Poverty Quotes
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America has a critical place to play in the end of extreme poverty.
Hugh Evans
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For people to escape poverty for good, we need better policies that support work, strengthen families, and move America forward.
Charles Boustany
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It isn't poverty that breeds terrorism, but terrorism that breeds poverty.
Dan Gillerman
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Even though it is the case that poverty is linked to AIDS, in the sense that Africa is poor and they have a lot of AIDS, it's not necessarily the case that improving poverty - at least in the short run, that improving exports and improving development - it's not necessarily the case that that's going to lead to a decline in HIV prevalence.
Emily Oster
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Imagine living in abject poverty and not knowing anything other than that for generations. Or alternatively, imagine being born into a really wealthy family, but there was no real love. Everyone's living these extraordinary, interesting lives whether they know it or not.
Annie Lennox
Eurythmics
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If you want to help Africa, you should help them out of poverty, not try to build solar cells and windmills.
Ivar Giaever
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It’s been proven that of all the interventions to reduce poverty, improving agricultural productivity is the best.
Bill Gates
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Poverty, first of all was never a misfortune for me; it was radiant with sunlight.. I owe it to my family, first of all, who lacked everything and who envied practically nothing.
Albert Camus
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Since Social Security was established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 to ensure economic security for American workers, poverty among American seniors has dramatically declined.
Steve Israel
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The Andrians were the first of the islanders to refuse Themistocles' demand for money. He had put it to them that they would be unable to avoid paying, because the Athenians had the support of two powerful deities, one called Persuasion and the other Compulsion.The Andrians had replied that Athens was lucky to have two such useful gods, who were obviously responsible for her wealth and greatness; unfortunately, they themselves, in their small & inadequate land, had two utterly useless deities, who refused to leave the island and insisted on staying; and their names were Poverty and Inability.
Herodotus
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When poverty comes in the door love flies out the window" is a saying as old as it is sad.
Elsie Lincoln Benedict
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A whole generation of Americans will retire in poverty instead of prosperity, because they simply are not preparing for retirement now.
Scott Cook
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Poverty with joy isn't poverty at all. The poor man is not one who has little, but one who hankers after more.
Seneca the Younger
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Seek the simplest in all things, in food, clothing, without being ashamed of poverty. For a great part of the world lives in poverty. Do not say, "I am the son of a rich man. It is shameful for me to be in poverty." Christ, your Heavenly Father, Who gave birth to you in the baptistery, is not in worldly riches. Rather he walked in poverty and had nowhere to lay His head.
Gennadius of Constantinople
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Poverty? Wealth? Seek neither -- / One causes swollen heads, / The other, swollen bellies.
Kassia
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Poverty is the mother of crime.
Cassiodorus
