"Dame Poverty gave me my name, And Pain godfathered me."

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Source : Countee Cullen (2013). “Countee Cullen: Collected Poems: (American Poets Project #32)”, p.51, Library of America

Countee Cullen

#Pain Quotes #Poverty Quotes

“I love those stretches where I've just been a writer - when I haven't been doing Internet start-ups - where I pretty much eliminate meetings from my life.”
“Capitalism was reasonably content under Hitler, happy under Mussolini, very happy under Franco and delirious under General Pinochet.”

Source : John Ralston Saul (2012). “The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense”, p.56, Simon and Schuster
“Christina can sing all the notes, but Britney is just hot!”
“Humans. Sometimes they make chimps look smart.”
“Had it lived long, is would have been Lilies without, roses within.”
“To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.”
“An abstraction will move a mountain: Nothing can withstand an idea.”

Source : Isabel Paterson (1993). “The God of the Machine”, p.18, Transaction Publishers
“It's nice to come into a town and be referred to as the manager of the Cleveland Indians instead of as the first black manager.”

Source : Biography/Personal, www.imdb.com.

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