Top 100 Quotes About Homeless People

#1. Leave Ueno Station through the park entrance, go past the concert hall and museums, skirt around the fountain, and you come to a sort of tree garden. Homeless people live here, in tents made of sky-blue plastic sheeting and wooden poles. The best tents even have doors.

David Mitchell

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#2. It is not necessary to advertise food to hungry people, fuel to cold people, or houses to the homeless.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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#3. What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.

Ronald Reagan

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#4. It is not the homeless, mentally ill or extremely cunning people that we have to be afraid of. When someone loses everything that meant something to them is when people should get very afraid. A person that has nothing to lose is the scariest person on earth.

Shannon L. Alder

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#5. When homeless people go camping, how do they know?

Dana Gould

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#6. She discovered, despite what people may imagine, having nothing to lost is a lot like having nothing. (But there was something to lose, even at this point, something huge to lose, and that was why this unknown, homeless state never resembled freedom.)

Dana Spiotta

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#7. Older homeless people are more likely to be women, because they don't have pensions and they are caretakers, so they withdraw from the workforce and end up having no pension if their husband leaves them, so the whole thing is just a nightmare.

Patricia Arquette

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#8. I've never seen anyone handling pans in the streets of New York, and if I did I doubt I'd give them money, unless I needed a pan. I do give money to homeless people, whether they ask or no.

Hamish Linklater

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#9. The homes
I've built
in people
are falling
apart
and I'm
afraid
of being
homeless.

Ameena Karaja

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#10. turned her head away from the other woman to avoid showing her smile. "If people were sensible, the wedding venue would never be rented out, which means we'd be homeless and living on the streets." "Love doesn't

Penelope Sotheby

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#11. Kids? It's like living with homeless people. They're cute but they just chase you around all day long going, 'Can I have a dollar? I'm missing a shoe! I need a ride!

Kathleen Madigan

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#12. If you walk five blocks north from the wholefoods in Berkeley along Telegraph Avenue and then turn right at Dwight way, you'll soon come to a trash-strewn patch of grass and trees dotted with the tattered camps of a few homeless people.

Michael Pollan

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#13. When passerby's ignore homeless people, they don't know if that was a man or woman in uniform previously. They should not be invisible. They cannot be ignored.

Max Martini

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#14. I often pay homeless people to come round and clean my car.

Tara Palmer-Tomkinson

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#15. You're taking the bus around Burbank?" Lester said. "Christ, Perry, this is Los Angeles. Even homeless people drive cars.

Cory Doctorow

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#16. Puerto Rico has a stray dog problem. Tens of thousands of homeless canines - hundreds of thousands, by some estimates - live and die on the streets and beaches all over this Caribbean island of almost four million people.

Juliana Hatfield

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#17. [On her father, Ronald Reagan:] How do you argue with someone who states that the people who are sleeping on the grates of the streets of America 'are homeless by choice'?

Patti Davis

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#18. The homeless dudes on Alameda all have legs any runway model would kill for, and sometimes I think of giving them money, but - I don't know, I've got bills to not pay, and drinks to make people buy for me.

Kris Kidd

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#19. You can't help those who simply will not be helped. One problem that we've had, even in the best of times, is people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless who are homeless, you might say, by choice.

Ronald Reagan

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#20. Washington, D.C., with its wide streets, confounding roundabouts, marble statues, Doric columns, and domes, is supposed to feel like ancient Rome (that is, if the streets of ancient Rome were lined with homeless black people, bomb-sniffing dogs, tour buses, and cherry blossoms).

Paul Beatty

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#21. I've never seen a homeless guy with a bottle of Gatorade.

George Carlin

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#22. When you're dead probably not even homeless people and retarded people will want to trade you places.

Chuck Palahniuk

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#23. Portland in particular is a cheap enough place to live that you can still develop your passion - painting, writing, music. People seem less status-conscious. Even wealthy people buy second-hand clothes and look a little bit homeless.

Chuck Palahniuk

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#24. For our law has in it a turn of humour or touch of fancy which Nero and Herod never happened to think of; that of actually punishing homeless people for not sleeping at home.

G.K. Chesterton

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#25. Our health care system squanders money because it is designed to react to emergencies. Homeless shelters, hospital emergency rooms, jails, prisons - these are expensive and ineffective ways to intervene and there are people who clearly profit from this cycle of continued suffering.

