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The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.
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.
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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.
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...
Family Quotes
One problem with globalisation is that bad ideas seem to travel faster than good ones; first there was smearing tomato ketchup on everything; then drinking sugar-soaked cocktails ('Cosmo'-politanism) instead of our traditional whisky soda, and now this idea that we...
Well-designed subsidies help the poor make the best of whatever opportunities they have; poorly designed ones either do very little or actually make things worse for them.
The degree of political pressure to make MGNREGA jobs available varies massively from state to state - which is why access to MGNREGA jobs is worse in a very poor state like Bihar than in a richer state like Andhra...
The poverty line in the U.S., for example, has nothing to do with the poverty line in India. It is a relative poverty line. It is reset from time to time but it is related to U.S. median income, so...
If PM-Kisan is implemented well, it will leave some money in the hands of poor farmers.
Good Quotes
We've learned a huge amount from organisations like Seva Mandir and Pratham, for example. In my personal experience, these organisations work on a very large scale with very poor people.
If you want to leave move money in the hands of poor people, you cannot do it through personal income tax cuts. You have to just give them money.
Hatred, intolerance, poor hygienic conditions and violence all have roots in illiteracy, so we're trying to do something to help the poor and the needy.
I joined Planned Parenthood because I wanted to help poor women with real health care needs.
After the war, prompted by the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris, I entered Parliament so that a priest could speak out for the poor, as canon law at that time still permitted.
Life Quotes
At the end of the day, we have an economy that works for the rich by cheating the poor, and unequal schools are the result of that, not the cause.
If we were poor, we didn't know it 'cause I guess you don't miss what you never had. So, you know, we made do with whatever. We used to make our own toys, and we used to play with spinning...
There is no concept more generally cherished by publishers than that of the Undeserving Poor.
As soon as, say, Saddam Hussein started bombing Israel with Scuds, everyone was like, 'Poor Israel.' But when Israel retaliates - and most of the time they then win - people turn against them.
Man Quotes
Yes. Otherwise I could have done a lot of Hollywood movies. After Crouching Tiger I got a lot of offers, but I turned them down because they were all victim roles - poor girls sold to America to be a...
The day every poor person in this country has a toilet in his home and his fuel requirements are met, whoever is the PM then shall rule for at least 25 years.
White communities - and I exempt poor white communities from this - have power over their representation. White people have the ability to define themselves, to exert their agency in a way that they get to be believed. No one...
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.
The nominal budget is a poor indicator of the impact of government outlays and revenues.
Me Quotes
If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces.
A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.
Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites; for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior.
Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.
Money Quotes
Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction.
In praising science, it does not follow that we must adopt the very poor philosophies which scientific men have constructed. In philosophy they have much more to learn than to teach.
All the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.
You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself and how little I deserve it.
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Perhaps they do not recognize themselves, for a rich man is even harder to define than a poor one.
The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the world pays its debt in the penitentiary or the poor house.
Men there have been who have done the essayist's part so well as to have earned an immortality in the doing; but we have had not many of them, and they make but a poor figure on our shelves. It...
Back in the thirties we were told we must collectivize the nation because the people were so poor. Now we are told we must collectivize the nation because the people are so rich.
People Quotes
But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
Beef also was difficult to be procured and exceedingly poor; the price nearly sixpence farthing per pound.
I have long believed the corporate world is plagued by poor capital allocation decisions.
At the time the Sendmail program had a very poor reputation with respect to security, with four root vulnerabilities per year for two successive years.
Rich Quotes
I've gone from being quite wealthy, when I was defending women, to being quite poor defending men.
We are very fond of blaming the poor for destroying the environment. But often it is the powerful, including governments, that are responsible.
Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could...
Amazon makes mistakes, including launching a smartphone in 2014 that was a flop and to which I gave a poor review.
Think Quotes
There is a valid nationwide sentiment of concern over public pensions, and poor funding ratios are viewed negatively by financial markets.
This left-wing kind of speech, the Robin Hood thing that Pablo had, of course he was a criminal and a mean person, but it wasn't a false. He wasn't false. I don't know what kind of president he would be,...
When we were in D.C. my daddy used to cut his hair with a bowl. Crucial. If you're African, Haitan, Jamaican or even more poor than the people in the project, you'll know about that.
