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In the West, we've lost our intuitive understanding of how poverty shapes thinking.
I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty.
Modernized by tin roofs and T-shirts, Third World poverty is no longer picturesque.
Oh, the little more, and how much it is! And the little less, and what worlds away.
My Scottish Labour Party is a crusade - to fight poverty, inequality and injustice.
Can we not wage a war and emerge victorious against poverty. Let us defeat poverty.
Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.
Poverty ennobles no one; it brutalizes common people and makes them hungry and old.
It's not viable' for poverty stricken developing world to emulate prosperity of U.S.
Wealth is a great sin in the eyes of God. Poverty is a great sin in the eyes of man.
A quality education grants us the ability to fight the war on ignorance and poverty.
People don't need to become more aware of poverty - they need to know how to end it.
When a society lacks God, even prosperity is joined by a terrible spiritual poverty.
The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty by how little.
The Buddhist version of poverty is a situation where you have nothing to contribute.
As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg
Little privations are easily endured when the heart is better treated than the body.
In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.
He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.
World Bank is a bank that's focused on economic development and poverty alleviation.
When other sects speak well of Zen, the first thing that they praise is its poverty.
Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.
If we are serious about breaking cycles of poverty, we have to change this (economy).
Corruption is Africa's greatest problem. Not poverty. Not lack of riches. Not racism.
What Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end.
Poverty does not create our social problems...our social problems create our poverty.
The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
There is a solitude in poverty, but a solitude which restores to each thing its value.
Microloans enable the poor to lift themselves out of poverty through entrepreneurship.
We lived in a housing project graced by the architectural style of Early Chicken Coop.
You don't have to get rich to have [fewer] children. It has happened across the world.
As a child growing up during the Korean War, I knew poverty. I studied by candlelight.
The middle class has disappeared. We have a highway to poverty and no roads coming out.
Nothing prompts creativity like poverty, a feeling of hopelessness, and a bit of panic.
Those who say nothing about their poverty will obtain more than those who turn beggars.
The folly of men not their hard heartedness was the great cause of the world s poverty.
Wherever there is excessive wealth, there is also in the train of it excessive poverty.
We must start talking differently about poverty--and start doing something differently.
If we from wealth to poverty descend, Want gives to know the flatterer from the friend.
The richness of God’s Word ought to determine our prayer, not the poverty of our heart.
I've never experienced chronic poverty, but I know what it's like to live on £3 a week.
That made me feel good, not to go to a resort where outside the door is extreme poverty
I shall not accept more than I need while others in the world have less than they need.
Poverty is one of them kind of misfortunes that we all of us dread but none of us pity.
If poverty persists in America, it is not for lack of resources. We lack something else.
That made me feel good, not to go to a resort where outside the door is extreme poverty.
It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.
To discover one's own spiritual poverty is to achieve a positive conquest by the spirit.
In the United States we have more women in poverty than any other industrialized nation.