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Oh, how I would like a poor Church, and for the poor.
Pope Francis
Church
Would
Like
How
Oh
Poor
Trickle-down theories do not address the legitimate aspirations of the poor. We must lift those at the bottom so that poverty is erased from the dictionary of modern India.
Pranab Mukherjee
Poverty
Address
Those
Must
India
Lift
Bottom
Erased
Dictionary
Modern
Legitimate
Poor
Aspirations
Theories
I have poor people skills, and I cannot become a minister.
Pranav Mistry
People
Become
Minister
Cannot
Poor
Poor People
Skills
If anybody accuses me of being rich, I give it back to them because I had a poor economical background. I worked my way up, and I am an exemplary citizen, and I always do what is good for my nation.
R. Madhavan
Good
Me
Citizen
Nation
Rich
Being Rich
Back
Way
Background
Give
Had
Economical
Exemplary
Because
Always
Am
Up
Anybody
Being
Them
Poor
Worked
We know that the enemy of upward mobility is not poverty or even other people's success. The enemy of upward mobility is apathy and an educational system that offers choice to the privileged and traps the most vulnerable in unsafe and poor performing schools.
Rachel Campos-Duffy
Success
People
Enemy
Poverty
Other
System
Unsafe
Performing
Know
Most
Schools
Vulnerable
Educational
Mobility
Privileged
Offers
Upward
Upward Mobility
Apathy
Poor
Choice
Traps
Even
My dad, grew up poor in a copper-mining town in Arizona. The eleventh of 15 children, he learned to be resourceful and entrepreneurial at a young age, shining shoes at local bars and starting his own pinata business at the tender age of twelve.
Rachel Campos-Duffy
Business
Age
Shoes
Own
Young
Local
Resourceful
Entrepreneurial
Tender
He
Arizona
Town
Learned
His
Shining
Up
Young Age
Children
Grew
Poor
Twelve
Bars
Dad
Starting
We are all aware that corruption is pervasive. It operates at every level. The poor may carry its greatest burden, but it is an affliction that every Indian is desperate to be rid of.
Rahul Gandhi
Corruption
Burden
Desperate
Affliction
Every
Carry
Indian
Greatest
May
Poor
Pervasive
Rid
Aware
Level
I experienced firsthand what it means to be poor, what it means to go hungry, and that, I think, may be the reason, the root cause of why I'm able to work so hard, even these days.
Rain
Work
Cause
Think
Hungry
Able
Days
Firsthand
Go
May
Experienced
Poor
Root
Means
Hard
Reason
Even
Why
All of the religions are looking after the poor. At least leave me alone to look after the rich. I am the rich man's guru.
Rajneesh
Alone
Me
Man
Looking
Rich
Religions
Guru
Look
Am
Least
Leave
Leave Me Alone
After
Poor
To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects.
Raoul Vaneigem
Rich
Nowadays
Possess
Objects
Merely
Poor
Means
Large
Large Number
Number
I don't feel like, unless I have a boyfriend or somebody to march down the aisle with for the fifth time, that I'm 'Oh, poor me.' I'm not going to go running out desperately looking, making myself crazy and thinking that, without that, I'm nothing.
Raquel Welch
Time
Myself
Me
Crazy
Somebody
Looking
Nothing
Down
Thinking
Desperately
Unless
Aisle
Out
Running
Feel
Like
Without
Making
Boyfriend
Go
Going
Oh
Poor
Fifth
March
I was going through a divorce, and I had a lot of reading I was doing, and I developed what was probably a serious anxiety problem - because I was about as poor as you can get, in graduate school, and trying to make my work and keep my head above water.
Rashid Johnson
Work
You
Anxiety
Problem
Water
School
Reading
About
Above
Through
Had
Developed
Head
Divorce
Make
Because
Doing
Lot
Get
Trying
Graduate
Going
Graduate School
Poor
Serious
Keep
When people get at each other's throat, the rich and the poor and the Left and the Right and so on, and you have a basic breakdown, that becomes very threatening.
