Quotes with poorest

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  • Benjamin Franklin Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Henry David Thoreau However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are the richest.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • John Millington Synge In the middle classes the gifted son of a family is always the poorest - usually a writer or artist with no sense for speculation - and in a family of peasants, where the average comfort is just over penury, the gifted son sinks also, and is soon a tramp on the roadside.
    John Millington Synge
    Irish playwright, poet, prose writer, travel writer (1871 - 1909)
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  • Abu Bakar Bashir Look at the Afghans, during the time of the Soviet invasion. They were among the poorest Muslims in the world, yet they were sustained by their faith in God, and God alone.
    Abu Bakar Bashir
    Indonesian Muslim cleric (1938 - )
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  • Ruth E. Renkel Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance.
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  • Bono Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world's poorest people.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The greatest man in history was the poorest.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Denzel Washington The poorest people are the sweetest people.
    Denzel Washington
    American actor, director, and producer (1954 - )
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  • Bjorn Lomborg The saddest fact of climate change - and the chief reason we should be concerned about finding a proper response - is that the countries it will hit hardest are already among the poorest and most long-suffering.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche The strongest knowledge (that of the total freedom of the human will) is nonetheless the poorest in successes: for it always has the strongest opponent, human vanity.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Boris Johnson We did everything we could to break down barriers that restrain poorest.
    Boris Johnson
    British politician and author (1964 - )
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  • Andy Warhol What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest.
    Andy Warhol
    American artist (1928 - 1987)
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  • Barber Conable Women do two thirds of the world's work. Yet they earn only one tenth of the world's income and own less than one percent of the world's property. They are among the poorest of the world's poor.
    The Conable years at the World Bank: major policy addresses of Barber B. Conable, 1986-91
    Barber Conable
    American politician (1922 - 2003)
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  • Maya Angelou I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed.
    Maya Angelou
    African-American poet and writer (1928 - 2014)
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