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No house was so poor as not to have its 'family altar,' its shelf of wooden gods, and table of offerings. A religious atmosphere pervades Tibet and gives it a singular sense of novelty. Isabella Bird

Family Sense Religious Table Atmosphere Gives Tibet House Altar Shelf Singular Gods Wooden Poor Novelty

Poverty brings one blessing in Turkey - the poor man is of necessity a monogamist. Isabella Bird

Man Blessing Poverty Poor Man Turkey Poor Brings Necessity

In my wildest imagination, I never thought that the fifth of six children born to Helen and Buddy Watts - in a poor black neighborhood, in the poor rural community of Eufaula, Oklahoma - would someday be called Congressman. J. C. Watts

Thought Black Community Imagination Wildest Neighborhood Oklahoma Would Rural Born Someday Never Buddy Six Children Poor Fifth Congressman

I never thought, when I was a kid, that there was a sense of competition or animosity towards poor blacks. I just thought there was a recognition that they lived differently - they primarily lived on the other side of town. And we're both poor, but that's kind of it. There wasn't much explicit statement of kinship or of the lack of kinship. J. D. Vance

Competition Thought Sense Other Side Statement Kid Recognition Kind Kinship Blacks Both Never Animosity Primarily Towards Town Lack Just Explicit Poor Much Lived Differently

For complicated historical and political reasons, we associate 'poor' in our public consciousness with 'black.' Terms such as 'welfare queen' and 'culture of poverty' became associated uniquely with the social maladies of African Americans in urban ghettos, despite the fact that poor whites outnumbered poor blacks. J. D. Vance

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We'll rail against the way the government has destroyed our health care market in one breath and resist the support offered to the poor and middle class to navigate this brokenness with the other. This is not conservative; it is incoherence masquerading as ideological purity. J. D. Vance

Government Health Class Conservative Care Breath Other Market Our Way Destroyed Purity Support Masquerading Ideological Health Care Offered Middle Middle Class Against Poor Navigate Rail Resist

For me, growing up in a ridiculously poor family living in dead-end neighborhoods, Superman was a deeply personal icon, one that said you can do anything if you put your mind to it. What he stood for formed the core of who I wanted to be as I grew up, and informed how I view the world and my responsibilities to other people. J. Michael Straczynski

Family Me You People World Mind Superman Living Other Neighborhoods Responsibilities He Put Said How Up Personal Stood Wanted Grew Anything Formed Informed Icon Poor View Your Who Growing Ridiculously Growing Up Deeply Core

I never met a poor person who wanted to soak the rich; they want to get rich. Jack Kemp

Met Rich Never Person Get Want Soak Wanted Poor Who

We don't need to bring down the rich folk to help the poor. Jack Kemp

Rich Down Folk Poor Help Bring Need

When I was a child, I was very poor and wanted everything. So when I got money, I began buying things. Jackie Chan

Money Everything Got Began Very Child Wanted Poor Things Buying

I remember my father, who was 'somebody' in the synagogue, bringing home with him one of the poor men who waited outside to be chosen to share the Passover meal. These patriarchal manners I remember well, although there was about them an air of bourgeois benevolence which was somewhat comic. Jacob Epstein

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A poor worker is taxed heavily to receive his own money back with a modest supplement. Surely it would be more efficient just to pay the supplement and take him out of direct tax altogether. Jacob Rees-Mogg

If the work is poor, the public taste will soon do it justice. And the author, reaping neither glory nor fortune, will learn by hard experience how to correct his mistakes. Jacques-Louis David

I grew up in this poor place, with very limited circumstances, at about 16 years of age was sent by my family to work, and instead of remaining in the position into which I was sent, I somehow worked my way out of it without any help from anyone, just luck. Jamaica Kincaid

Work Family Age Luck Way Circumstances Out About Somehow Remaining Instead Without Limited Years Up Very Any Just Anyone Grew Place Which Sent Poor Worked Help Position

Buying coffee on the street instead of in a Starbucks is the poor man's way to get rich. In other words, you will never get rich by scratching out ten cents from your dollar. James Altucher

We are incredibly poor predictors of our future. James Altucher

Future Incredibly Our Poor

I get a lot of fans who deal with poor mental health. But that's the good thing about the Internet - that there are so many kids who can confide together and help each other out. James Charles

We should govern our actions by assuming that people are more good than bad. Whereas, most of our social policies dictate that people are more bad than good. That you know if you do something, it'll be seized by the rich to exploit the poor. James D. Watson

I myself scraped seven poor passes at O-level. James Dyson

Myself Seven Passes Poor

I went off to a school with the children of CEOs and diplomats. To be able to be at home with that group of people and at home with the desperately poor has been good for me in preparation for my coming to Washington. James Green Somerville

Good Home Me People School Group Preparation Desperately Has-Been Able Diplomats Coming Been Off Children Poor CEOs Washington

What makes tar sands particularly odious is that the energy you get out in the end, per unit carbon dioxide, is poor. It's equivalent to burning coal in your automobile. James Hansen

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