"The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence."
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"He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor."
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"It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy unenvied, to be healthful without physic, and secure without a guard; to obtain from the bounty of nature, what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of artists and attendants, of flatterers and spies."
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"A man guilty of poverty easily believes himself suspected."
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"All this [wealth] excludes but one evil, poverty."
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"As society advances the standard of poverty rises."
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"It is unacceptable that someone can work full time - and work hard - and not be able to lift themselves out of poverty."
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"Development is a lot cheaper than sending soldiers."
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"It is not necessarily poverty of spirit that makes a woman surround herself with life - it can be a superabundance of interest."
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"The poor man commands respect; the beggar must always excite anger."
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"Restore the spinning wheel to its place and you will solve the problem of poverty."
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"Poverty is the greatest violence."
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"Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success."
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"Let us look at wealth and poverty. The affluent society and the deprived society inter-are. The wealth of one society is made of the poverty of the other. "This is like this, because that is like that." Wealth is made of non-wealth elements, and poverty is made by non-poverty elements. [...] so we must be careful not to imprison ourselves in concepts. The truth is that everything contains everything else. We cannot just be, we can only inter-be. We are responsible fo everything that happens around us."
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"Poverty doesn't bring unhappiness; it brings degradation."
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"Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry."
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"What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!"
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"I am much more open about categories of gender, and my feminism has been about women's safety from violence, increased literacy, decreased poverty and more equality."
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"It is not only poverty that torments the Negro; it is the fact of poverty amid plenty. It is a misery generated by the gulf between the affluence he sees in the mass media and the deprivation he experiences in his everyday life."
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"Poverty's child - he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon."
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