"War on nations changes maps. War on poverty maps change."
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"I am proposing to create another kind of business, based on "selflessness" that is in all of us. I am calling it social business."
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"Poverty is not simply having no money - it is isolation, vulnerability, humiliation and mistrust."
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"The best way to help the poor is to make them uncomfortable in their own poverty."
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"Why should a child's future be shaped by where they are born?"
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"Poverty is a scandal of our times because it CAN be changed."
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"Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation."
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"Some of the best people that ever lived have been as destitute as I am; and if you are a Christian, you ought not to consider poverty a crime."
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"Indeed, in Russia there is a terrible poverty of facts, and a terrible abundance of reflections of all sorts."
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"It is poverty's speech that seeks us out the most. It is older than the oldest speech of Rome. This is the tragic accent of the scene."
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"All plenty which is not my God is poverty to me."
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"Do not complain then of your poverty, my daughter, - we only complain of that which is unwelcome, and if poverty is unwelcome to you, you are no longer poor in spirit."
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"Devotees are not impressed by the poverty or wealth in material sense in any way; what impresses is devotion."
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"I will do anything, including highway robbery and murder, to avoid leaving my children in poverty."
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"If the poor only had profiles there would be no difficulty in solving the problem of poverty"
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"The proper aim is to try and reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible."
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"Wealth brings a heavy purse; poverty, a light spirit."
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"The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures that can be suggested, compared with the poverty of those that can at any time be felt."
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"The great advantage in noble parentage is that enables one to endure poverty more easily."
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"Rags, wretchedness, poverty and dirt, those signs and symbols that indicate the presence of [Muslim] rule more surely than the crescent-flag itself, abound."
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