"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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"You must do as your people do. If my people are poor, I must be poor. People ask me, 'Why don't you find a personal coach or a private car?' I can't. Then I won't be part of my people."
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"A good intention, with a bad approach, often leads to a poor result."
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"Exploitation of the poor can be extinguished not by effecting the destruction of a few millionaires, but by removing the ignorance of the poor and teaching them to non-cooperate with their exploiters."
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"Very few people can afford to be poor."
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"I'd like to live like a poor man with a lot of money."
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"I am the poet of the poor, because I was poor when I loved; since I could not give gifts, I gave words."
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"Only the poor are handicapped by honor."
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"I have made no money. I am as poor now as ever I was in my life - except in hope, which is by no means bankable."
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"God only, who made us rich, can make us poor."
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"And when you're poor, you grow up fast."
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"Somebody says, 'Well, I can't be concerned about other people. About the best I can do is to take care of myself' Well, then you will always be poor."
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"Before you can transform your wallet from poor to rich, you've got to transform your spirit from poor to rich."
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"Get to know the poor in your country. Love them. Serve them."
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"Doom very evenly! Do not doom one doom to the rich; another to the poor! Nor doom one doom to your friend; another to your foe!"
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"How poor is the wisdom of men, and how uncertain their forecast!"
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