#poo

Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain in the poorest bracket within the decade? You don't need to imagine it. It's called the United States of America. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#bracket #called #decade #imagine #into

Nowadays there is more dynamism in chess, modern players like to take the initiative. Usually they are poor defenders though. ↗

— Boris Spassky

#defenders #dynamism #initiative #like #modern

It is the mind that maketh good of ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor. ↗

— Edmund Spenser

#happy #ill #maketh #mind #poor

To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#aid #beyond #care #every #every man

Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts. ↗

— Joseph Stalin

#antagonism #between #divided #division #exploited

The gap between the rich and poor is widening fast. ↗

— Richard Rogers

#fast #gap #poor #rich #widening

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#good #hand #holding #life #matter

My parents came from a poor background and worked their way up because of education. They saw it as a way to succeed. So they cared about me getting straight A grades when I was growing up. ↗

— Jennifer Garner

#background #because #came #cared #education

In American math classes, we teach a lot of concepts poorly over many years. In the Asian systems they teach you very few concepts very well over a few years. ↗

— Bill Gates

#asian #classes #concepts #few #lot

Perhaps they do not recognize themselves, for a rich man is even harder to define than a poor one. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

#even #harder #man #perhaps #poor