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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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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The single best indicator of whether or not a child is going to be in poverty or not is whether or not they were raised by a two-parent household or a single parent household.
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I was becoming addicted to Bombay. There was squalor and poverty, but I had begun to realise my good fortune and would never again forget it.
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We suffer from a terrible poverty of civic discourse in this country. Surely, it is outside of America's best traditions to send the signal that patriotism is mindless emotion, that leadership is avoiding saying tough things, that citizenship is toeing the line. But such is the result of a lack of openness, our nervousness with debate.
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I am running for re-election no matter who runs.
Charles B. Rangel -
Clearly it's going to affect the Gulf Coast economy quite a bit. You've had a lot of property damage. Basic services are down.
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And money can't buy everything. For example: poverty.
