Quotes with poverty

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• While poverty persists, there is no true freedom.

  Ambassador of Conscience Award Acceptance Speech, 1-11-2006

  Nelson Mandela
  South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and political leader (1918 - 2013)
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• Wisdom deprives even poverty of half its power.

  Josh Billings
  American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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• With one hand he put a penny in the urn of poverty, and with the other took a shilling out.

  Robert Pollok
   
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• You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.
  

  Bill Cosby
  American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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• You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.

  P. J. O'Rourke
  American journalist (1947 - )
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• You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used through-out history to take people from rags to riches, from poverty and obscurity to success and fame, from unhappiness and frustration to joy and self-fulfillment, and it can do the same for you.

  Brian Tracy
  Canadian-American motivational public speaker and self-development aut (1944 - )
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• 'Tis so much joy! 'Tis so much joy! If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I Have ventured all upon a throw; Have gained! Yes! Hesitated so this side the victory!

  Emily Dickinson
  American poet (1830 - 1886)
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• A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.

  Lewis Mumford
  American social philosopher (1895 - 1990)
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• A person born with an instinct for poverty.

  Elbert Hubbard
  American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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• Debt is the worst poverty.

  Thomas Fuller
  English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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• I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
  

  Robert F. Kennedy
  American Senator (1925 - 1968)
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• In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

  Aristotle
  Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• self-fulfillment
• poverty-stricken
• unhappiness
• frustration
• misfortunes
• stupidities

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