"One is only poor, only if they choose to be."
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"I am a seeker, a poor, sinful creature, there is no weaker than I."
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"The question, "When did you last listen to a poor person properly and try to understand what's going on inside their own experience?" enables you to connect."
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"[Albert Camus] is The First Man because he is poor, which has never been much to human beings."
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"Drawn by conceit from reason's plan How vain is that poor creature man; How pleas'd in ev'ry paltry elf To grate about that thing himself."
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"You're just too poor to get rich."
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"It has often been said, and certainly not without justification, that the man of science is a poor philosopher."
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"A million million spermatozoa, All of them alive: Out of their cataclysm but one poor Noah Dare hope to survive."
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"Haste is a poor counselor"
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"Poor thing. To die and never see Brooklyn."
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"If you go to working class, and working poor areas of America, the food sources that are relegated to them are generally limited to unhealthy ones."
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"It is easier to ask of the poor than of the rich."
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"Suffice it to say, I'm not poor."
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"... we see the poor as a mass of shadow, painted in one flat grey wash, at the remote edges of our sunshine."
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"No one is so poor that they cannot give, and no one is so rich that they cannot receive."
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"If we owned the property, we will be free and prosperous. If so they regain control, we will become poor"
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"A good story is obviously a difficult thing to invent, but its difficulty is a poor reason for despising it."
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"Poor man. Poor mankind."
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"My friends were poor, but honest, so's my love."
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"And makes me poor indeed."
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