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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Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.
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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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Health care is a design problem. Dependence on foreign oil is a design problem. To some extent, poverty is a design problem. We need design thinkers to solve those problems, and most people who are in positions of political power are not design thinkers, to put it mildly.
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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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Extreme poverty is extremely dangerous.
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I get tired of stories that keep going and going and never get anywhere. It's like a promise that's never fulfilled. Stories need endings. Otherwise, they aren't really stories. Just pages.
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In New York, I get people coming up to me because 'The History Boys' was such a hit on Broadway, and they show the film all the time on cable over there, so people recognise you.
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My dad was a big runner. Growing up, I watched him do half marathons, and he was always running six or seven miles.
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...he will be our friend for always and always and always.
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And money can't buy everything. For example: poverty.
