Quotes with poor-quality

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  • Francis Bacon Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Carson McCullers Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us [Americans] almost like a national disease. Our literature is stamped with a quality of longing and unrest, and our writers have been great wanderers.
    Carson McCullers
    American novelist and poet (1917 - 1967)
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  • Mother Teresa Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • Aesop Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.
    Aesop
    Greek fabulist and story teller (620 - 564)
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  • Horace Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Albert J. Nock Perhaps one reason for the falling-off of belief in a continuance of conscious existence is to be found in the quality of life that most of us lead. There is not much in it with which, in any kind of reason, one can associate the idea of immortality.
    Albert J. Nock
    American libertarian author (1870 - 1945)
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  • Bill McKibben Pity the poor senator or representative trying to stay alive in the political jungle. At every turn, there's a danger: a constituent who actually wants something done. Or worse, a campaign donor who might be offended by that something.
    Bill McKibben
    American environmentalist, author, and journalist (1960 - )
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Plagiarists at least have the quality of preservation.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Gloria Steinem Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • George Eliot Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Bernard Crick Politics is too often regarded as a poor relation, inherently dependent and subsidiary; it is rarely praised as something with a life and character of its own.
    In Defence Of Politics Ch. 1, The Nature Of Political Rule, p. 15
    Bernard Crick
    British political theorist (1929 - 2008)
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  • William Shakespeare Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.
    Othello (1622)
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Ernest Hemingway Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don't know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Aneurin Bevan Poor fellow, he suffers from files.
    Aneurin Bevan
    British Labor politician (1897 - 1960)
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  • Emma Goldman Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name!
    Emma Goldman
    American anarchist (1869 - 1940)
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  • Sidney Madwed Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relative value. A man of financial wealth who values himself by his financial net worth is poorer than a poor man who values himself by his intrinsic self worth.
    Sidney Madwed
    American business consultant, lyricist and author
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  • Jean Anouilh Poor little men, poor little cocks! As soon as they're old enough, they swell their plumage to be conquerors. If they only knew that it's enough to be just a little bit wounded and sad in order to obtain everything without fighting for it.
    Jean Anouilh
    French playwright (1910 - 1987)
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  • Bruce Springsteen 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
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Jonathan Swift Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Wallace Stevens Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!
    Wallace Stevens
    American poet (1879 - 1955)
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