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The best loved by God are those that are rich, yet have the humility of the poor, and those that are poor and have the magnanimity of the rich.
Saadi
God
Best
Rich
Humility
Those
Magnanimity
Loved
Poor
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
Tom Robbins
Government
Business
Soul
Magic
Disbelief
Force
Poor
Believing
Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning.
Virat Kohli
Work
Morning
You
Achievement
Yourself
Mirror
Joke
Every
Recognise
Out
Weaknesses
Pretension
See
Liking
Real
Snap
Poor
Your
Play
Strengths
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
Work
You
People
Work Hard
Ahead
Simple
Opportunity
Old
Responsibility
Party
Nation
Young
Rich
Believe
I Believe
Take
Get
Regardless
Region
Race
Poor
Notion
Hard
Belief
Unites
Profound
In so far as the government lands can be disposed of, I am in favor of cutting up the wild lands into parcels so that every poor man may have a home.
Abraham Lincoln
Government
Home
Man
Poor Man
Every
Wild
Favor
Am
Up
May
Poor
Far
Cutting
Lands
The man of science is a poor philosopher.
Albert Einstein
Man
Science
Philosopher
Poor
Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.
Alexander Pope
Satan
Before
Rich
Instead
Wiser
Making
Than
Poor
Now
Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them.
Anacharsis
Will
Rich
Weak
Easily
Spiders
Web
Laws
Only
Through
Written
Powerful
Like
Hold
Break
While
Them
Poor
Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.
Angela Davis
Education
People
Higher Education
Prison
More
Color
Higher
Institutions
Likely
Than
Poor
Poor People
Much
Found
The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead.
Ann Landers
Be Happy
Happy
Wish
Single
Rich
Married
Dead
Poor
Building sustainable cities - and a sustainable future - will need open dialogue among all branches of national, regional and local government. And it will need the engagement of all stakeholders - including the private sector and civil society, and especially the poor and marginalized.
Ban Ki-moon
Future
Government
Will
Building
National
Society
Local
Local Government
Sector
Cities
Civil
Civil Society
Open
Dialogue
Private
Private Sector
Branches
Sustainable
Regional
Stakeholders
Poor
Engagement
Including
Among
Marginalized
Need
There is no obstacle in the path of young people who are poor or members of minority groups that hard work and preparation cannot cure.
Barbara Jordan
Work
Hard Work
People
Path
Minority
Young
Preparation
Members
Obstacle
Cure
Cannot
Young People
Poor
Hard
Who
Groups
New Age values are conscious evolution, a non-sectarian society, a non-military culture, global sharing, healing the environment, sustainable economies, self-determination, social justice, economic empowerment of the poor, love, compassion in action, going beyond religious fundamentalism, going beyond nationalism-extreme nationalism, culture.
Deepak Chopra
Love
Justice
Age
Healing
Culture
Compassion
Values
Nationalism
Action
Society
Evolution
Religious
Economic
Environment
Sharing
Economies
New
New Age
Global
Beyond
Self-Determination
Empowerment
Going
Sustainable
Social
Poor
Social Justice
Conscious
Fundamentalism
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
Edmund Burke
Money
Wealth
Free
Rich
Our
Indeed
Shall
Command
Commands
Poor
Us
Christ didn't choose the rich to preach the doctrine; he choose 12 poor ignorant workers - that is, he chose the proletariat of the times.
Fidel Castro
Christ
Preach
Rich
Proletariat
He
Doctrine
Times
Poor
Workers
Ignorant
Choose
Chose
I'm not one that believes that affirmative action should be based on one's skin color or one's gender, I think it should be done based on one's need, because I think if you are from a poor white community, I think that poor white kid needs a scholarship just as badly as a poor black kid.
J. C. Watts
Needs
You
Black
Gender
White
Skin
Community
Action
Think
Kid
Color
Scholarship
Badly
Because
Affirmative
Affirmative Action
Done
Just
Poor
Should
Skin Color
Based
Believes
Need
I blame my mother for my poor sex life. All she told me was 'the man goes on top and the woman underneath.' For three years my husband and I slept in bunk beds.
Joan Rivers
Life
Me
Man
Woman
Blame
Mother
Sex
Husband
Three
Slept
Top
She
Underneath
Beds
Years
Bunk
Goes
Poor
The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.
Lord Byron
Life
Welcome
Dog
First
Foremost
Friend
Poor
Defend
Be generous to the poor orphans and those in need. The man to whom our Lord has been liberal ought not to be stingy. We shall one day find in Heaven as much rest and joy as we ourselves have dispensed in this life.
Saint Ignatius
Life
Day
Man
Joy
Rest
Liberal
Ought
Our
Our Lord
Those
One Day
Ourselves
Has-Been
Find
Shall
Generous
Lord
Been
Stingy
Heaven
Poor
Much
Whom
Orphans
Need
I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
King
Books
Would
Rather
Cottage
Read
Without
Than
Poor
Full
Desire
How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
William Shakespeare
Patience
Wound
Degrees
Heal
How
Did
Poor
Ever
This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.
William Tecumseh Sherman
War
People
Old
Young
Rich
Fighting
Other
Must
Hostile
Feel
Particular
Armies
Make
Hand
Poor
Hard
Wars
Differs
When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one - it's the first blow in a suicidal movement. I see the neglect in cities around the country, in poor white children in West Virginia and Virginia and Kentucky - in the big cities, too, for that matter.
Maya Angelou
Family
Matter
First
Country
Big
White
Too
Virginia
Neglect
Neglects
I See
Members
Cities
Weaker
Weakest
See
Around
Big Cities
West
West Virginia
Blow
Human
Movement
Children
Race
Poor
Human Race
Kentucky
Suicidal
Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
Benjamin Franklin
Having
Shame
Been
Being
Ashamed
Poor
Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.
C. Northcote Parkinson
Government
People
Will
Rich
Machinery
Make
Sovereign
Poor
Use
When poor people get involved in a long conflict, such as a strike or a civil rights drive, and the pressure increases each day, there is a deep need for spiritual advice. Without it, we see families crumble, leadership weaken, and hard workers grow tired.
Cesar Chavez
Day
Leadership
Spiritual
Tired
Rights
Conflict
People
Pressure
Long
Drive
Advice
Increases
Strike
Weaken
Civil
See
Civil Rights
Crumble
Involved
Without
Families
Get
Poor
Poor People
Workers
Hard
Deep
Each
Each Day
Grow
Need
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