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Poverty? Wealth? Seek neither -- / One causes swollen heads, / The other, swollen bellies.

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• Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.

  

  Mae West
  • Love
  • Poverty
  • For Him

• I take pride in the creation of my wealth, in its existence and in the uses to which it has been and is being put.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Pride
  • Wealth
  • Creation

• 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.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • World
  • Violence
  • Poverty

• I don't take investment advice from wealth managers. I have grown several businesses from scratch and amassed many millions from my publishing empire - why would I take advice from someone who has never experienced that?

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Why
  • Advice
  • Wealth

• My wealth is not a subject I relish discussing.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Wealth
  • Subject
  • Discussing

• In Greece, Italy and, to a lesser extent, France, unsustainable tax cuts and spending sprees added to households' estimates of their private wealth relative to their wage income.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Wealth
  • Tax
  • France

• If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Money
  • Free
  • Wealth

• Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Life
  • True
  • Poverty

• 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.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Power
  • Political

• Forced labor affects the most vulnerable and least protected people, perpetuating a vicious cycle of poverty and dependency. Women, low-skilled migrant workers, children, indigenous peoples, and other groups suffering discrimination on different grounds are disproportionately affected.

  

  Wagner Moura
  • People
  • Different
  • Women

• You can learn all about the human condition from covering the crime beat in a big city - you don't need to go to Beirut for that - but a foreign correspondent begins to understand poverty from a different perspective.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Different
  • City
  • Poverty

• Poverty is a soft pedal upon the branches of human activity, not excepting the spiritual.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Spiritual
  • Poverty

• After a divorce, men’s biggest fear is, typically, losing their children (women’s is poverty).

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Children

• If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.

  

  Ben Jonson
  • Great
  • Art
  • True

• You meet folks who are funny and really smart and persistent and loving that are confronting this thing we call poverty, which is just a shorthand for this way of life that holds you underwater. And you just wonder what our country would be if we allowed these people to flourish and reach their full potential.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • People
  • Life
  • Country

• If poverty persists in America, it is not for lack of resources. We lack something else.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • America
  • Poverty

• My sisters and I were fortunate to travel through Asia and Europe at very young ages. We confronted extraordinary beauty in Athens and unspeakable poverty in India.

  

  Mary Chapin Carpenter
  • Travel
  • Poverty

• The hard part that I had to go through in life, period, is living in poverty and not being able to get what I want.

  

  Derrick Rose
  • Life
  • Period
  • Poverty

• Samasource's largest clients are technology companies such as Microsoft, Google, Getty Images, and TripAdvisor, which contract with my company rather than a traditional outsourcing company in order to participate in 'impact sourcing' - conscious efforts to reduce poverty by moving money into places that need it.

  

  Leila Janah
  • Money
  • Technology
  • Moving

• Destructive thoughts and emotions undermine the very causes of peace and happiness. If you think clearly about it, it makes no sense to think you’re seeking happiness, if you do nothing to restrain angry, spiteful, and malicious thoughts and emotions.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Thinking
  • Peace
  • Thoughts

• I have no one style.

  

  Oscar Peterson
  • Style

• I'm betting that in two years I'll be talking to you about a film that I shot on an iPhone. It's absolutely coming, I have no doubt in my mind.

  

  Edward Burns
  • Mind
  • Doubt

• I am less desirous to explain phenomena than to establish their existence.

  

  Adolphe Quetelet
  • Existence
  • Explain
  • Phenomena

• Poverty? Wealth? Seek neither -- / One causes swollen heads, / The other, swollen bellies.

  

  Kassia
  • Poverty
  • Wealth
  • Causes