Poverty Quotes
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It was hard to believe there was so much money in all this bitter and poverty-stricken world. So much money, so very much money, and someone else had it, someone who took it lightly and didn't need it.
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Everyone knew that democracy - direct rule by all the people - required such spartan, soul-denying virtue on the part of all the people that it was likely to survive only where poverty made upright behavior necessary for the perpetuation of the race.
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The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can't solve extreme poverty and disease, isn't just mistaken. It is harmful.
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One of the most fashionable notions of our times is that social problems like poverty and oppression breed wars. Most wars, however, are started by well-fed people with the time on their hands to dream up half-baked ideologies or grandiose ambitions, and to nurse real or imagined grievances.
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Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life.
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We are the folk song army, every one of us cares. We all hate poverty, war, and injustice unlike the rest of you squares.
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Genius may be almost defined as the faculty of acquiring poverty.
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Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.
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I had to get rich so I could afford to sing like I was poor again.
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It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen that is the common right of humanity.
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Bolivia also depends not only on tin and other minerals, but also depends on the gas and oil. A rational extraction should be made, taking care of the environment. We should give added value to this natural resource, and generate revenue to fight poverty with more resources, that come from natural resources.
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It is no mere coincidence that there is both an historic and a present relationship between community (people assisting each other) and a poverty of power due to financial recession.
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And money can't buy everything. For example: poverty.
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Beyond poverty, beyond the point that the material needs are reasonably satisfied, only from within is peace.
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To be able to proclaim the Good News to the poor we must know what is poverty.
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The poverty of the West is far more difficult to solve than the poverty of India.
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There's a real sense of desperation when you grow up in poverty.
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Abu Dharr once described the people of the world, says, "They breed what will they ultimately bury, they build what will eventually be destroy, they hold firm to what is emphemeral, and they forsake what is everlasting. Hence, blessed are the two cries people abominate most: Death and poverty.
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It is the women who are the leaders in change and without their participation poverty can never be removed.
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Self-pity is the worst poverty. When a person says, 'I am...' with pity, before he has said anything more he has diminished himself to half of what he is; and what is said further, diminishes him totally; nothing more of him is left afterwards.
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Diamonds are a key component in the campaign to make poverty history.
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One would think that by the second decade of the twenty-first century, the intellectual poverty of technocracy and the primacy of politics over it would be a well-established truth in need of no further defense.
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The good thing about poverty is it keeps you from getting in trouble because if you can't afford drugs, people will stop giving them to you very quickly. So, being poor really helps - it's the success that kills you.
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Better to live hundred years as a millionaire, than one week in poverty!
