- Corruption
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poor Quotes
On scarcity, sympathy, and getting by with less.
These poor quotes move between genre commentary on bad decisions in horror movies, a pointed observation about selective sympathy during the Gulf War, and the practical mindset that comes from having very little. One entry also touches on the limited, poorly written roles once offered to certain actresses in Hollywood casting. For related themes, see Life quotes.
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- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am the son of poor peasants who came at a very young age to live in Algeria. I only recently saw the place where they were born, near the city of Marrakech.
- Empathize
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- Nov 07, 2020
In theory, parents are supposed to empathize with one other - find common cause in the fervent desire to preserve and protect the world for the next generation, and connect on some deep, almost mystical level that those poor souls who have not experienced this kind of all-consuming love cannot possibly comprehend.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in Jerusalem with a religious background and a rabbi as a father... it was rather poor, but what we did have, we did have books.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in Jerusalem in 1939 to a poor family that shared a rented four-room apartment with two additional families and their children.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was a factory worker, and we were really poor. But everything I earned peddling papers and working in stores, he made me put aside for education.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents were not poor, I mean we were a very average middle-class family of academics, but my grandfather happened to have built house literally next to one of Kolkata's largest slum.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Corruption is a huge problem and the poor and the powerless are often its most egregious victims. But it is not an accident that the most effective bureaucracies in the world rely much more on internal controls rather than on independent ombudsmen.
- Bad
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- Nov 07, 2020