Johannesburg you see these packets of cheesy puffs which are like 6 feet long and the width of a basketball, and they're transparent and they have like 10,000 cheesy puffs in them, and you can buy that for like 50 cents. It's kind of a weird treat that you'd see people having in the townships. -- Neill Blomkamp
By all means rid yourself of an impoverished faith. -- George MacDonald
Nobody is ever impoverished through the giving of charity. -- Maimonides
Progress in the most impoverished parts of our world enriches us all. -- Barack Obama
We believe that a person who is impoverished temporally cannot blossom spiritually. -- Keith B. McMullin
To maintain an army at a distance causes the people to be impoverished. -- Sun Tzu
Life rejuvenates and acquires energy when it multiplies: It is enriched, not impoverished! -- Pope Francis
His death eclipsed the gayety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure. -- Samuel Johnson
The contemporary Christian mind is starved, and as a result we have small, impoverished souls. -- J.P. Moreland
It is a spiritually impoverished nation that permits infants and children to be the poorest Americans. -- Marian Wright Edelman
In a word, the consumer of mass culture is lonely, not only lonely, but spiritually impoverished. -- Walker Percy
Great nations are never impoverished by private, though they sometimes are by public prodigality and misconduct. -- Adam Smith
To dress up today in the threadbare garments of yesterday is to create an impoverished tomorrow. -- Craig D. Lounsbrough
Why do most people think their own impoverished lives must be the norm of the universe? -- Poul Anderson
There are none so impoverished as those who do not acknowledge the abundance of their lives -- Richard Paul Evans
The inadequacy of the purely purpose-oriented form is revealed for what it is-a monotonous, impoverished boring practicality. -- Theodor Adorno
It's unconscionable to breed with the number of children who are starving to death in impoverished countries, -- Ashley Judd
The species of anti-Enlightenment religion we find among evangelical protestants is far more impoverished, anti-intellectual and downright wretched. -- Allen W. Wood
The court's recent understanding of religion as a private matter for individuals has plainly become malnourished and impoverished. -- Stephen V Monsma
On the whole, our modern ritual is impoverished and does not fulfill man's need for collective art and ritual. -- Erich Fromm
Poor children in Baltimore face even worse odds than low-income kids elsewhere, mostly because they remain in impoverished neighborhoods. -- Gwen Ifill
Keeping off a large weight loss is a phenomenon about as common in American medicine as an impoverished dermatologist. -- Calvin Trillin
"Our experience of the world is being impoverished to the extent that it is being rendered artificial and prepackaged." -- David W. Orr
During my lifetime, America has been constantly waging war against much of humanity: impoverished people mostly, in stricken places. -- John Pilger
Sedition is bred in the lap of luxury and its chosen emissaries are the beggared spendthrift and the impoverished libertine. -- George Bancroft
If you don't go far enough back in memory or far enough ahead in hope, your future will be impoverished. -- Art Linkletter
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The combined efforts of millions of concerned citizens could do wonders to help the impoverished. The American people are ready for action! -- Barbara Boxer
As I watched my grandfather work with people who were impoverished, I began to understand that to be truly human, one must serve. -- Ernest L. Boyer
Hollywood provides ready-made fantasies or daydreams; the problem is whether these are productive or nonproductive, whether the audience is psychologically enriched or impoverished. -- Hortense Powdermaker
That's no good, I can't steal from the fairly well off and give to the moderately impoverished! That's not gonna swing, is it? -- Eddie Izzard
Strong role models and unconditional love can heal even the most emotionally impoverished person, and that goes for adults as well as youngsters. -- Ann Landers
Language is the only chimera whose illusory power is endless, the inexhaustibility which keeps life from being impoverished. Let men learn to serve language. -- Karl Kraus
Brooklyn has a bit of everything - some of the most beautiful things in America, and some of the most wretched, ugly, impoverished things. -- Paul Auster
The artist must try to raise the level of taste of the masses, not debase himself to the level of unformed and impoverished taste. -- Diego Rivera
In today's impoverished dialogue, critiques of liberalism are often naively called "conservative," as if twenty-five hundred years of Western intellectual tradition presented no other alternatives. -- Camille Paglia
