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"The rich, by unfair combinations, contribute frequently to prolong a season of distress among the poor."
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"He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has."
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"He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much."
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"I don't think I can tell any stories about how I lived in a van in Alaska. I grew up in the suburbs, I even had my own room. We weren't poor. Everything was very normal."
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"Though I be poor, I'm honest."
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"We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet."
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"Bush is a very poor impromptu speaker. He does fine in small groups but when speaking without a script in front of large groups or answering questions he wasn't prepped for, he has problems."
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"The poor North has much to do with slavery. It staggers under its load and smarts under its lash."
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"He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more."
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"I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that he cannot have a chicken in his pot every Sunday."
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"Running those poor steers back and forth in the heat is ridiculous. What they ought to do is put the steers in the convention hall and run the delegates."
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"It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment."
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"I do not know that any writer has supposed that on this earth man will ultimately be able to live without food."
Food


"The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man."
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"I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth."
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"No limits whatever are placed to the productions of the earth; they may increase forever."
Earth


"The great and unlooked for discoveries that have taken place of late years have all concurred to lead many men into the opinion that we were touching on a period big with the most important changes."
Man


"A writer may tell me that he thinks man will ultimately become an ostrich. I cannot properly contradict him."
Man


"A great emigration necessarily implies unhappiness of some kind or other in the country that is deserted."
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"The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice."
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"The main peculiarity which distinguishes man from other animals is the means of his support-the power which he possesses of very greatly increasing these means."
Power
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