"Who, being loved, is poor?"
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"There's no nobility in poverty."
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"And when you're poor, you grow up fast."
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"For me the only point that has remained unchanged through the years is that in India there is still so much poverty."
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"Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life."
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"I should never seek a job in my life, my mission in life is to create jobs. I am not a job seeker, I am a job giver."
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"a society in which there is widespread economic insecurity can turn freedom into a barren and vapid right for millions of people."
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"We should make the poor uncomfortable and kick them out of poverty."
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"When an ecstatic is asked the question, What is it that love dares the self to do? she will answer: Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty."
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"This detachment (poverty, chastity, etc.) must not be mere amputation; everything which is shaken off must be simultaneously found again at a higher level."
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"In the affairs of this world, poverty alone is without envy."
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"Poverty is the mother of crime."
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"When the men of antiquity realized their wishes, benefits were conferred by them on the people. If they did not realize their wishes, they cultivated their personal character, and became illustrious in the world. If poor, they attended to their own virtue in solitude; if advanced to dignity, they made the whole empire virtuous as well."
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"I think, social business is the most logical thing to do. If we had done that, we could reduce all the problems we have."
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"It's going to take an act of Congress to deal with poverty and hunger, not only in this country, but throughout the world. We have the resources but we don't have the will."
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"Poverty makes you wise but it's a curse."
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"It’s been proven that of all the interventions to reduce poverty, improving agricultural productivity is the best."
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"Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks"
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"Affluence creates poverty."
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"I never look at the masses as my responsibility. I look at the individual. I can love only one person at a time. I can feed only one person at a time. Just one, one, one."
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