Quotes with impoverished

  • This instinctive repulsion which tradespeople inspire in men of sensitive feeling is one of the very rare consolations for being so impoverished which are given to those of us who don't sell anything to anybody.

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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler Anyone can see why an elite athlete would want to leave a small, impoverished country where their skills were effectively uncashed winning lottery tickets. All they had to do was wash ashore almost anywhere else in the world and cash in. Yet the vast majority of Cuban boxers - and Cuban athletes in general - despite that incentive, stayed.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • P. D. James Great literature cannot grow from a neglected or impoverished soil. Only if we actually tend or care will it transpire that every hundred years or so we might get a Middlemarch.
    P. D. James
    English crime writer (1920 - 2014)
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  • Camille Paglia In today's impoverished dialogue, critiques of liberalism are often naively called conservative, as if twenty-five hundred years of Western intellectual tradition presented no other alternatives.
    Source: Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    American architect (1867 - 1959)
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  • Louis Ferdinand Céline This instinctive repulsion which tradespeople inspire in men of sensitive feeling is one of the very rare consolations for being so impoverished which are given to those of us who don't sell anything to anybody.
    Louis Ferdinand Céline
    French writer (1894 - 1961)
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  • Roland Barthes To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.
    Roland Barthes
    French writer, literary critic, linguist and philosopher (1915 - 1980)
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  • Angela Davis What I think is different today is the lack of political connection between the black middle class and the increasing numbers of black people who are more impoverished than ever before.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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