I wanted to win to feed the hungry people of my community. I didn't want to win to buy a diamond.. I… — Mr. T Copy Share Image
As a result of the current universal benefit, the poverty rate for seniors in America is about 10%. Without the universal benefit,… — Steve Israel Copy Share Image
“That is a vacation! It is the best time for you to be productive because you are not being distracted by work.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“Some people will insult your intelligence by suddenly being nice or nicer to you once you make it … or they think… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
To do such a thing would be to transcend magic. And I beheld, unclouded by doubt, a magnificent vision of all that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Youth gives a sense of new days dawning bright, going on for ever, and a kind of tamped-down excitement which keeps breaking… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
Nowadays, by contrast, Christianity specialises in soft-focus mood music; its threats of hell, its demand for poverty and chastity, its doctrine that… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
“Be patient, you are in good company. Our Lord Himself, our Lady, the apostles, and countless saints, both men and women, have… — St. Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
Is it possible that the environmental severity of the 1930s induced-particularly in the most aware, alert, and compassionate of [British] men-a morality… — Robert Ardrey Copy Share Image
I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one's… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Countries should think of Haiti not as a place where to do charity but a place where to invest and do business.… — Laurent Lamothe Copy Share Image
To make a proper moral appraisal of the prevalence of severe poverty today, we should focus not on comparisons with times past,… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
I would put primary emphasis on a good standard of living equitably distributed. It can't be equal, but one that eliminates the… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Look, we'll have to confront the pathologies of poverty at some point. We can deal with them cheaply at the front end,… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
A poor nation, but with rich politicians, shows the exceptional care of the latter for the ruling people! — Mariana Fulger Copy Share Image
“Making universal prosperity a right is the surest way to universal poverty.” — JSB Morse Copy Share Image
Most of us still believe in the intrinsic value of nature, but I think the first century of the environmental/conservation movement demonstrated… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
Of course I had the parallel of having the early years of my life being spent during apartheid, and then having a… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
Thanks to the acuteness of his mind, he saw through the poverty of philosophical and Gnostic knowledge, and contemptuously rejected it. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
We know that many boys and girls leave school because of poverty, because they have to work. However, there are an important… — Shakira Copy Share Image
When it comes to poverty, there is no need to say anything. All we need to do is to help, the moment… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
It is absolute poverty that you could end, but I think relative poverty is a whole other issue. — Abhijit Banerjee Copy Share Image
The way the [welfare] programs are organized, poor people are only paid to do things that are counter-productive - such as breaking… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“The ending of war, the resolution of poverty, the creation of a material abundance unseen in history to meet human needs, the… — Tzm Team Copy Share Image
I have the impression that when we talk so confidently of liberty, we are unaware of the awful ... servitude of poverty… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Copy Share Image
If you are weakened by the pains of hunger and poverty, with no money in your pockets, and no one will give… — Sri Guru Granth Sahib Copy Share Image
Not only did we survive AIDS, Reaganomics, poverty, racism, gang violence, police brutality, substance abuse - not only did we survive that,… — Sofia Quintero Copy Share Image
Who would be a poor man, a beggar man, a thief, if he held a rich man in his hand? — Jethro Tull Copy Share Image
We will not overcome world poverty unless we manage climate change successfully. I've spent my life as a development economist, and it's… — Nicholas Stern Copy Share Image
If you have a problem where you have just poverty, long-term insurance benefits for an emergency aren't going to solve that either.… — Harry Reid Copy Share Image
Befriending provides a valuable lifeline to many people who feel isolated in their communities often as a result of ill health or… — Charles Kennedy Copy Share Image
Poverty is a solved problem - all they have to do is abolish taxes and regulations which cripple those intelligent, capable, and… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
Only nuclear can lift all humans out of poverty while saving the natural environment. Nothing else - not coal, not solar, not… — Michael Shellenberger Copy Share Image
The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I confess I could never see any good reason why dirt should always be a necessary concomitant of poverty. — Willis Gaylord Clark Copy Share Image
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