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Let me first say that I don't think the millennium target of cutting global poverty in half is an impossible or abstract target. I think it is a real and achievable goal. ↗

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

#cutting #first #global #goal #half

Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity. ↗

— Coco Chanel

#opposite #people #poverty #some #some people

Physical hunger and physical poverty is something I could only imagine. I've been poor when I was in China... As kids we never had to starve, but just didn't have enough meat, enough rice. ↗

— Joan Chen

#china #could #enough #had #hunger

When you stop thinking about yourself all the time, a certain sense of repose overtakes you. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#certain #overtakes #repose #sense #stop

Being a writer is a very private, internal process. Ultimately I am more the writer, being an introvert. ↗

— Paula Cole

#being #i #i am #internal #introvert

To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#begs #bespeaks #bread #daily #daily bread

My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger. ↗

— Billy Connolly

#definition #intellectual #listen #lone #lone ranger

As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares. ↗

— Daniel Defoe

#evil #poverty #root #snares #worst

How often do the poor daydream of a better life? Plenty, no doubt, and where does it get them? It is the poor who begin with a daydream and realize at some point that they have to get up, roll their sleeves, and start doing something about those day dreams who succeed. And there are many who have. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#mind-power #poverty #stephen-richards #wealth-creation #dreams

Those born into poverty or on the margins of society require our extra support to realize their dreams. ↗

— Novak Djokovic

#dreams #extra #into #margins #our