World Quotes
To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
I am not trying to say that I am poor and that I don't like beautiful things. But I don't like luxury for luxury sake or in the sense of showing off luxury.
It is a curious phenomena that God has made the hearts of the poor, rich and those of the rich, poor.
I started life in a poor family and could not even afford a proper tertiary education.
What is superfluous to your poor estate, distribute. This is distributive charity: a virtue so sacred that crimes against it are the forerunner of inevitable doom.
You Quotes
Prohibition, like so many other policies imposed from the moral high ground, typically by those who do not drink, disproportionately affects the poor who resort to illegally brewed alcohol when they want a drink, not infrequently leading to their death,...
I came from a very poor family and my main dream in life was to break out of this poverty.
Now, Rahul Gandhi has offered Rs 72,000 per annum scheme to every poor person in India. It is a miracle scheme. While Modi failed to give Rs 15 lakh he promised to every poor person, Congress will fulfil its promise...
I should say many things. Mexico has been one of the losers of the 20th century. We tried many different alternatives to development and unfortunately we have 40 percent of the population poor; we have a per capita income that...
Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.
If we have poor coaches, that’s a reflection of me and a reflection of what we think we can give to the kids.
We need to accept the principle that sometimes poor people will die just because they are poor.
Being on the road is no excuse for having a poor diet. I don't like fast food, but if I have to, I'll order three plain grilled chicken sandwiches and throw out the buns.
I grew up poor, but I didn't really know it because of amazing places like the Salvation Army where we got a lot of our Christmas presents from.
Went to 16 and hit a really bad 3 wood for my second shot and got stuck in the bunker about 70 yards from the pin. Poor execution, chunked it, hit a good chip up to about eight feet, missed...
A poor choice of words conveyed to some the impression that I embrace the discarded policies of the past. Nothing could be further from the truth, and I apologize to anyone who was offended by my statement.
I grew up a poor kid to a single mom, so as an African-American actor I have a responsibility to hold the mirror up and reflect our stories. I'm living the dream and also escaped the inevitable.
Developing films with directors, developing films with actors, is a poor percentage play for a screenwriter.
I teach at Eastern University, which is highly committed to doing work among the poor and the oppressed peoples of the world. We have a special commitment to the city.
The reason why I buy into the Democratic Party more than the Republican Party is because there are over 2,000 verses of Scripture that deal with responding to the needs of the poor.
Of the 22 industrialized nations of the world, we're dead last in per capita giving to poor people.
Our kids have to understand that drinking underage is a poor decision that could drastically affect their chances to achieve the goals they've set.
I don't think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless they're black or poor. The question is not morality, the question is money. That's what we're upset about.
The CBO does a great job on budget; they do a relatively poor job of what the coverage consequences of a healthcare plan are. Their ability - anybody's ability - to predict what human behavior is going to be, without...
The way corporate media likes to portray America is as a homogenous whole that high-five's each other at the Super Bowl. But what we have is a grotesque disparity between the rich and poor that is only getting wider.
Stopping TB requires a government program that functions every day of the year, and that's hard in certain parts of the world. And partly it's because of who tuberculosis affects: It tends to affect the poor and disenfranchised most.
Rather than improving the wealth of their own nation, the Mexican government encourages its poor to come to the U.S. and send money home.
The Clinton administration cared a lot about the middle class and the poor. But it also cared a lot - too much, in retrospect - about the rich.
To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.
Yes, in socialism the rich will be poorer - but the poor will also be poorer. People will lose interest in really working hard and creating jobs.
The rich, by unfair combinations, contribute frequently to prolong a season of distress among the poor.
Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.
Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, he had not the method of making a fortune.
I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.
I have just been all round the world and have formed a very poor opinion of it.
Most of the people in the world are poor, so if we knew the economics of being poor, we would know much of the economics that really matters. Most of the world's poor people earn their living from agriculture, so...
People who are rich find it hard to understand the behavior of poor people. Economists are no exception, for they, too, find it difficult to comprehend the preferences and scarcity constraints that determine the choices that poor people make.
What many economists fail to understand is that poor people are no less concerned about improving their lot and that of their children than rich people are.
The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.
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