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Tag Name "Poverty" (1617)

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Poverty, the existence of the poor, was the first cause of riches.
Peter Kropotkin
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Poverty has its advantages. When you're that poor what would you have that anyone would want? Except your peace of mind. Your dignity. Your heart. The important things.
Ana Castillo
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Poverty didn't necessarily engender an envy of wealth sometimes it might beget a passion for decency.
Patricia Hampl
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Poverty is the worst form of death.
Ali ibn Abi Talib
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Poverty is a scorpion it stings the poor and it also stings the men with high conscience who feel sad about the poverty the rest is immune to it!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Poverty is relative, and the lack of food and of the necessities of life is not necessarily a hardship. Spiritual and social ostracism, the invasion of your privacy, are what constitute the pain of poverty
Alice Foote MacDougall
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Poverty is not intrinsically a trap, otherwise we would all still be poor.
Paul Collier
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Poverty sits by the cradle of all our great men and rocks all of them to manhood.
Heinrich Heine
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Poverty is the deprivation of opportunity.
Amartya Sen
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poverty ... is very bad for the formation of a personality. ... Not until I knew for certain where my next meal would come from could I give myself up to ignoring that next meal I could think of other things.
Helen Westley
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Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation.
Charlotte Bronte
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Poverty is not really as much of an obstacle to educational expansion as it's sometimes made out to be.
Amartya Sen
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Poverty ... It is life near the bone, where it is sweetest.
Henry David Thoreau
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Poverty's child - he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.
Matsuo Basho
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Poverty and deprivation lead to frustration, making the masses vulnerable to exploitation by extremist organizations.
Pervez Musharraf
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Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own opinion, of in that of any person, whose opinion we ought to value.
Ann Radcliffe
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Poverty doesn’t give you strength or teach you lessons about perseverance. No, poverty only teaches you how to be poor.
Sherman Alexie
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Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
Aristotle
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Poverty is everyone's problem. It cuts across any line you can name: age, race, social, geographic or religious. Whether you are black or white rich, middle-class or poor, we are ALL touched by poverty
Kathleen Blanco
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Poverty does not make people terrorists, but terrorists can exploit the frustration it creates and use it as a breeding-ground for violent ideas.
Anna Lindh
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Poverty without a people's government looks like hopelessness, but to see poverty in organized communities is to see relief-in-progress.
Holly Near
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Poverty is what we call the extremes at the bottom.
Joseph Stiglitz
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Poverty is not only about income poverty, it is about the deprivation of economic and social rights, insecurity, discrimination, exclusion and powerlessness. That is why human rights must not be ignored but given even greater prominence in times of economic crisis.
Irene Khan
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Poverty is the step-mother of genius.
Josh Billings
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