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Letter "P" » Poverty
«People who are much too sensitive to demand of cripples that they run races ask of the poor that they get up and act just like everyone else in society»
Author: Michael Harrington
(Activist, Writer)
| About:
People,
Poverty,
Society
| Keywords:
cripples, everyone else, races, sensitive
«Of course there's a different law for the rich and poor; otherwise, who would go into business? E»
«Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts»
Author: Saint John Chrysostom
| About:
Poverty,
Reason
| Keywords:
absurdities, concepts, strangest, substitutes, trusts
«Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world.»
Author: Kofi Annan
| About:
Poverty
| Keywords:
abject, billions, countries, developing, developing countries, industrialize, industrialized, markets, Open market, pulling, realistic, sustaining
«Once thrift shops hit your district it is a good sign that more citizens are being squeezed out of house and home.»
«One must be poor to know the luxury of giving»
«Painless poverty is better than embittered wealth»
Author: Greek proverb
| About:
Poverty,
Wealth
| Keywords:
embitter, embittered, embitters, painless
«Poor in my youth, and in life's later scenes - Rich to no end, I curse my natal hour, Who naught enjoyed while young, denied the means; And naught when old enjoyed, denied the power»
«Poor is the church without music»
«Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.»
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