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 | "A greater poverty than that caused by lack of money is the poverty
of unawareness. Men and women go about the world unaware of the beauty,
the goodness, the glories in it. Their souls are poor. It is better to
have a poor pocketbook than to suffer from a poor soul." | |
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Thomas Dreier
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| "A sobering thought ? what if, at this very moment, I am living up to
my full potential?" | |
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Lily Tomlin
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| "An honest man is one who knows that he can"t consume more than he
has produced." | |
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Ayn Rand
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| "Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely
expensive it is to be poor." | |
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James Baldwin
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| "As a remedy against all ills - poverty, sickness, and melancholy -
only one thing is absolutely necessary: A liking for work." | |
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Charles Pierre Baudelaire
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| "As society advances the standard of poverty rises." | |
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Theodore Parker
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| "Content makes poor men rich; Discontent makes rich men poor." | |
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Benjamin Franklin
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| "Few, save the poor, feel for the poor." | |
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Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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| "For every talent that poverty has stimulated, it has blighted a
hundred." | |
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John William Gardner
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| "For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was
rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might
be rich." | |
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The Bible
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| "He is poor indeed that can promise nothing." | |
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Thomas Fuller
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| "I never could believe that Providence had sent a few men into the
world ready booted and spurred to ride, and millions ready saddled and
bridled to be ridden." | |
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Richard Rumbold
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| "I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that he is
unable to have a chicken in his pot every Sunday." | |
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Henri IV
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| "I"ve never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind.
Being broke is only a temporary situation." | |
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Mike Todd
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| "If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save
the few who are rich." | |
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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| "If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as
possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull
and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities." | |
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Bob Conklin
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| "In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of .
In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of." | |
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Kung Fu-tzu Confucius
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| "It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that
is spent in studying them." | |
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Bill Vaughan
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| "It?s no disgrace t? be poor, but it might as well be." | |
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Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard
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| "Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on
the Mount." | |
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George Bernard Shaw
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| "Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason." | |
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Henry Fielding
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| "One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen"s miseries is to
go and look at their pleasures." | |
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George Eliot
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| "Poverty ? it is life near the bone, where it is sweetest." | |
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Henry David Thoreau
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| "Poverty has many roots, but the tap root is ignorance." | |
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Lyndon Baines Johnson
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| "Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly
inconvenient." | |
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Rev. Sydney Smith
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| "Poverty is the openmouthed relentless hell which yawns beneath
civilized society. And it is hell enough." | |
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Henry George
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| "Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime." | |
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Aristotle
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| "Poverty is the step-mother of genius." | |
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Josh Billings
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| "Poverty makes you sad as well as wise." | |
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Bertolt Brecht
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| "Poverty must have many satisfactions, else there would not be so
many poor people." | |
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Don Herold
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| "POVERTY, n. A file provided for the teeth of the rats of reform. Its
victims are distinguished by possession of all the virtues and by their
faith in leaders seeking to conduct them into a prosperity where they
believe these to be unknown." | |
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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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| "Single women have a dreadful propensity to being poor." | |
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Jane Austen
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| "Stupidity is not a handicap in politics." | |
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Napoléon Bonaparte
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| "The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, As sages in all times assert;
The happy man "s without a shirt." | |
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John Heywood
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| "The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money
is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who
though he have millions is covetous." | |
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Orison Swett Marden
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| "The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and
the less they work the more their poverty will increase." | |
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Count Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
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| "The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the force of
the Crown. It may be frail; its roof may shake; the wind may blow through
it; the storms may enter, the rain may enter,? but the King of England
cannot enter; all his forces dare not cross the threshold of the ruined
tenement!" | |
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William Pitt, "the Elder Pitt"
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| "The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your
time." | |
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Willen De Kooning
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| "There are two things needed in these days; first, for rich men to
find out how poor men live; and, second, for poor men to know how rich men
work." | |
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E. Atkinson
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| "There is a noble manner of being poor and who does not know it will
never be rich." | |
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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| "There is no greater burden than great potential." | |
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Charles M. Schulz
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| "There is something about poverty that smells like death. Dead dreams
dropping off the heart, live leaves in a dry season and rotting around the
feet." | |
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Zora Neale Hurston
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| "There were times in my life when my pants were so thin, I could sit
on a dime and know if it was heads or tails." | |
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Spencer Tracy
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| "This mournful truth is ev"rywhere confess"d,? Slow rises worth by
poverty depress"d." | |
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Dr. Samuel Johnson
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| "This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, Slow rises worth by
poverty depressed." | |
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Samuel Johnson
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| "Through tattered clothes small vices do appear; Robes and furred
gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold, And the strong lance of justice
breaks; Arm it in rags, a pigmy?s straw does pierce it." | |
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William Shakespeare
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| "To live from hand to mouth." | |
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Proverb
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| "Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough
to cover." | |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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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Plato
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| "When the rich make war it"s the poor that die." | |
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Jean-Paul Sartre
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| "You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift." | |
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William J. H. Boetcker
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