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Poor man wanna be rich,
rich man wanna be king
And a king ain't satisfied
till he rules everything.Darkness On The Edge Of Town (1978) Badlands -
Pope John Paul, a man of peace and compassion, was one of the most revered leaders of our time.
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Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.
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Poverty is uncomfortable; but 9 times out of 10 the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and be compelled to sink or swim.
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Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse.
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Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
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Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions.
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Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.
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Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.
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Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.
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Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
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Principles and rules are intended to provide a thinking man with a frame of reference.
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Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.
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Prohibition goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes crimes out of things that are not crimes.
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Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.
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Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.
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Providing for one's family as a good husband and father is a water-tight excuse for making money hand over fist. Greed may be a sin, exploitation of other people might, on the face of it, look rather nasty, but who can blame a man for ''doing the best'' for his children?
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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.
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