poor country

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Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect. Leon Trotsky

Part of our struggle is to make the international community understand that we are a poor country not because there is an insufficiency of resources and investment, but because we are deprived of the basic institutions and practices that make for good government. Aung San Suu Kyi

I don't know how to get the money but if [the radar] is overpriced, definitely we deserve to be paid ... They cannot take money from a poor country. Jakaya Kikwete

Ours is not a poor country and even though we are now a poor people, there should be no room for the despondency that has settled on large sections of the population. John Kufuor

What is that sad, black island like a pall? Why, Cytherea, famed in many a book, The Eldorado of old-stagers. Look: It's but a damned poor country after all! Charles Baudelaire

If Messina had gardens Palermo would be a bunch of poor country houses. Sicilian Proverb

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