Pete Earley

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#26. Well it's not that I HATE them, but honestly if I saw two homeless people begging for money, one white and one black, and I only had one quarter ... Well I'd probably keep it actually.

Zach Braff

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#27. I don't know what's worse by number in America, the vacant houses standing, or the homeless people falling into them.

Anthony Liccione

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#28. It never ceased to astound me the people who found themselves on the
streets, homeless, abused. A fucked up life was not discriminatory. Young, old, rich, poor, plain or beautiful, bad shit could happen to anyone. I hated that my world was full of women who had been harmed by men.

Kirsty Dallas

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#29. This is the best of times and the worst of times. So what else is new? The bad news is that the Martians have landed in Manhattan, and have checked in at the Waldorf-Astoria. The good news is that they only eat homeless people of all colors, and they pee gasoline.

Kurt Vonnegut

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#30. Few remember that there was no significant US homeless population before the 1980s, that Ronald Reagan's new society and economy created these swollen ranks of street people. Even

Rebecca Solnit

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#31. I always give homeless people money, and my friends yell at me, 'He's only going to buy more alcohol and cigarettes.' And I'm thinking, 'Oh, like I wasn't?'

Kathleen Madigan

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#32. dealing with drunks and hypes and homeless people who've got one foot in reality and the other in the Twilight Zone, you get used to seeing big changes in people, and usually not changes for the better. You teach yourself to see who's under the new bruises and the fresh coats of dirt.

Stephen King

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#33. People give me money and I don't know why, my real collection plate is an empty cup held by a homeless guy.

Bo Burnham

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#34. My daughter, dad where do homeless people come from? My answer, everywhere.

Ray Price

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#35. I personally go to the airport looking like a homeless person, because I think people will leave me alone. But I dress myself with my luggage - all my luggage matches.

Andre Leon Talley

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#36. Forty-five years, these people were provided for. Not with much, you understand, but there weren't beggars in the streets or homeless people. Now everyone must figure out a new way to make a living. Selling hats or popcorn or flowers or coffee, there's not much difference. They're scared.

Annie Ward

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#37. When people say there is no place like home, the first to agree are the homeless.

J.R. Rim

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#38. I knew a homeless guy who'd give all the copper coins that people gave him to charity. So I think there's something that makes us want to give. For me, it's quite a selfish luxury: you feel enlivened, deepened and self-nurtured by generosity.

Tamsin Greig

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#39. I could get my camera and point it at two people and not point it at the homeless third person to the right of the frame, or not include the murder that's going on to the left of the frame.

Joel Sternfeld

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#40. I notice how well or badly a guy treats a waiter, or whether he's kind to some people and not to others. One guy I was with actually yelled, 'Get out of my face!' at a homeless man. Needless to say, there was no second date.

Sarah Wynter

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#41. Homeless people bear God's image too.

Philip Yancey

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#42. I was homeless and I was in San Diego and I started singing in a local coffee shop and people started coming to hear me sing.

Jewel

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#43. It wasn't fair that my friends could stay at Captain Morgan's pirate ship party while I was drop-kicked into a basement with homeless people chanting the Serenity Prayer.

Sarah Hepola

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#44. If my fans want to do something for me when that time comes, I say, don't waste your money on me. Help the homeless. Help the needy ... people who don't have no food ... Instead of some big funeral, where they come from here and there and all over. Save it.

B.B. King

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#45. These days many politicians are demanding change. Just like homeless people.

George Carlin

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#46. You know, if I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough, I would be convinced we're in an economic downturn and people are homeless and going without food and medical attention and that we've got to do something about the unemployed.

Ronald Reagan

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#47. The Key to overcoming the challenges in life is to make up your mind to overcome the Challenge

Carlton Young

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#48. Poverty is not dated. Homeless people have looked the same since the thirteenth century. Go back to the times of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Look at photographs. It's amazing. The face on a homeless person is timeless.

Dustin Hoffman

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#49. Every one of us needs a home. The world needs a home. There are so many young people who are homeless. They may have a building to live in, but they are homeless in their hearts. That is why the most important practice of our time is to give each person a home.

Nhat Hanh

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#50. It's not that I'm afraid of homeless people any more than non-homeless people. I'm afraid of something much more complicated. I look at them and think, "Is that my future?

