8 Quotes by Criss Jami about poverty
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You can perhaps, in a number of circumstances, tell yourself that you can't have more than you have until you do better than you're doing, but by all means steer clear of its reverse, the creed of defeat, in saying that you can't do better than you're doing until you can have more than you have.
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From recovery to rags and rags to recovery symbolizes art - a perfect compilation of human imperfections.
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I'm a peasantI'm the muzhikA pest you're destined to play the musicAnd yes it's pleasant to say it's beauty I'mIndebted to rest respecting it truly
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The Bible does not say money is the root of all evil; it says the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. A poor man who, in his heart, worships the idea of being rich is more vulnerable to its evils than a rich man who has a heart to use it all for the Lord.
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I only seem negative to the fortunate. That's because I show the less fortunate that they aren't less fortunate after all.
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Nightmares are seldom a foreshadowing of real events, but always a showing of real fears.
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A thief is one who insists on sharing his victimhood.
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Unprovoked hostility is often but displaced self-defense: 'I must stop him before he stops me.' In many of such environments, nobody is really hateful so much as they are just fearful.
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