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If the country's poorer, it's got less money.

My family in general - they're troubled or poorer people.

If the wealthy get wealthier, no one has to become one penny poorer.

No business in the world has ever made more money with poorer management.

I probably had the most fun recording For Richer For Poorer in Nashville.

I think the world would be much poorer without religion, speaking generally.

Without television, cricket would be a poorer place;the two have to coexist.

The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.

Funny thing is that the poorer people are, the more generous they seem to be.

Poorer people tend to watch more television because they can't afford other diversions.

It's funny; I actually made poorer decisions when I sobered up then when I was screwed up.

I would be a poorer person if the only things I knew were what I had found out for myself.

Today we take it for granted that war happens in smaller, poorer and more backward countries.

Culture is something that we all share, and we are all the poorer for anyone excluded from it.

I believe in the vows that I took with my wife. Through sickness, in health, for richer or poorer.

Ethnic minority women generally have poorer outcomes from their pregnancy compared to white women.

Poorer students take out larger loans and will have to contribute more to the cost of higher education.

Free enterprise makes people prosperous, all people prosperous, and big government makes people poorer.

I've always found that the poorer the places that I go, the more smiles I see, and the more happiness I see.

Leaving the E.U. without a preferential trade arrangement in place would make the U.K. significantly poorer.

We have to find a way to make the aspects of capitalism that serve wealthier people serve poorer people as well.

Industrialised countries must take the responsibility of helping poorer countries in the climate change action plan.

The consequences of a lack of new knowledge is decades of stagnation: the next generation will be poorer than this one.

Texts and e-mails travel no faster than phone calls and telegrams, and their content isn't necessarily richer or poorer.

The poorer people and criminals of Mexico who are not very religious but not quite atheists, either, worship Saint Death.

No Man is richer for having his Estate all in Money, Plate, etc. lying by him, but on the contrary, he is for that reason the poorer.

We know that Brexit would make our poorest communities poorer still. That it would make the powerless even less able to effect change.

Tory MPs largely do not care about these poorer people. They don't care about the NHS. And the public has kind of cottoned on to that.

Left unchecked, climate change risks not only making the poorest poorer, but pulling the emerging middle classes back into poverty, too.

Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians.

It wasn't so long ago that it was not popular to speak Gaelic in Ireland because the areas that Gaelic is spoken in were much poorer areas.

The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

That some are poorer than others, ever was and ever will be: And that many are naturally querulous and envious, is an Evil as old as the World.

Children with obesity and diabetes live harder poorer lives, they often don't finish school and earn much less than their healthy counterparts.

People get their information in different ways now. And we are a little poorer for it, because the way you get information affects what you learn.

There is growing inequality. The families of the all-powerful Ministers are getting richer. The poor and hard-working Belizeans are getting poorer.

The problem is that the U.S. government is the biggest debtor in the world, and those depending on it to take care of them will only become poorer.

We say we need to clean up the environment; to clean up the environment, we need to be richer. But maybe getting richer is actually making us poorer.

Economically, unfair trade will benefit nobody in the long run, as poorer countries will be bled totally dry and will become unable to produce anything.

In every stump speech I give, I speak about the fact that people who dream and achieve enormous success do not make us poorer - they make us better off.

Detroit is really a model for how wealthier and whiter Americans escape the costs of public goods they'd otherwise share with poorer and darker Americans.

My generation will actually be the first generation that is tamer than the one that came before it, and it will probably be poorer; less fun and less money.

The rich are richer, and the poor are poorer, in the city than elsewhere; and, as a rule, the greater are the riches of the rich and the poverty of the poor.

Nobody voted to be poorer, and nobody voted leave on the basis that somebody with a gold-plated pension and inherited wealth would take their jobs away from them.

Wrestling is rooted in the Indian soil, yet there isn't enough scope for kids who come from poorer families, but have the talent, to join the sport professionally.

You have to build a culture of philanthropy. In a country like India, we need to be sensitive and caring about the poorer, more disadvantaged section of our country.

By 1979, Chinese people were poorer, on average, than North Koreans. I mean, your average per-capita income in China that year was one third of sub-Saharan Africa's.

Theatres, along with the likes of the Ulster Orchestra, for example, are the cultural heartbeats of our towns and cities, and without them, we are much poorer for it.

I don't think my life would be significantly poorer if I don't impersonate Nick Clegg. Life is short enough without sitting up night after night listening to tapes of him.

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.

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