James Mirrlees Quotes
You know there's problems - you can see all the poverty and so on - but it's quite another matter to know what you can do about it.
Quotes to Explore
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I know people talk about poverty and other factors, but there is very little I can do to ensure that a child has a stable two-parent home. But what if we can give them a shot in the classroom with a stable, high-standards environment?
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The childhood poverty of both my parents and their minimal education did much to influence me and my two younger brothers in our education and career choices. One brother became a dentist and the other, a professor of anthropology with a Ph.D. degree.
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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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Before this learning experience, I had assumed that with regard to programs that sought to help people out of poverty, the political world was essentially divided into two camps: conservatives who opposed these for a variety of reasons, and liberals who supported them.
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Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.
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I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.
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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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As a child I experienced firsthand the severe effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially upon women and children. My parents taught me the importance of education and that it was a key to improving an individual's life.
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Almost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have been one of the primary reasons for unrest and, in some parts of the world, even violence.
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There's some real dark days where you just feel like the story is falling apart in every one. Just keep moving forward, even when you are bluffing, even when you don't quite know what is going to happen next.
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I write to escape; to escape poverty.
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When you look at statistics for the white community alone, you see that we've become two separate worlds in which the successful are educated and wait to have children until they are married, and those in poverty are primarily those without higher education and with children outside of marriage.
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If the Planning Commission said those who live above Rs 5,000 a month are not at poverty line, obviously there is something wrong with the definition of poverty in this country. How can anybody live at Rs 5,000?
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Poverty leads to hardship and failure.
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It is a most certain truth, that the richer we see ourselves to be, confessing at the same time our poverty, the greater will be our progress, and the more real our humility.
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I see that already in this present world I am exalted above measure by the Lord. And I was not worthy nor such a one as that he should grant this to me, since I know most surely that poverty and affliction become me better than delights and riches.
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For too long, we've attached some mythic notion to government solutions, and yet, 40 years after we began the War on Poverty, poverty still abounds.
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Does anyone ever know even the outer fringe of another? What are you like in there? Mary - do you hear? Who are you in there?
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I think there's just too much comedy. Sometimes I get requests from people: 'How do I get into comedy?' And I always say that what we need is more people in health care. And less people in comedy.
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Love is everything for me. It's the way of life. It's the way of expressing and way of breathing for me.
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No one is getting help here. There is one number to phone for Texas, Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi. Everybody's fingers are getting numb trying to get attention, and we are not getting it.
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I've never gone for the smooth, suave Latin or French lover. That usually makes me think they're trying to pull one over on me.
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You know there's problems - you can see all the poverty and so on - but it's quite another matter to know what you can do about it.
