"The proper amount of wealth is that which neither descends to poverty nor is far distant from it."
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"It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend."
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"He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich."
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"If you are in poor health, you can remedy it. If your personal relationships are unsatisfactory, you can change them for the better. If you are in poverty, you can find yourself surrounded by abundance... Each of you, regardless of position, status, circumstances, or physical condition, is in control or your own experience."
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"I have opened up an account With God's Heart-Bank. Therefore, I see nowhere The battering waves of poverty-thoughts."
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"Many of my contemporaries in the developed world see subsistence farming as soulful and organic, but it is a poverty trap and an environmental disaster."
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"Free enterprise has done more to reduce poverty than all the government programs dreamed up by Democrats."
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"Poverty comes pleading not for charity, for the most part, but imploring us to find a purchaser for its unmarketable wares."
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"What Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end."
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"The spinning wheel and the spinning wheel alone will solve, if anything will solve, the problem of the deepening poverty of India."
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"Quick riches are more dangerous than poverty."
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"Poverty is no disgrace. But it is certainly not a recommendation."
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"They're the problems of poverty, of the rights of the individual, of the changes brought about by technology. They're the ones that count, more than religion!"
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"There is little favorable to be said about poverty, but it was often an incubator of true friendship."
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"Cinna wishes to seem poor, and is poor"
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"Capitalism, the ogre of those protesting Wall Street, has suffered a public relations crisis in the wake of the global economic collapse. But any remedy to the systemic corruption that led to the collapse should not displace recognition that capitalism creates wealth. Capitalism, and no other economic system, has raised millions from poverty around the world."
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"Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor"
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"The accumulation of wealth is a process which is of itself morally neutral. True, as Christianity teaches, riches bring temptations. But then so does poverty."
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"If the experts are right in their calculations, then we face the prospect of millions of people retiring into poverty from the American middle class in the years ahead. That has all kinds of social and economic consequences. We need to anticipate those and start tackling the problem in a constructive way."
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"Poverty does not produce unhappiness: It produces degradation."
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