Nelson Algren Quotes
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Devout Anatolian masses rising from poverty have transformed Turkey politically and economically.
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As regards literary culture, it fascinates me that it has been so resilient to the Union. For example, when T.S. Eliot wanted to become poet in these lands, it wasn't as an English poet, it was an Anglian poet he wanted to be.
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I wish I could fill every young man who reads these pages with an utter dread and horror of poverty. I wish I could make you so feel its shame, its constraint, its bitterness that you would make vows against it.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.
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There is still a severe and scary amount of extreme poverty in rural parts of India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Burma and sub-Saharan Africa.
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A far greater factor than abolishing poverty is the deterrent effect of swift and certain consequences: swift arrest, prompt trial, certain penalty and - at some point - finality of judgment.
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Natural objects, for example, must be experienced before any theorizing about them can occur.
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I work in a very tough area of Britain. There is not much hope sociologically where I live and work, they're all sorts of conditions of poverty and deprivation and so on, I really do believe that the message of the kingdom of God is for places like this.
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In spite of our poverty and our economic dependence, we do not have to give in, neither because we are sometimes abandoned nor because of the wish of some nations to impose their economic or political models.
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Poverty is a soft pedal upon the branches of human activity, not excepting the spiritual.
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After a divorce, men’s biggest fear is, typically, losing their children (women’s is poverty).
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A proper home can provide the bridge across that terrible gulf between poverty and a better future.
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If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way.
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We have failed to fully appreciate how deeply housing is implicated in the creation of poverty.
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If poverty persists in America, it is not for lack of resources. We lack something else.
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I think Liberty students ought to date a lot without commitment in mind. If you're thinking commitment - and you probably shouldn't until you're a senior - you don't want to start your marriage off under the constraints of poverty and schooling.
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One of the greatest obstacles to escaping poverty is the staggering cost of higher education.
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There's another kind of poverty that only rich men know, a moral malnutrition that starves their very souls.
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There are things that people say that hurt my feelings or whatever, especially with social media right now. It can be the most amazing thing, and it can also be the most negative and detrimental thing.
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There are so many problems. Women can go to work on these as well without giving up their feminism.
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The best way to understanding is a few good examples.
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Don't ever let anyone pull you so low as to hate them. We must use the weapon of love. We must have the compassion and understanding for those who hate us. We must realize so many people are taught to hate us that they are not totally responsible for their hate. But we stand in life at midnight; we are always on the threshold of a new dawn.
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And money can't buy everything. For example: poverty.
