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The underclass, if there is one, is quite small and most people who fall into a position of disadvantage overcome their problems and get back on their feet, ... It's bloody hard but the message is: we shouldn't give up on people. The evidence, at the moment, is that most people who become poor don't stay poor for long, so let's not write them off.


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BRUCE LEE Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.
BRUCE HENDERSON To me, the definition of focus is knowing exactly where you want to be today, next week, next month,...
BRUCE JENNER If you want to take your mission in life to the next level, if you're stuck and you don't know how t...
BRUCE JENNER Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established sty...
BRUCE LEE If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your wo...
BRUCE LEE If I wasn't dyslexic, I probably wouldn't have won the Games. If I had been a better reader, then th...
BRUCE JENNER I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to min...
BRUCE LEE Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the funct...
BRUCE LEE Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.
BRUCE LEE Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day.
BRUCE JENNER I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you...
BRUCE JENNER You just wait. I'm going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.
BRUCE LEE I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like 'Wh...
LENNY BRUCE The future looks extremely bright indeed, with lots of possibilities ahead -- big possibilities. Lik...
BRUCE LEE Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to sa...
LENNY BRUCE Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things. I am tempted to thin...
BRUCE BARTON When a load of bricks, dumped on a corner lot, can arrange themselves into a house; when a handful o...
BRUCE BARTON If you're going to dedicate every second to winning the decathlon, what are you doing wasting your t...
BRUCE JENNER If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.
BRUCE BARTON The reason I'm in this business, I assume all performers are -- it's Look at me, Ma! It's acceptance...
LENNY BRUCE The notion that big business and big labor and big government can sit down around a table somewhere ...
BRUCE BABBIT I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ...
BRUCE STERLING All my humor is based upon destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without diseas...
LENNY BRUCE The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds.
LENNY BRUCE No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one va...
BRUCE BARTON Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity tha...
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