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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

• We don't need flowery words about inequality to tell us that, and we don't need a party that has led while poverty and hunger rose to record levels to give us lectures about suffering.

  

  Artur Davis
  • Words
  • Party
  • Suffering

• Me, I'm a working-class man, and I go to my job, put in the work, and walk away clean and unscathed, and I like it that way.

  

  Demetrious Johnson
  • Work
  • Job

• Americans coming home, an Iran that has rolled back its nuclear program and accepted unprecedented monitoring of the program -these things are a reminder of what we can achieve when we lead with strength and with wisdom, with courage and resolve and patience. America can do and has done big things when we work together.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Work
  • Done
  • Home

• In fact, the tunnel curves between Knightsbridge and South Kensington stations because it was impossible to drill through the mass of skeletal remains buried in Hyde Park.

  

  Catharine Arnold
  • Impossible
  • Buried
  • Tunnel

• Archery, fencing, spear fighting, all of the martial arts, tea ceremony, flower arranging...in all of these, correct breathing, correct balance, and correct stillness help to remake the individual. The basic aim is always the same: by tirelessly practicing a given skill, the student finally sheds the ego with its fears, worldly ambitions, and reliance on objective scrutiny - sheds it so completely that he becomes the instrument of a deeper power, from which mastery falls instinctively, without further effort on his part, like a ripe fruit.

  

  Karlfried Graf Durckheim
  • Balance
  • Helping
  • Ambition

• Ultimately, I'm a fan of music. I describe writing music sometimes as hieroglyphics, like, you know, excavating, gently brushing off these artifacts and discovering the song underneath it all. It seems as if it is already written in it.

  

  CeeLo Green
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Song

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

  

  Kassia
  • Poverty
  • Wealth
  • Causes