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Jane Addams
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The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain - until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.
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Jonathan Kozol
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If there are amazing graces on this earth, I believe that they are these good children sent to us by God and not yet soiled by the knowledge that their nation does not love them.
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Frederick Douglass
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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
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Mother Theresa
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We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.
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D. A. Battista
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Poverty of goods is easily cured poverty of the mind is irreparable.
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Lyndon B. Johnson
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Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.
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SHAKS.: _Rom. and Jul.,_ Act v., Sc. 1.
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My poverty, but not my will, consents.
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Proverbs 30.8 Bible
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Give me neither poverty nor riches.
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Zora Neale Hurston
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There is something about poverty that smells like death.
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Lyndon B. Johnson
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This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.
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Japanese Proverb
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In wealth many friends in poverty, not even relatives.
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John W. Gardner
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For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires.
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Kin Hubbard
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It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness poverty and wealth have both failed.
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Nelson Rockefeller
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The chief problem with lower income farmers is poverty.
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Jewish Proverb
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People come to poverty in two ways accumulating debts and paying them off.
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Kahlil Gibran
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Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.
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DRYDEN: _Wife of Bath,_ Line 485.
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If we from wealth to poverty descend, Want gives to know the flatterer from the friend.
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
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The want of goods is easily repaired, but the poverty of the soul is irreparable.
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American Indian Proverb
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Poverty is a noose that strangles humility and breeds disrespect for God and man.
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Bill Cosby
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You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything --even poverty--you can survive it.
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Bill Cosby
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You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.
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Plutarch
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Learn to be pleased with everything with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others with poverty, for not having much to care for, and with obscurity, for being unenvied.
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Henry David Thoreau
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None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty.
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POPE: _Odyssey,_ Bk. xvii., Line 505.
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In ev'ry sorrowing soul I pour'd delight, And poverty stood smiling in my sight.
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James Dale Davidson
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The politicians don't just want your money. They want your soul. They want you to be worn down by taxes until you are dependent and helpless. When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of both.
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George F. Gilder
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Real poverty is less a state of income than a state of mind.
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Bertrand Russell
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There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our thoughts.
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Kahlil Gibran
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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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George Bernard Shaw
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Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
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Kofi Annan
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Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world.
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Frederick Douglass
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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
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Aristotle
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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.
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Aristotle
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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.
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Daniel S. Greenberg
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The scientific community having made a rapid ascent from deep poverty to great affluence, from academe's cloisters to Washington's high councils, still tends to be a bit excitable - not unlike a nouveau riche in a fluctuating market.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.
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George Bernard Shaw
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...with the black marble which gives the fireplace the air of a miniature family vault, to suggest early Victorian commercial respectability, belief in money, Bible fetichism, fear of hell always at war with fear of poverty, instinctive horror of the pass
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Henry David Thoreau
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However mean your life is, meet it and live it do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.
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Eva Pern
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Almsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty aid does away with it once and for all. Almsgiving leaves a man just where he was before. Aid restores him to society as an individual worthy of all respect and not as a man with a grievance. Almsgiving is the generosity of the rich social aid levels up social inequalities. Charity separates the rich from the poor aid raises the needy and sets him on the same level with the rich.
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Eric Butterworth
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Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things.
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True poverty does not come from God.
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Poverty is the schoolmaster of character.
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I worked myself up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.
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Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
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Socialism is the equal distribution of poverty.
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Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
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Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction.
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Painless poverty is better than embittered wealth.
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It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
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Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the worst poverty of all.
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Loves conquers all things except poverty and toothache.
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The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
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He who ashamed of his poverty would be equally proud of his wealth.
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We are not without accomplishment. We have managed to distribute poverty equally.
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You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.
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Jargon allows us to camouflage intellectual poverty with verbal extravagance.
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Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy.
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Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.
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It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.
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Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success.
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Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.
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The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth.
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Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied.
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Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings.
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Wealth is not of necessity a curse, nor poverty a blessing. Wholesome and easy abundance is better than either extreme; better for our manhood that we have enough for daily comfort; enough for culture, for hospitality, for charity. More than this may or m
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"Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness." -- Johnson
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"He is now rising from affluence to poverty." -- Mark Twain
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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to opress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
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"None shall be enslaved by poverty, ignorance or conformity."
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"I've worked myself up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty." - GM
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Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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What is the matter with the poor is poverty; what is the matter with the rich is uselessness.
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It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death, and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland.
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It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy and yet unenvied, to be healthy with physic, secure without a guard, and to obtain from the bounty of nature what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of art.
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In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry of idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe.
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In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry or idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe.
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Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry, all things easy. He that rises late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night, while laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.
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The best coffee in Europe is Vienna coffee, compared to which all other coffee is fluid poverty.
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If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place.
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The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous. Hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance. This new version is the past and no different past can ever have existed. In principle the war effort is always plan
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However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your
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The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
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What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence, a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that m
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We have weapons of mass destruction we have to address here at home. Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Homelessness is a weapon of mass destruction. Unemployment is a weapon of mass destruction.
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