"Let us work in partnerships between rich and poor to improve the opportunities of all human beings to build better lives."
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"Excellence in health means devoting your life to ending poverty."
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"Poverty is not an act of God. It is the result of flawed policy, and that is a moral challenge."
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"He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust."
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"Poverty with security is better than plenty in the midst of fear and uncertainty."
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"[Albert Camus] positions are sensed. So, naturally, those intellectuals who don't have that experience have difficulty in comprehending it. But I think it made Camus more tolerant because he had already seen both sides of things when the others had only ever seen one. They imagine poverty, but they don't know what it is. In fact they've got a sort of bad conscience about the working classes."
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"The conception of the necessary unit of all that is resolves itself into the poverty of the imagination, and a freer logic emancipates us from the straitwaistcoated benevolent institution, which idealism palms off as the totality of being."
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"It could be that one of the greatest hindrances to evangelism is the poverty of our own experience."
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"In Zen, poverty is voluntary, and considered not really as poverty so much as simplicity, freedom, unclutteredness."
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"I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable."
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"If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty."
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"The debt-habit is the twin brother of poverty."
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"Information without execution is poverty."
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"To give either to any public matter of interest or to any concern of my own, but I am in utter poverty by reason of my devotion to the god ."
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"Bobby Kennedy is so concerned with poverty because he didn't have any as a kid."
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"Economists are coming to acknowledge that measures of national wealth and poverty in terms strictly of average income tell you little that is significant of the health or viability of a society."
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"Poverty is a lot like childbirth - you know it is going to hurt before it happens, but you'll never know how much until you experience it."
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"I know of no system other than Hinduism under which a class has been set apart from generation to generation for the exclusive pursuit of divine knowledge and consigned to voluntary poverty."
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"Poverty is not deprivation, it is isolation."
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"Shallow understanding accompanies poor compassion; great understanding goes with great compassion."
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