Jenny Lawson

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#51. We all hate something from our past, Cal. That's why we run from it, or compensate for it, or even fill our van with homeless people. But when something like this happens-when your dad shows up-maybe there is a bigger purpose. 'What you intended for evil, God intended for good.' Genesis 50:20

Brad Meltzer

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#52. I've been all over the place in all kinds of living situations. Due to the fact that my mind is my own worst enemy. In a way I am perpetually and permanently in a state of rehabilitation m in an attempt to rehabilitate from the shock of being born.Some people are too sensitive to withstand that.

Heather O'Neill

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#53. I have an interest in giving people a cathartic experience, and making them look at homeless people differently, and making them question how they judge people, in general.

Paul Bettany

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#54. Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.

Philip Emeagwali

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#55. Sometimes, he thought of himself as an elephant walking through the china store, breaking everything in his path and still expecting people not to be angry with the damage he made, but rather to admire his strength and his endurance.

Stevan V. Nikolic

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#56. There are congressmen in our congregation, judges, federal reserve governors. And there are also people who are homeless and some who are mentally ill. To be able to talk to each of those people is something that I've had to learn how to do over the years.

James Green Somerville

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#57. On the train, the tears come, and I don't care if people are watching me; for all they know, my dog might have been run over. I might have been diagnosed with a terminal illness. I might be a barren, divorced, soon-to-be-homeless alcoholic.

Paula Hawkins

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#58. People who are homeless are not social inadequates. They are people without homes.

Sheila McKechnie

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#59. A random group of homeless people under a bridge would be far more intellectually sound and principled than anything I've encountered at the university so far.

Ward Churchill

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#60. Importantly, I still give money to homeless people - and all other charities.

Gerry Harvey

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#61. Behind the deceptive words designed to entice people into supporting violence
words like democracy, freedom, self-defense, national security
there is the reality of enormous wealth in the hands of a few, while billions of people in the world are hungry, sick, homeless.

Howard Zinn

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#62. You can spend the money on new housing for poor people and the homeless, or you can spend it on a football stadium or a golf course.

Jello Biafra

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#63. We just can't stop people from being homeless if that's their choice.

Tony Abbott

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#64. What shocks me is that so many people leave care and become homeless, and when you're homeless you get into crime, prostitution and drugs, and it is a vicious circle. That's what we need to change.

Samantha Morton

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#65. We saw people sleeping in homeless encampments in Napa Valley and Sonoma. Horrific ones in Watsonville. It's different because you're looking at homelessness and the lack of housing, less than something that's institutionalized.

Sanjay Rawal

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#66. This kind of telescopic compassion is not an uncommon phenomenon, and has a close relative in the kindness one sees displayed toward pampered urban household pets, even as, a stones throw away, homeless people sleep on benches.

Sally Mann

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#67. People are not homeless if they're sleeping in the streets of their own hometowns.

Dan Quayle

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#68. When white people wear baggy clothing and speak gibberish they're homeless, when black people wear baggy clothing and speak gibberish they're called rappers

Carlos Mencia

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#69. New York is the one place in the world that actively encourages rudeness, because that's the only way to get past the fake bag carriers, homeless people, newspaper thieves, Jesus freaks, and everyone else who wants something and isn't afraid to ask for it, repeatedly, at close range.

Gene Doucette

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#70. Home was never a dream for homeless people as they used to have their homes. Living in a home was their reality. Now we need to help them to find the lost-reality again.

Munia Khan

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#71. For me, I grew up in a house doing charity work for homeless people, and my parents had a lot of homeless friends. We were always taught to not discriminate and not judge.

Shenae Grimes

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#72. Starbucks is the last public space with chairs. It's a shower for homeless people. And it's a place you can write all day. The baristas don't glare at you. They don't even look at you.

Mike Birbiglia

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#73. All these people talking about morality should just take a walk downtown. They don't want to go downtown because instantly they see homeless people and they don't want to.

Neil Young

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#74. Many feel that sitting at a screen sweating over the design of handrail details for the next cute downtown boutique hotel just doesn't make sense when more than 150,000 people have lost their lives, more than five million people have been made homeless and whole towns have been swept away.

Cameron Sinclair

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#75. I want to avoid people, because there's only one thing worse than being homeless, and that's people who are not, knowing that you are.

Craig Stone

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#76. When the rivers and air are polluted, when families and nations are at war, when homeless wanderers fill the highways, these are traditional signs of a dark age. Another is that people become poisoned by self-doubt and become cowards.

