"It is no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be."
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"On certain continents poverty is more spiritual than material, a poverty that consists of loneliness, discouragement, and the lack of meaning in life."
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"Our poverty is freedom. This is our poverty - the giving up our freedom to dispose of things, to choose, to possess"
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"The essential in this time of moral poverty is to create enthusiasm."
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"Poverty is easy to bear if it is only temporary, easier still if it is an entirely voluntary burden."
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"Foreign Assistance is not an end in itself. The purpose of aid must be to create the conditions where it's no longer need."
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"We should raise the minimum wage so that no one who works full time has to live in poverty"
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"Poverty is not dishonorable in itself, but only when it comes from idleness, intemperance, extravagance, and folly."
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"It's outrageous to line your pockets off the misery of the poor; It's outrageous, the crimes some human beings must endure."
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"Do we have the will to make poverty history?"
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"A person born with an instinct for poverty."
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"The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one the poverty bothers."
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"Those who have not, and live in want, are a menace, Ridden with envy and fooled by demagogues."
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"Poverty is an expensive luxury. We cannot afford it."
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"Ah, the poverty, the miserable poverty, of any love that lies outside of marriage, of any love that is not a living together, a sharing of all!"
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"Our inability to recall how we really felt is why our wealth of experiences turns out to be poverty of riches."
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"I began to realize that poverty was really more of a choice than anything else and that I could change that. And it just really depended on how hard I wanted to work."
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"Having grown up in dire poor, the thing that I hated the most in life was poverty."
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"I just hated poverty."
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"Prodigality of Time produces Poverty of Mind as well as of Estate."
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