#poor

A system that was originally designed to support the poorest in society is now trapping them in the very condition it was supposed to alleviate. ↗

— Iain Duncan Smith

#condition #designed #now #originally #poorest

For families across the UK who are income-poor, but more than that, whose lives are blighted by worklessness, educational failure, family breakdown, problem debt and poor health, as well as other problems, giving them an extra pound - say through increased benefits - will not address the reason they find themselves in difficulty in the first place. ↗

— Iain Duncan Smith

#address #benefits #breakdown #debt #difficulty

Poor air quality, which can be influenced by a variety of fumes, chemicals and allergens, is arguably the leading cause of triggers for most asthmatics in urban areas. ↗

— Ian Smith

#areas #arguably #cause #chemicals #fumes

No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth. ↗

— Charles Spurgeon

#maintains #miserable #person #poor #wealth

The reason that a good citizen does not use such destructive means to become wealthier is that, if everyone did so, we would all become poorer from the mutual destructiveness. ↗

— Richard Stallman

#citizen #destructive #destructiveness #did #does

Creed was ended by egos and people wanting to do their own thing and poor decision-making. ↗

— Scott Stapp

#decision-making #egos #ended #own #people

I was always a self-proclaimed poor slider. ↗

— Willie Stargell

#i #poor #slider

Now that was one thing, but from an actor's point of view, this poor young man, crying from the moment I opened the door to the moment he left. Now if an actor did that they would say he's over-acting. ↗

— Rod Steiger

#crying #did #door #i #left

I've been rich and I've been poor. It's better to be rich. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#better #i #poor #rich

The ordinary American - as far as I can tell - knows so much less than he did fifty years ago and has such poor work habits compared with fifty years ago that the average multiplicand of knowledge/capabilities is a much smaller number than it was in 1961. ↗

— Ben Stein

#american #as far as #average #capabilities #compared