A proper home can provide the bridge across that terrible gulf between poverty and a better future. — Aga Khan IV Copy Share Image
But ask yourself this Eragon: If gods exist, have they been good custodians of alagaesia? Death, sickness, poverty, tyranny and countless other… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
Trade creates jobs and lifts people out of poverty. And when that happens, societies stabilize and grow. And there is nothing like… — Dennis Hastert Copy Share Image
I think poverty is the biggest challenge for Los Angeles and for many of our cities that have come back from the… — Eric Garcetti Copy Share Image
There is little favorable to be said about poverty, but it was often an incubator of true friendship. Many people will appear… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Popcorn-can cover / screwed to the wall / over a hole / so the cold / can't mouse in. — Lorine Niedecker Copy Share Image
“I would rather be a poor man in a rich country than a rich man in a poor country.” — Wanchain Copy Share Image
Poverty, I realized, wasn't only a lack of financial resources; it was isolation from the kind of people that could help you… — Keith Ferrazzi Copy Share Image
“We have a festering mass of human wretchedness in all our great towns, which is the natural hotbed of such anarchical movements:… — Edward R. Pease Copy Share Image
It was easier to deal with poverty and death in India that the lack of spirituality in America. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
We in the West must bear in mind that the poor countries are poor primarily because we have exploited them through political… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We live in a world where economic positions - income and wealth - are very unevenly distributed, and this leads to the… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
“We're not as free and independent as we thought. Street-level work that disrupts the infrastructure (the sewer system below or the electrical… — Matthew B. Crawford Copy Share Image
“To invest your life, you must invest your time and make sure it doesn’t just melt away like Salvador Dali’s melting clock.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Industrial Society is not merely one containing 'industry,' large-scale productive units capable of supplying man's material needs in a way which can… — Ernest Gellner Copy Share Image
We kill at every step, not only in wars, riots and executions. We kill when we close our eyes to poverty, suffering… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“To truly be better than your past self, you must practice the rule of ten thousand hours and you must invest so… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Since Social Security was established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 to ensure economic security for American workers, poverty among American… — Steve Israel Copy Share Image
Economic growth without social progress lets the great majority of the people remain in poverty, while a privileged few reap the benefits… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Wealth and honor, benefits and blessings shall enrich my life; poverty and failures, grief and anxiety shall help fulfill it. In my… — Zhang Zai Copy Share Image
“If you desire to be productive with your time, you should select a maximum of two things that are your highest priority,… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Poverty, therefore, was comparative. One measured it by a sliding scale. One was always poor, in terms of those who were richer. — Margaret Drabble Copy Share Image
“Suppose that my "poverty" be a secret hunger for spiritual riches: suppose that by pretending to empty myself, pretending to be silent,… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“In effect, historians abolished poverty by the simple device of taking it off the agenda.” — Antony G. Hopkins Copy Share Image
“Hunger and poverty steal your childhood and take away your innocence and sense of security. But I was one of the lucky… — Saroo Brierley Copy Share Image
Many writers claim that nearly all crime is caused by economic conditions, or in other words that poverty is practically the whole… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
As writers, we don't just need to write about poverty or war or the immigrant experience. — Jennifer Gilmore Copy Share Image
“When you can actually measure your day by how much time is converted into products, then you are a great force on… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
[A]ffirmative action in the United States has made blacks. . .who have largely lifted themselves out of poverty, look like people who… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“One of the most painful realizations in life is to all of a sudden discover that you had possessed things all along… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
If everything must have a cause, then God must have a cause. If there can be anything without a cause, it may… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In my grandmother's house there was always chicken soup And talk of the old country--mud and boards, Poverty, The snow falling down… — Louis Simpson Copy Share Image
“Our lives are a picture of being overwhelmed by all kind of things going on in our lives and around us.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Between 1965 (the beginning of LBJ's "Great Society") and 1994, welfare spending has cost the taxpayers $5.4 trillion in constant 1993 dollars.… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“If you tempted a poor man with a fortune, who could blame the fellow for taking what he could?” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
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