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It's like a convent, the hospital. You leave the world behind and take vows of poverty, chastity, obedience.
Charity puts and end to poverty; righteous conduct to misery; discretion to ignorance; and scrutiny to fear.
Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.
I do remember the numbers runners, I do remember the poverty and bread lines. Harlem stays with you forever.
Women must be full partners in development, so they can lift themselves and their communities out of poverty.
While tourism is often resource-intensive, it is a major driver of poverty reduction in developing countries.
Poverty does not belong in civilized human society. Its proper place is in a museum. That's where it will be.
The trouble with poverty, as an issue, is that it has basically exhausted the patience of the general public.
The great doctors all got their education off dirt pavements and poverty - not marble floors and foundations.
Indeed, in Russia there is a terrible poverty of facts, and a terrible abundance of reflections of all sorts.
Great wants proceed from great wealth; but they are undutiful children, for they sink wealth down to poverty.
Devotees are not impressed by the poverty or wealth in material sense in any way; what impresses is devotion.
North as well as South, the Negroes have emerged from slavery into a serfdom of poverty and restricted rights.
We like the fine extravagance of that philosopher who declared that no man was as rich as all men ought to be.
Our inability to recall how we really felt is why our wealth of experiences turns out to be poverty of riches.
Every year 3.1 million Indian children die before the age of 5, mostly from diseases of poverty like diarrhea.
While the Taliban connives with foreign terrorists, the Afghan people suffer from poverty, drought and hunger.
I would like to thank my parents in Vergaio, a little village in Italy. They gave me the biggest gift: poverty.
[B]eyond poverty, beyond the point that the material needs are reasonably satisfied, only from within is peace.
It has always been incomprehensible for me: people are ashamed of the poverty but aren't ashamed of the wealth.
Nothing is so much needed as a secure family life for a people seeking to rise out of poverty and backwardness.
Sometimes poverty is the greatest gift you can ever be given. Sometimes loss is the key that leads you to gain.
Seneca devoted much of his time to writing essays in praise of poverty, and in lending money at usurious rates.
At Year Up, we have helped thousands of students rise from poverty into a professional career in a single year.
EJECTION, n. An approved remedy for the disease of garrulity. It is also much used in cases of extreme poverty.
Compared to Nature we suffer a poverty of imagination; it is thus much easier for us to uncover than to invent.
The perception of poverty as morally intolerable in a rich society had to await the emergence of a rich society
A time of famine and poverty will come and the people as a whole as well as every individual in it will suffer.
As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life.
Seriously, American pop culture must be the most predominant force on the planet, next to pollution and poverty.
It is widely known that the effects of childhood poverty follow children through adolescence and into adulthood.
I'm always suspicious when a guy takes his date on a walk, because it reeks of poverty and an inability to plan.
The crime should be punished no matter whether poverty or wealth caused it to occur, because the crime is wrong.
Capitalism - for the record - has lifted more people out of poverty than any other economic system in the world.
I want to wage war against illiteracy, poverty, unemployment, unfair competition, communitarianism, delinquency.
CPEC will play its important role for eliminating terrorism and extremism and poverty alleviation in the region.
I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then.
To be a star is to own the world and all the people in it. After a taste of stardom, everything else is poverty.
it is inconceivable that poverty eradication can make much headway in the absence of major advances in literacy.
When I began working in not-for-profits, it was taking a vow of poverty, which eliminated huge numbers of folks.
It is by human avarice or human stupidity, not by the churlishness of nature, that we have poverty and overwork.
I am an entrepreneur and my goal is to create invention to the solution of human trafficking and extreme poverty.
Inherited wealth may be something easily squandered, but inherited poverty is a legacy almost impossible to lose.
A poverty that is universal may be cheerfully borne; it is an individual poverty that is painful and humiliating.
Groups that rose from poverty to prosperity seldom did so by having their own racial or ethnic leaders to follow.
The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.
You, who are ashamed of your poverty, and blush for your calling, are a snob; as are you who boast of your wealth.
Taxing poor families runs counter to decades of effort to help people lift themselves out of poverty through work.
We can no longer prosper by increasing human productivity. The more we try to do, the more poverty we will create.
It betrays a poverty of ambition if all you think about is what goods you can buy instead of what good you can do.