"There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our thoughts."
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"It's not a coincidence that in the Scriptures, poverty is mentioned more than 2,100 times. It's not an accident. That's a lot of air time, 2,100 mentions."
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"Men praise poverty, as the African worships Mumbo Jumbo--from terror of the malign power, and a desire to propitiate at."
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"To leave the number of births unrestricted, as is done in most states, inevitably causes poverty among the citizens, and poverty produces crime and faction."
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"When rich villains have need of poor ones, poor ones may make what price they will"
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"Evermore thanks, the exchequer of the poor"
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"Riches exclude only one inconvenience,--that is, poverty."
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"It is the care of a very great part of mankind to conceal their indigence from the rest. They support themselves by temporary expedients, and every day is lost in contriving for to-morrow."
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"The whole world is put in motion by the wish for riches and the dread of poverty."
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"To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself."
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"This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed."
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"Paper is poverty, it is only the ghost of money, and not money itself."
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"He has committed the crime who profits by it."
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"[B]eyond poverty, beyond the point that the material needs are reasonably satisfied, only from within is peace."
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"Oh, the little more, and how much it is! And the little less, and what worlds away."
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"Poverty is a career for lot's of well paid people"
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"The people starve because those above them eat too much tax-grain. That is the only reason why they starve."
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"There is something about poverty that smells like death."
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"As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them of course, but one cannot possibly admire them."
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"In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization."
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