Quotes with poverty-related

Quotes 161 till 180 of 232.

  • Ben Nicholson The latest page I've been working is about the organization of the pantheon of the gods. Who's indebted to whom, how they are related, who screwed whose uncle or grandmother, all of that.
    Ben Nicholson
    English painter (1894 - 1982)
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  • Alfred Hitchcock The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
    Alfred Hitchcock
    English moviedirector (1899 - 1980)
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  • Bjorn Lomborg 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
    Danish author (1965 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Ban Ki-moon The Millennium Development Goals were a pledge to uphold the principles of human dignity, equality and equity, and free the world from extreme poverty. The MDGs, with eight goals and a set of measurable time-bound targets, established a blueprint for tackling the most pressing development challenges of our time.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Bernie S. Siegel The mind and body are not separate units, but one integrated system. How we act and what we think, eat, and feel are all related to our health. Physicians should be capable of teaching this behavior to patients.
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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  • Napoleon Hill The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Begum Aga Khan The most powerful tool to lift families out of extreme poverty is to grant micro-loans to women.
    International Business and Leadership Symposium address
    Begum Aga Khan
    French Egyptian artist and last wife of Sultan Aga Khan III (1906 - 2000)
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  • Adrienne Rich The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.
    Adrienne Rich
    American Poet (1929 - 2012)
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  • Boris Spassky The place of chess in the society is closely related to the attitude of young people towards our game.
    Boris Spassky
    Russian chess grandmaster (1937 - )
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  • Al Franken The point is that there is tremendous hypocrisy among the Christian right. And I think that Christian voters should start looking at global warming and extreme poverty as a religious issue that speaks to the culture of life.
    Al Franken
    American comedian, politician and author (1951 - )
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  • Quentin Crisp The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as ''Soho'' poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.
    Quentin Crisp
    English writer and actor (1908 - 1999)
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  • Ben Nighthorse Campbell The president, just as any other American, deserves a legal defense against personal lawsuits not related to his office. But the costs of that defense should be borne by him and not the taxpayer.
    Ben Nighthorse Campbell
    American Cheyenne politician (1933 - )
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  • William James The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Adam Smith The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • Alan Watts The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.
    Alan Watts
    English philosopher, priest and writer (1915 - 1973)
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  • Arthur Hertzberg The Roosevelt enactment of Social Security was a moral revolution in our country: We were assured that we would never reach the very depths of poverty. And to be told, that we are now going to gamble it, on Wall Street, is nonsense!
    Arthur Hertzberg
    Jewish-American scholar and activist (1921 - 2006)
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  • Bill Flores The single best indicator of whether or not a child is going to be in poverty or not is whether or not they were raised by a two-parent household or a single parent household.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Arthur C. Brooks The truth is that relative income is not directly related to happiness. Nonpartisan social-survey data clearly show that the big driver of happiness is earned success: a person's belief that he has created value in his life or the life of others.
    Arthur C. Brooks
    American social scientist and musician (1964 - )
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  • Sophia Loren The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.
    Sophia Loren
    Italian actress (1934 - )
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