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It is no disgrace to be poor, but it is awfully...

It is no disgrace to be poor, but it is awfully inconvenient.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about poverty

One learns at least as much about management from poor...

One learns at least as much about management from poor managers as from good ones.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about heads, good, good luck

The opponents of this process have always tried to vilify...

The opponents of this process have always tried to vilify westernization as a poor imitation.

Quote by Orhan Pamuk

The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable.

Quote by Theodore Parker about mistery, real estate, injustice, body, soul, death

Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the...

Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.

Quote by C. Northcote Parkinson about people, wealth, use

I'd become sort of involved in things that were happening to people. No matter what color they be, whether they be Indians, or Negroes, the poor white person or anyone who was I thought more or less getting a bad shake.

Quote by Gordon Parks about opinion, people, bad luck, thinking, bad, things

I hated school, even to this day, when I see a school bus...

I hated school, even to this day, when I see a school bus it's just depressing to me. The poor little kids.

Quote by Dolly Parton about education, school, day

No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He...

No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.

Quote by George S. Patton about opinion, country, war, death

Astonishingly, American taxpayers now will be forced to finance a multi-billion dollar jobs program in Iraq. Suddenly the war is about jobs. We export our manufacturing jobs to Asia, and now we plan to export our welfare jobs to Iraq, all at the...

Quote by Ron Paul about home, americans, war

China has always maintained that all countries, big or small, rich or poor, strong or weak, are equal members of the international community and they should stand and speak in the world as such.

Quote by Li Peng about country, wealth, world

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and...

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.

Quote by William Penn about knowledge, humility, proudness, clothes, ignorance

I believe the World Bank and other institutions can be turned around and do what they were originally intended to do, which is help reconstruct devastated parts of the world. Help genuinely help poor people. There are twenty-four thousand people...

Quote by John Perkins about opinion, help, bankers, world, change, people, death, faith, day

The poor people in those countries would be stuck ultimately with this amazing debt that they couldn't possibly repay. A country today like Ecuador owes over fifty percent of its national budget just to pay down its debt. And it really can't do...

Quote by John Perkins about nation, country, people

I was born poor and naked and now I die richer with a set...

I was born poor and naked and now I die richer with a set of clothes.

Quote by Ionuț Caragea about philosophy, clothes, death

I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

Quote by Oprah Winfrey about opinion, good, good luck, age, olderness

No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains...

No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.

Quote by Charles Haddon Spurgeon about poverty, wealth, people

A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.

A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.

Quote by Sidonie - Gabrielle Colette about childhood, happiness, human imperfections

Adam laid himself down in Paradise to sleep While from him was taken a wife to keep. Adam poor father of creation’s best Your first taste of sleep was your last of rest.

Quote by Matthias Claudius about religion, sleep, paradise, creation, wife, rest

Sex - the poor man's polo.

Sex - the poor man's polo.

Quote by Clifford Odets about sex, man

He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Quote by Jules Michelet about poverty

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