"Better poverty without care, than riches with."
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"There are levels of poverty in South Africa that are totally unacceptable."
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"Desires repeatedly mastered for the sake of present duty make us richer. Lack of desire is poverty."
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"I had to get rich so I could afford to sing like I was poor again."
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"Bhagavad Gita is very relevant to modern times when you see things like global warming, climate chaos, changing weather patterns, natural disasters like hurricane Katrina, extreme poverty, economic disparities, social injustice, war, and terrorism - these are the projection of a collective consciousness that's in disarray."
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"[Albert] Camus' was born in Algeria of French nationality, and was assimilated into the French colony, although the French colonists rejected him absolutely because of his poverty."
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"This is the even-handed dealing of the world!" he said. "There is noth-ing on which it is so hard as poverty; and there is nothing it professes tocondemn with such severity as the pursuit of wealth!"
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"For the poor any choice was a gift with two faces."
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"Feel like a broke-down engine, ain't got no drivin' wheel. You all been down and lonesome, you know just how a poor man feels."
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"Sufficiency isn't two steps up from poverty or one step short of abundance. It isn't a measure of barely enough or more than enough. Sufficiency isn't an amount at all. It is an experience, a context we generate, a declaration, a knowing that there is enough, and that we are enough."
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"Poverty is the great reality. That is why the artist seeks it."
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"What we face in Canada are multiple overlapping crises. We have the climate crisis, which is screaming down on us - all of the predictions are coming true even faster than the scientists thought. We have the inequality crisis, where the Panama Papers are a great reminder that the one per cent have actually created their own economy. We still have the crisis of child poverty, which has never been dealt with despite decades of concerned words from politicians."
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"To discover one's own spiritual poverty is to achieve a positive conquest by the spirit."
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"And makes me poor indeed."
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"The first proof of charity in a priest, and especially a bishop, is poverty."
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"If it were (Is it not) outrageous that society should treat with such rigid precision those of its members who were most poorly endowed in the distribution or wealth that chance had made, and who were, therefore, most worthy of indulgence."
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"There are wars and poverty and so on - it's based on fear. You can cure that with your being by not being afraid."
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"Submission to poverty is the unpardonable sin against the body. Submission to unhappiness is the unpardonable sin against the spirit."
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"Poverty needs much, avarice everything."
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"Not he who has little, but he whose wishes more, is poor."
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