Poverty Quotes
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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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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.
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Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.
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We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.
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To blame the existence of al Qaeda on poverty like Egypt's is a slur on the poor.
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The Millennium Development Goals were a pledge to uphold the principles of human dignity, equality and equity, and free the world from extreme poverty. The MDGs, with eight goals and a set of measurable time-bound targets, established a blueprint for tackling the most pressing development challenges of our time.
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Being a writer is a poverty trap. I mean, it's a terrible profession.
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All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.
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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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The mystery of the poor is this: That they are Jesus, and what you do for them you do for Him. It is the only way we have of knowing and believing in our love. The mystery of poverty is that by sharing in it, making ourselves poor in giving to others, we increase our knowledge of and belief in love.
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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.
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'Dead Aid' is about the inefficacy and the limitations of large-scale aid programs in creating economic growth and reducing poverty in Africa.
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You see, the poverty program for the last five years have been buy-off programs.
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There are grave misgivings that the discussion on ecology may be designed to distract attention from the problems of war and poverty.
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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.
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Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth... these are one and the same fight. We must connect the dots between climate change, water scarcity, energy shortages, global health, food security and women's empowerment. Solutions to one problem must be solutions for all.
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We cannot afford to spend millions and millions over nuclear arms when there is poverty and unemployment all around us.
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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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Poverty leads to hardship and failure.
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I am bullish on the global development. I am bullish on billions of people getting out of poverty.
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There is not a single indication in man's wonderful mechanism that he was created for a life of poverty. There is something larger and grander for him in the divine plan than perpetual slavery to the bread-winning problem.
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Oh, poverty parts good company.
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I agree with President Roosevelt, and generations since, that American seniors deserve better than poverty.
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Always remember: the alleviation of poverty is never a political or economic issue - it is moral.
