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There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich. -- Seneca the Younger
Social media has changed the world forever. We're not going to go backwards. People are not going to accept being poor, accept being excluded anymore. -- Jim Yong Kim
We know what makes babies smart and happy and thrive. It's having human beings who are dedicated to caring for them - human beings who are well supported, not stressed out and not poor. -- Alison Gopnik
As a liberal, I am morally obligated to be pragmatic. What good do I do poor people, elderly people, people who are being discriminated against because of their sexual orientation if I'm not realistic about accomplishing something. -- Barney Frank
I don't think people understand that being poor means you have to work from dawn until dusk just to survive through the day. I think there's some notion that poor people lie about all day not doing anything. -- Emma Thompson
One of the great problems of the world today is undoubtedly this problem of not being able to talk to scientists, because we don't understand science; they can't talk to us because they don't understand anything else, poor dears. -- Michael Flanders
I am always someone who follows the research more than my self-interest. It certainly has not been in my self-interest to defend men. I've gone from being quite wealthy, when I was defending women, to being quite poor defending men. -- Warren Farrell
The circulating medium being issued only by those who labor, they would suddenly become invested with all the wealth and all the power; and those who did not labor, be they ever so rich now, would as suddenly become poor and powerless. -- Josiah Warren
People who are disenfranchised politically and people who are poor often don't vote. They often don't elect politicians, so the politicians who are supporting them are really being very charitable, because they're not going to give them billions of dollars in campaign funds. -- Joyce Carol Oates
The money I pay for my cultural experiences came willingly from my own pocket - they were not the result of bread being removed from the mouths of the poor so that Miss Thing here could mince off to the circus smelling of roses. -- Julie Burchill
I mostly write about the working poor. Somehow, they're not being written about much anymore. I'm very interested in people who are in a situation that needs a little puzzling out. The thing that gets me started on a story is a person in a tough situation. -- Bonnie Jo Campbell
If you look at the world's top 50 drugs being sold today, they are being marketed and sold by companies that did not invent them. I respect patents. I'll pay a royalty. But I shouldn't be denied the right to produce drugs for poor people at reasonable prices. -- Yusuf Hamied
I was just very interested in the American frontier and the growth of capitalism - those enormous fortunes that were being made, more often than not, on the blood of poor people, black people, Indian people. They were the ones who paid very dearly for those great fortunes. -- Peter Matthiessen
I feel blessed that I am able to play really dark guys in a business where they usually want you to play the same character over and over. Poor Michael Rapaport will being playing white homeboys till the day he dies. That's not the kind of career I want. -- Ron Eldard
Whether rich or poor, a home is not a home unless the roots of love are ever striking deeper through the crust of the earthly and the conventional, into the very realities of being, not consciously always; seldom, perhaps; the simplicity of loving grows by living simply near nature and God. -- Lucy Larcom
The world does not have time to be with the poor, to learn with the poor, to listen to the poor. To listen to the poor is an exercise of great discipline, but such listening surely is what is required if charity is not to become a hatred of the poor for being poor. -- Stanley Hauerwas
I don't want there to be this separation between the rich and poor. I may be part of the three percent because I've been fortunate and done well for myself, but I will never forget about the 97 percent. That was me growing up. I was so poor I dreamt about being just 'regular poor,' not 'poor, poor.' -- Marlon Wayans
We are being accused that some models are anorexic. But we as fashion designers cannot be blamed, because you know, when I talk to women around the world, rich and poor and young and old and intellectual and not, what they want to be is skinny. You ask them, 'What is your dream?' It's to be skinny. That's all they want. -- Alber Elbaz
The vast majority of the guns in the U.S. are sold to white people who live in the suburbs or the country. When we fantasize about being mugged or home invaded, what's the image of the perpetrator in our heads? Is it the freckled-face kid from down the street - or is it someone who is, if not black, at least poor? -- Michael Moore
I was trained as journalist never to use the word 'I,' never to put my own opinion there. In fact, if you had a dollar or a euro for every time I use the word 'I,' you would be a poor person. But this is not true in general. I like the idea of being able to stand away and make a judgement. -- Suzy Menkes
Africa is not poor, Africa is being looted -- Omali Yeshitela
Being poor is a state of mind, not a condition. -- Alphonso Jackson
He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor. -- Samuel Johnson
Being poor is not an indication of potential or worth. Itâ??s a lack of resources. -- Kim Harrison
Being poor is not like being a victim. Being poor means that you don't have one resource. -- Kathy Calvin
I did not believe what I was told about being poor and black and female in Mississippi in 1954. -- Oprah Winfrey
There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich. -- Seneca the Younger
There is no being so poor and so contemptible, who does not think there is somebody still poorer, and still more contemptible. -- Samuel Johnson
Happiness and suffering do not depend on being poor or rich, they depend on having the right or wrong understanding in our mind. -- Ajahn Chah
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. -- Ric Edelman
Far from being a "luxury for the rich," organic farming may turn out to be a necessity not just for the poor, but for everyone. -- Raj Patel
part of the problem with a war on poverty today is that many Americans have decided that being poor is a character defect, not an economic condition. -- Anna Quindlen
You should never value people according to the size of their bank balances. Being poor does not make them bad and being rich does not make them good -- Jackie Ballard
It is a poor reverie which invites a nap. One must even wonder whether, in this "failing asleep", the subconscious itself does not undergo a decline in being. -- Gaston Bachelard
Another good thing about being poor is that when you are seventy your children will not have you declared legally insane in order to gain control of your estate. -- Woody Allen

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