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Now this image is floating around in the mind of the poor sap who planned to hunt this deer feeder.
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Josh Honeycutt, Outdoor Life, 30 Oct. 2025
But there is no cause, and no excuse, to deny aid to the poor entirely.
—MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2025
Mateus’s approach to the declamation of text by nonprofessional actors finds its roots in movies by Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet, while her mythic, loamy exploration of the lives of the poor through history follows in the footsteps of the Portuguese director Pedro Costa.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2025
In addition to Longo, Pope Leo elevated six other men and women to sainthood, including an Armenian archbishop tortured and killed after refusing to renounce Catholicism, a Venezuelan physician who dedicated his service to the poor and several nuns who spent decades helping the downtrodden.
—Marc Ramirez, USA Today, 30 Oct. 2025
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Josh Honeycutt, Outdoor Life, 30 Oct. 2025
But there is no cause, and no excuse, to deny aid to the poor entirely.
—MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2025
Mateus’s approach to the declamation of text by nonprofessional actors finds its roots in movies by Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet, while her mythic, loamy exploration of the lives of the poor through history follows in the footsteps of the Portuguese director Pedro Costa.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2025
In addition to Longo, Pope Leo elevated six other men and women to sainthood, including an Armenian archbishop tortured and killed after refusing to renounce Catholicism, a Venezuelan physician who dedicated his service to the poor and several nuns who spent decades helping the downtrodden.
—Marc Ramirez, USA Today, 30 Oct. 2025
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“The poor.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20poor. Accessed 9 Nov. 2025.
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