Ray Dalio
You
People
Rich
Other
Threatening
Throat
Becomes
Left
Very
Get
Breakdown
Poor
Each
Right
Basic
I'm just a poor boy from the cornfields of Richmond, Virginia. I'm proud because I loved baseball and played with the best.
Ray Dandridge
Best
Virginia
Because
Boy
Proud
Just
Loved
Poor
Richmond
Baseball
Played
Its easy to have principles when you're rich. The important thing is to have principles when you're poor.
Ray Kroc
You
Important
Rich
Easy
Principles
Important Thing
Poor
Thing
I think I'm a very poor piano player.
Ray Manzarek
Think
Piano
Piano Player
Very
Poor
Player
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
Death
Great
World
Sex
Dramas
Everyone
About
Shakespeare
Greatest
Juliet
Up
Ends
Dying
Romeo
Romeo And Juliet
Poor
Alas
Violence
Plays
Sometimes I wish I could go back through time to meet Proust, just so I could give him my asthma inhaler. The poor guy.
Rebecca Makkai
Time
Sometimes
Wish
Meet
Back
Asthma
Give
Guy
Could
Through
Him
Proust
Go
Just
Poor
I think for a certain demographic of American families that are not living below the poverty line, what is now becoming the working poor, I think they realize that their young daughters - and their sons, quite frankly - need to learn a skill set that is going to never go away, and I think that they see that in technology.
Reshma Saujani
Technology
Poverty
Go Away
Young
Living
Think
Frankly
See
Daughters
Never
Poverty Line
Sons
Learn
Demographic
Becoming
Go
Line
Families
American
Going
Quite
Quite Frankly
American Families
Poor
Realize
Skill
Certain
Working
Now
Away
Below
Need
Set
If you ask the average person on the street about U.S. energy and U.S. oil in particular, our situation, most Americans would say, 'Oh, we're energy poor; we don't have enough oil; we don't have enough natural gas.'
Rex Tillerson
You
Natural
Situation
Energy
Enough
Our
Say
Would
About
Particular
Most
Person
American
Oh
Oil
Natural Gas
Poor
Average
Ask
Average Person
Street
Gas
It is not impossible to succeed as a social democracy, where business and free enterprise thrive, and not abandon the disenfranchised, poor, sick, and elderly.
Richard Belzer
Democracy
Business
Impossible
Free
Thrive
Sick
Abandon
Enterprise
Free Enterprise
Disenfranchised
Where
Social
Succeed
Poor
Elderly
Social Democracy
I'm not interested in building wealth, which is kind of naive and probably frowned on, living in America. It's something that people don't necessarily understand, but if I die poor, I die poor.
Richard C. Armitage
People
Wealth
Building
Living
Kind
Something
Naive
Understand
America
Die
Frowned
Not Interested
Which
Interested
Poor
Necessarily
If the childhood obesity epidemic remains unchecked, it will condemn many of our kids to shorter lives, as well as the emotional and financial burdens of poor health.
Richard Carmona
Health
Financial
Will
Our
Kids
Obesity
Remains
Emotional
Well
Condemn
Burdens
Childhood
Poor
Poor Health
Epidemic
Many
Lives
What is the Obama Doctrine? It seems to be one of disengagement, to try to ignore the hot, religious, dry, poor countries from Algeria to Pakistan.
Richard Engel
Try
Algeria
Obama
Religious
Seems
Hot
Countries
Doctrine
Dry
Disengagement
Poor
Poor Countries
Ignore
Pakistan
A nation has its first obligation to its own workers and its own poor.
Richard Lamm
Obligation
First
Nation
Own
Poor
Workers
If all we've got is the dirt poor and the filthy rich, the dirt poor would eat the filthy rich.
Richard Ojeda
Rich
Filthy
Would
Eat
Dirt
Got
Poor
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