Quotes with poverty-related

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  • Aaron Spelling I must tell you, I haven't done the drug problem that is faced by cops and people on the border. It's a hard show to do, but I think it's going to say a lot about drugs and the problems related to them. I just hope people can watch it, it's a pretty strong show
    Aaron Spelling
    American film and television (1923 - 2006)
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  • Anatole France I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Groucho Marx I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.
    Groucho Marx
    American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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  • Anais Nin If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way.
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • Ben Jonson If all you boast of your great art be true;
    Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
    The Works of Ben Jonson, First Folio VI, To Alchemists, lines 1-2.
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Aneurin Bevan If freedom is to be saved and enlarged, poverty must be ended. There is no other solution.
    In Place of Fear (1952)
    Aneurin Bevan
    British Labor politician (1897 - 1960)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère If poverty is the mother of crime, lack of good sense is the father.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Ali ibn Abi Talib If poverty were a man, I would have slain him.
    Ali ibn Abi Talib
    Cousin and son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad (601 - 661)
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  • Simone Weil If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Confucius In a country well governed poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed wealth is something to be ashamed of.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Herbert Hoover In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land.
    Speech Stanford University, 11 august 1928
    Herbert Hoover
    American engineer, businessman and politician (1874 - 1964)
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  • Herbert Hoover In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.
    Herbert Hoover
    American engineer, businessman and politician (1874 - 1964)
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  • Cam Newton In college, you had to worry about that math class or this exam that's coming up on Tuesday, but not in the professionals. You eat, sleep, and do everything related to your craft - and your craft is football. You can be at it from sunup to sundown.
    Cam Newton
    American football player (1989 - )
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  • Lydia Sigourney In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry of idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe.
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  • Barry Humphries In Edna, I created a satiric portrait of my hometown of Melbourne, a large provincial English city paradoxically in far Southeast Asia. She's a theatrical figure, related to vaudeville in some respects. She inhabits a world in which there are comparatively few female exponents of comedy.
    Barry Humphries
    Australian comedian, actor, artist, and author (1934 - 2023)
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  • Oscar Wilde In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Bertrand Piccard In the 21st century, I think the heroes will be the people who will improve the quality of life, fight poverty and introduce more sustainability.
    Bertrand Piccard
    Swiss psychiatrist (1958 - )
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  • Henry Miller In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Ahmed Ben Bella In the past, we spoke of poverty, misery only in the south. Now there is a lot of misery, a lot of bad that creates victims in the north as well. This has become manifest: the global system was not made to serve the good of all, but to serve multinational companies.
    Ahmed Ben Bella
    Algerian politician, socialist soldier and revolutionary (1916 - 2012)
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  • George Bernard Shaw In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I give from thirty shillings a week to twelve thousand a year. They find their own dreams; but I look after the drainage.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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