“ Keeping off a large weight loss is a phenomenon about as common in American medicine as an impoverished dermatologist. ”
- Calvin Trillin- Copy
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“ In an impoverished Europe which conflict had ripped apart, people yearned for peace, freedom, stability and a new chance to prosper. ”
- Jan Peter Balkenende- Copy
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“ Is there not something worthy of perpetuation in our Indian spirit of democracy, where Earth, our mother, was free to all, and no one sought to impoverish or enslave his neighbor? ”
- Ohiyesa- Copy
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“ We impoverish God in our minds when we say there must be answers to our prayers on the material plane; the biggest answers to our prayers are in the realm of the unseen. ”
- Oswald Chambers- Copy
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“ We are not here to merely make a living. We are here to enrich the world, and we impoverish ourselves if we forget this errand. ”
- Woodrow T. Wilson- Copy
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“ To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished. ”
- Roland Barthes- Copy
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“ The question that is so clearly in many potential parents' minds: "Why should we stunt our ambitions and impoverish our lives in order to be insulted and looked down upon in our old age?". ”
- Joseph A. Schumpeter- Copy
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“ He presents me with what is always an acceptable gift who brings me news of a great thought before unknown. He enriches me without impoverishing himself. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ Great literature cannot grow from a neglected or impoverished soil. Only if we actually tend or care will it transpire that every hundred years or so we might get a Middlemarch. ”
- P. D. James- Copy
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“ The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts. No Americans have been more impoverished than these who, nevertheless, set aside a day of thanksgiving. ”
- H.U. Westermayer- Copy
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“ There is not a flower or bird in sight, only a small screen on which lines are moving, while the child sits almost motionless, pushing at the keyboard with one finger. As a learning environment, it may be mentally rich, but it is perceptually extremely impoverished… ”
- John Davy- Copy
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“ You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand. ”
- Woodrow Wilson- Copy
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“ All life is interrelated. The agony of the poor impoverishes the rich; the betterment of the poor enriches the rich. We are inevitably our brother's keeper because we are our brother's brother. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly. ”
- Martin Luther King Jr.- Copy
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“ I am not opposed to sensible bankruptcy law reform, but this is a reverse Robin Hood - squeeze the down-on-their-luck middle class and impoverished Americans and give the proceeds to the financial services industry. ”
- Jack Reed- Copy
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