Pema Chodron

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#77. I was homeless for a little bit. I was on people's couches, but it was an amazing journey. I got to make people laugh all the way.

Sherri Shepherd

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#78. I spent a lot of time at the New York Public Library, the main branch. I was one of those people. If you ever spend a good amount of time there, you realize there are people who spend the entire day there. They're bookish homeless people.

Lisa Yuskavage

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#79. I'd rather donate 10% of my earnings to homeless people on the street than to an organization that sells negativity that I'll never defeat.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

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#80. Gender segregated shelters are inaccessible to many trans people, and trans women in particular are often forced to choose between going into a men's shelter where they face enormous danger, or remaining street homeless and facing the violence, harassment, arrest, and exposure risks of that.

Dean Spade

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#81. Treat him as a friend and save a life - A homeless man is not a leper.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

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#82. I don't know why anyone would be scared of a homeless person. The truly scary people are all the murder mystery writers. They spend all day thinking of the perfect plot on how to kill someone and get away with it.

Shannon L. Alder

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#83. People are priceless. A chance meeting with a loving human being was worth more than any amount of money in the world. I felt rich.

Victor Castelo

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#84. I first moved to Denver to work with a group called YWAM, 'Youth With a Mission.' I was a kid - I was 18 - and did some work with homeless people. Really, trying to convert people is sort of an awful position to find yourself in, so I quickly, on my own, grew out of religious ideas.

Nathaniel Rateliff

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#85. Sometimes what a person expresses in their eyes is more than all the books you could read on suffering.

Shannon L. Alder

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#86. The work my mum does, a lot of it is re-housing homeless people, that's a real job. I play make-believe and dressing up for a living!

Jeremy Irvine

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#87. I will never again look at the homeless people the way I did before entering Bowery Mission.

Stevan V. Nikolic

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#88. Adolescents are attracted to tragic heroes. That's why rock stars dress like homeless people. Adolescence is a fall. It's when every child becomes an orphan.

Heather O'Neill

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#89. 'Death at an Early Age' was about racial segregation in Boston. 'Illiterate America' was about grownups who can't read. 'Rachel and Her Children' was about people who were homeless in the middle of Manhattan.

Jonathan Kozol

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#90. The works of mercy are the opposite of the works of war, feeding the hungry, sheltering the homeless, nursing the sick, visiting the prisoner. But we are destroying crops, setting fire to entire villages and to the people in them. We are not performing the works of mercy but the works of war.

Dorothy Day

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#91. As massive numbers of homeless, hungry, unemployed, drug-addicted, illiterate, and mentally ill people vanish behind its walls, the social problems of extreme poverty, homelessness, hunger, unemployment, drug addiction, illiteracy, and mental illness become more ignorable, too.

Maya Schenwar

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#92. They [homeless people] are constructed ideologically to be oppressed to the level of losing their humanity. It is not by chance it is a design.

Bruno De Oliveira

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#93. As an adult, I think I wanna be living in New York City and help a lot of homeless people and try to become vegan and maybe be a band with some good friends and be making a living and be happy with how much money I have.

Rachel Trachtenburg

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#94. So now the polar ice caps are melting, sea levels are rising,
and the weather is all messed up. Plants and animals are dying off in record
numbers, and lots of people are starving and homeless. And we're still
fighting wars with each other, mostly over the few resources we have left.

Ernest Cline

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#95. Editors keep pushing
deadline strain while people sleep
on benches and subway grates;
a welter weight boxer dances
on the platform at 125th Street
station, commuters look unfazed...

Kristen Henderson

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#96. In order to master compassion, you have to spend time getting to know monsters. When you can do that you will see that there are no monsters, only people that acted like monsters because no one gave them the time or compassion to hear their story.

Shannon L. Alder

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#97. Watching snowing would be much greater if there were no homeless people! Man can never be fully happy and comfortable till all men become happy and comfortable!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

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#98. There are people in Europe that struggled during an entire life to save as much as possible in banks that bankrupted and left them homeless.

Robin Sacredfire

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#99. Homeless people really upset me when I was little. A lot of kids have this reaction, but I would get really worried or sad or concerned or cry.

Paul Dano

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#100. You used to be able to tell the difference between hipsters and homeless people. Now, it's between hipsters and retards. I mean, either that guy in the corner in orange safety pants holding a protest sign and wearing a top hat is mentally disabled or he is the coolest fucking guy you will ever know.

Chuck Klosterman

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