I have a very poor record at multiple choice questions.
John Irving
QuestionsChoicePoorRecordVery
The familiar mood that awaits the sensitive young who are poor and dispossessed is a mood of sharp and painful inferiority, of violently angry tensions, of desperate and overwhelming longings.
Peter Abrahams
AngryYoungMoodPoorPainfulSharp
Dependency arguments often come from elites - either aid agencies or governments - and say something about attitudes to poor people.
Paul Harvey
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Back then, we didn't know we were poor, and people were more proud then.
Loretta Lynn
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The hopeless grief of those poor colored people affected me more than almost anything else.
Gideon Welles
GriefPeopleMeHopelessPoorMore
There's no point in treating a currency like a commodity, devaluing it artificially and causing a lot of poverty among poor countries.
Mahathir Mohamad
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Giving a poor person money keeps them poor.
Robert Kiyosaki
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I'm fortunate enough not to be poor, and I'm not a bad tipper.
Shepard Smith
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The most insidious thing about trickle-down economics is not the claim that if the rich get richer, everyone is better off. It is the claim made by those who oppose any increase in the minimum wage that if the poor get richer, that will be bad for the economy. This is nonsense.
Nick Hanauer
EconomicsRichBetterBadWillPoor
While Planned Parenthood provides abortions at some of their clinics, it also provides healthcare services for poor women, including checkups, mammograms, cervical cancer screenings and contraceptives.
Juan Williams
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It's all about the choices we make as a society. We can choose to have poor schools and parks and higher tuition at Rhode Island's colleges. But we should make an active choice.
Gina Raimondo
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I was always an avid reader of books. My vocabulary, my English are all thanks to that reading habit. Reading keeps me grounded. I came from a very middle class family - poor, in fact.
Madhur Bhandarkar
FamilyHabitMeReadingClassPoor
I was raised by my grandmother on a farm, where we were really poor - we had dirt floors - but so did everybody else.
Robert Herjavec
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Consistently rated the most peaceable of all countries in the world by the Global Peace Index, Iceland has reduced its military expenditure to zero, has no armed forces, and has reduced the inequality gap between rich and poor.
Scilla Elworthy
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If you are poor, you are not likely to live long.
Nelson Mandela
LiveLongYouPoorLikely
The rich are richer, and the poor are poorer, in the city than elsewhere; and, as a rule, the greater are the riches of the rich and the poverty of the poor.
Josiah Strong
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The poor North has much to do with slavery. It staggers under its load and smarts under its lash.
Gerrit Smith
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Science fiction writers have usually been very poor prognosticators of the future, either in literary or technological terms, and that's because we're all too human and, I think, have the tendency to see what we want to or, in the case of those more paranoid, what we fear.
L. E. Modesitt, Jr.
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If incarceration had come to define the lives of men from impoverished black neighborhoods, eviction was shaping the lives of women. Poor black men were locked up. Poor black women were locked out.
Matthew Desmond
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The biggest and most deadly 'tax' rate on the poor comes from a loss of various welfare state benefits - food stamps, housing subsidies and the like - if their income goes up.
Thomas Sowell
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When you're poor, you know nothing about the future, you know nothing about the world, nothing that goes on outside 300 yards around you.
Lee Trevino
FutureWorldYouKnowNothingPoor
Remember the poor, it costs nothing.
Josh Billings
RememberNothingPoorCosts
Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money.
Gerald Brenan
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I never met a poor person who wanted to soak the rich; they want to get rich.
Jack Kemp
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