"Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion."
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"The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can't solve extreme poverty and disease, isn't just mistaken. It is harmful."
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"I attempted to see famines as broad "economic" problems (concentrating on how people can buy food, or otherwise get entitled to it), rather than in terms of the grossly undifferentiated picture of aggregate food supply for the economy as a whole."
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"Poverty consist in feeling poor."
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"If you want riches, you must refuse to accept any circumstance that leads toward poverty."
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"The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid."
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"Little privations are easily endured when the heart is better treated than the body."
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"My family kinda hit the skids. We were experiencing poverty at that point. We all got a job, where the whole family had to work as security guards and janitors. And I just got angry."
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"The poverty line is like the age of consent: if you find yourself parsing exactly where it is, you’ve probably already done something very, very wrong."
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"Nothing is so much needed as a secure family life for a people seeking to rise out of poverty and backwardness."
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"We have done some of these in Bangladesh. Whenever I see a problem, I immediately go and create a company. That's what I did all my life."
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"For now I ask no more Than the justice of eating."
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"We must be afraid of neither poverty nor exile nor imprisonment; of fear itself only should we be afraid."
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"The worst thing about poverty is not the actual living of it, but the shame of it."
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"I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then."
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"I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely."
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"The old culture had come out of poverty, out of English customs."
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"Poverty makes you sad as well as wise."
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"China adopted a capitalist system in the 1980s, and they went from a 60% poverty rate to 10%."
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"The huge turnout for Live 8 here and around the world proves that thanks to the leadership from people like Tony Blair and Gordon Brown the world is beginning to demand more action on global health and poverty."
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