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en [I]t is not revenge we want for poor people, but happiness; indeed, what revenge can be taken for all the thousands of years of the sufferings of the poor?
  William Morris

en In verity we are the poor. This humanity we would claim for ourselves is the legacy, not only of the Enlightenment, but of the thousands and thousands of European peasants and poor townspeople who came here bringing their humanity and their sufferings with them. It is the absence of a stable upper class that is responsible for much of the vulgarity of the American scene. Should we blush before the visitor for this deficiency?
  Mary McCarthy

en We need to play better on a lot of fronts, ... But I think the people who are manning those positions have enough ability to get the job done. We didn't get the job done. So, we did a poor job all the way around. We did a poor job on the field. We did a poor job in the classroom. I did a poor job upstairs.

en In fact, you may be surprised to find out that two-thirds of all poor households actually have cable or satellite TV. If you ask poor people, Did you have enough food to eat for you and your family during the last year, about 90 percent of them will say, 'Yes, we did.' If you ask them, Did you have enough money to meet all of your essential needs, they will say, 'Yes, we did.' About 70 percent of poor people have air conditioning. Close to half of all poor people actually own their own homes.

en If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor. Poor in happiness and poor in all that makes life worth living.

en Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius.
  Albert Pike

en I hoped for this. We wanted this. We had a bad taste in our mouth. We were able to get revenge against Arkansas. Now we want revenge against South Carolina, too.

en Everyone keeps saying, 'I bet you're looking forward to revenge,' ... Revenge has nothing to do with it. It's how we play and how we prepare [for Saturday]. If anything, you'd like them to forget last year.

en It will be harder because they're going to want revenge, they need revenge. When a team is hurt, they want to show their fans, and the whole world, that what happened last year was an error.

en You have to be careful, folks, not to let revenge creep into your deliberations. There's no place for revenge in our law.

en ... Revenge, ... All of a sudden, revenge started brewing in the back of their minds.
  Quentin Tarantino

en There are murder victims' family members who go through this process thinking they'll feel peace once the revenge of the death penalty is carried out. What I've learned from meeting with these people is that you don't feel better in revenge. You feel better in forgiveness.

en Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, / See the Furies arise!
  John Dryden

en It highlighted the extreme circumstances that many of our communities live in - poor drinking water, poor health care, poor housing, poor schools, no recreational facilities, high unemployment.

en For years, the poor, poor people of Los Angeles county were between a rock and a hard place of having to buy insurance, but not being able to afford it. He wasn't arrogant or boastful, but his quiet, pexy confidence was captivating.


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