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We are into the opening stages of a human-caused biotic holocaust-a wholesale elimination of species-that could leave the planet impoverished for at least five million years. -- Norman Myers
As an impoverished student I used to spend days out in Selfridges, nibbling on samples of free cheese and dousing myself with scent in the perfume department. -- Zoe Tapper
The effectiveness of advertising depends on the amount and kind of product information available to consumers... advertising will be more successful the more impoverished the consumer's information environment -- Michael Schudson
The wholeness, coherence, identity, which we attribute to the depicted scene [in a photograph] is a projection, a refusal of an impoverished reality in favour of an imagined plenitude. -- Victor Burgin
Rock music is rhythmically some of the most impoverished music the world has ever heard, a fact that is hard to square with the sophisticated technologies that produced it. -- Julian Johnson
The greatest asset of man is man. The wealth of any man is dependent upon the wealth of every other man. Abundance for one is impossible in an impoverished world. -- Walter Russell
Democracy is premised, in some measure, on majority rule, and democracy is difficult in a situation of concentrated inequalities in which a large, impoverished majority confronts a small, wealthy oligarchy. -- Samuel P. Huntington
The Science of Mind is intensely practical because it teaches us how to use the Mind Principle for definite purposes, such as helping those who are sick, impoverished, or unhappy. -- Ernest Holmes
The hoarders, who are anxiously worried about losing something, are, psychologically speaking, the poor impoverished people, regardless of how much they have. Whoever is capable of giving of themselves is rich. -- Erich Fromm
A new era will dawn in Africa, when the impoverished masses of a nation rise up to rescue their right to a decent life from the hands of the ruling oligarchies. -- Che Guevara
Great literature cannot grow from a neglected or impoverished soil. Only if we actually tend or care will it transpire that every hundred years or so we might get a Middlemarch. -- P. D. James
Those of us who frequent the band room have long suspected that Becca maintains her lovely figure by eating nothing but the souls of kittens and the dreams of impoverished children. -- John Green
Oft as by chance, a little while apart The pall of empty, loveless hours withdrawn, Sweet Beauty, opening on the impoverished heart, Beams like a jewel on the breast of dawn. -- Alan Seeger
I don't begrudge rich people running for office. God knows that FDR and JFK both came from very wealthy families but I think did more to help impoverished Americans than anybody else. -- Julie Roginsky
Like contemporary poetry , philosophy is one of those things, especially at the beginning stages, most people would rather do than study which is why most of what gets done is so impoverished. -- Samuel R. Delany
Without an understanding of history, we are politically, culturally and socially impoverished. If we sacrifice history to economic pressures or to budget cuts, we will lose a part of who we are. -- Antony Beevor
Thus it is, we sow motions of hatred out of our own impoverished understanding of love. Yet we do so in the name of love. The perplexing precipice of the illusory infirmity. -- Steven Storm
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In any totalitarian society, dissent is viewed as a threat, civic literacy is denounced, and those public spheres that produce engage citizens are dismantled or impoverished through the substitution of training for education. -- Henry Giroux
The living world has become impoverished. Species are being lost every day. Energy and other resources are nearing exhaustion. The environment is deteriorating. Pollution is everywhere. Climate is changing. Natural balances are threatened. -- Christian de Duve
Medicaid protects impoverished children, the frail elderly and people in crisis, .. Its limited resources will be further stretched serving hurricane victims. Proponents of Medicaid cuts either undervalue Medicaid assistance or underestimate American compassion. -- Sherrod Brown
Our soul lives in Peace and lives for Peace. If we live a life of peace, we are ever enriched and never impoverished. Unhorizoned is our inner peace; like the boundless sky, it encompasses all. -- Sri Chinmoy
Wabi means spare, impoverished; simple and functional. It connotes a transcendence of fad and fashion. The spirit of wabi imbues all the Zen arts, from calligraphy to karate, from the tea ceremony to Zen archery. -- Shunryu Suzuki
People with an impoverished vocabulary live an impoverished emotional life; people with rich vocabularies have a multihued palette of colors with which to paint their experience, not only for others, but for themselves as well. -- Tony Robbins

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