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Births

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• My mission is to eradicate poverty.

  Dilma Rousseff

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Poverty, Mission

• The levels of poverty in 1933′s rural America were unimaginable to us now. The 1933 Farm Bill, which introduced unprecedented government control over agriculture, was a reaction to the specific problems facing producers at that time.

  Debbie Stabenow

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Poverty, Government

• If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Poet, Creator, Seems, Enough, Poor, Poverty, Blame

• Rap’s conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride.

  David Foster Wallace

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• A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.

  David Hume

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• Haiti is in desperate poverty.

  Pat Robertson

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  Tags in Poverty, Desperate

• Stand-up comedy and poverty. Those were my two main endeavors.

  Dave Foley

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• It is difficult to describe in short the enthusiasm and devotion provoked by and given to my research. We lived almost in poverty. I used pencils, two for a nickel, and could not buy a fountain pen, when I lost mine.

  Immanuel Velikovsky

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Difficult, Poverty, Describe

• However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Topics in Ideals, Life

  Tags in Poverty, Simplicity, Credo, Creed

• People can be so apathetic. They continue to ignore the real people trapped in poverty and homelessness. It’s almost maddening.

  Daphne Zuniga

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• As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.

  Daniel Defoe

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• The main environmental challenge of the 21st century is poverty. When you don’t know where your next meal is coming from, it’s hard to consider the environment 100 years down the line.

  Bjorn Lomborg

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  Tags in Poverty

• We can no longer prosper by increasing human productivity. The more we try to do, the more poverty we will create.

  Paul Hawken

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  Tags in Human Being, Poverty

• The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off – we do not have to stand for this.

  Paul David Hewson

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  Tags in Generation, Poverty

• There’s so much absurdity. Poverty is so absurd.

  Frank McCourt

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• Poverty affects people of all races.

  Bill Bennett

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• Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

  Bertolt Brecht

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• Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.

  Bertolt Brecht

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• Poverty is from the devil and that God wants all Christians prosperous.

  Benny Hinn

  Topics in God

  Tags in Poverty

• When you talk about war on poverty it doesn’t mean very much; but if you can show to some degree this sort of thing then you can show a great deal more of how people are living and a very great percentage of our people today.

  Ben Shahn

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in War, Poverty