"Those who minister to poverty and disease are accomplices in the two worst of all the crimes."
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"Precisely where I feel my poverty is where I discover God's blessing."
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"In their poverty, the mentally handicapped reveal God to us and hold us close to the gospel."
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"He who possesseth little is so much the less possessed. Blessed be moderate poverty!"
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"Poverty is the only load which is the heavier the more loved ones there are to assist in bearing it."
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"The curse of poverty has no justification in our age."
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"We need to realize that poverty doesn't only consist of being hungry for bread, but rather it is a tremendous hunger for human dignity. We need to love and to be someone for someone else"
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"Poverty was not created by God. It is we who have caused it, you and I through our egotism."
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"To educate girls is to reduce poverty."
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"Extreme poverty anywhere is a threat to human security everywhere."
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"Women must be full partners in development, so they can lift themselves and their communities out of poverty."
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"Prosperity without freedom is just another form of poverty."
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"It betrays a poverty of ambition if all you think about is what goods you can buy instead of what good you can do."
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"This so much joy! This 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!"
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"Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty."
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"Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy."
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"Heterosexuality has been forcibly and subliminally imposed on women. Yet everywhere women have resisted it, often at the cost of physical torture, imprisonment, psychosurgery, social ostracism, and extreme poverty."
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"Poverty and oysters always seem to go together."
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"If either wealth or poverty are come by honesty, there is no shame."
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"The superior man is anxious lest he should not get the truth; he is not anxious lest poverty should come upon him."
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