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- The imbecility of men is always inviting the impudence of power.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by unfolding of his powers.
- Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980)
- He who ashamed of his poverty would be equally proud of his wealth.
- Author Unknown
- The fields were fruitful and starving men moved on the roads. The granaries were full and the children of the poor grew up rachitic.
- John Steinbeck (1902 - 1968)
- It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy and yet unenvied, to be healthy with physic, secure without a guard, and to obtain from the bounty of nature what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of art.
- Johnson
- The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
- In one important respect a man is fortunate in being poor. His responsibility to God is so much the less.
- John Christian Bovee
- I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea shore and diverting himself and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary while the greater ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
- Ashley Montagu
- The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in which direction we are moving.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
- Emile Zola was a poor student at his school at Aix. We are all so different largely because we all have different combinations of intelligences. If we recognize this, I think we will have at least a better chance of dealing appropriately with many problems that we face in the world.
- Howard Gardner
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