Quotes 201 till 220 of 628.
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I want there to be no peasant in my realm so poor that he will not have a chicken in his pot every Sunday.
Original:Je veux que les paysans mettent la poule au pot tous les dimanches.
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I was born illegitimately and almost immediately, as I understand it, placed in an orphanage. So my very earliest memories were in an orphanage. It was the tag end of the Great Depression when I was born. People were desperately poor.
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I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.
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I was thought to be 'stuck up.' I wasn't. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure.
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I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself .
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I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.
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I'm hostile to men, I'm hostile to women, I'm hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I'm afraid of horses.
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I'm trying to get people to see that we are our brother's keeper. Red, white, black, brown or yellow, rich or poor, we all have the blues.
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I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is only a temporary situation
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I've studied now Philosophy and Jurisprudence, Medicine - and even, alas! Theology - from end to end with labor keen; and here, poor fool with all my lore I stand, no wiser than before.
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If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
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If I didn't like poor people, why would I come and tell them how to make their lives better?
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If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor. Poor in happiness and poor in all that makes life worth living.
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If the air quality is terrible in Los Angeles, if a particular university is unusually expensive, if crime is on the rise in Dallas, or if a company has a lot of recalled toys, transparency can spur change. Whenever public or private institutions have to answer to the public, their performance is likely to improve.
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If the barricades went up in our streets and the poor became masters, I think the priests would escape, I fear the gentlemen would; but I believe the gutters would simply be running with the blood of philanthropists.
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If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
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If the most significant characteristic of man is the complex of biological needs he shares with all members of his species, then the best lives for the writer to observe are those in which the role of natural necessity is clearest, namely, the lives of the very poor.
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If to do were as easy as to know, what were good to do, chapels had been churches and poor men's cottages princes'palaces.
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