Bill Gates
Business Magnate, Philanthropist
"If you are born poor its not your mistake, But if you die poor its your mistake."
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Bryan Stevenson
Lawyer, Author
"The true measure of our character is how we treat the poor, the disfavored, the accused, the incarcerated, and the condemned."
Bryan Stevenson
Lawyer, Author
"We've all been acculturated into accepting the inevitability of wrongful convictions, unfair sentences, racial bias, and racial disparities and discrimination against the poor."
Tupac Shakur
Rapper, Actor, Activist
"They Have Money For War But Can't Feed The Poor."
Leonardo da Vinci
Artist, Scientist, Inventor
"I am not poor. Poor are those who desire many things."
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"Give and you shall receive, much more that you ever thought possible. Give and give again. People who give will never be poor!"
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"The Bible has been the Magna Charta of the poor and of the oppressed."
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"Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency."
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"With the best equipment in the world the man with poor judgment is in mortal danger."
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"The rich cannot accumulate wealth without the co-operation of the poor in society."
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"I should like to know who has been carried off, except poor dear me - I have been more ravished myself than anybody since the Trojan war."
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"All public resources go to the rich. The poor, if they can survive in the labor market, fine. Otherwise, they die. That's economics in a nutshell."
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"Additional problems are the offspring of poor solutions."
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"As a rule, only the poor are generous."
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"Microfinance recognizes that poor people are remarkable reservoirs of energy and knowledge"
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"We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering."
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"By 2035, there will be almost no poor countries left in the world."
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"To be rich you have to know what it is to be poor. Getting financially literate is part of the price you have to pay to become rich"
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"You don't have to be poor to need something or somebody."
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"You have got to be willing to be poor as an entrepreneur."
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"Religion is the opium of the poor."
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"Words are such a poor medium when you really want someone to feel something."
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"How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?"
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"If you’re still poor at 35, you deserve it."
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"Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof."
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