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A man with an invention on which he has spent his life, but has no means to get it developed for the good of humanity - or even patented for himself - must feel the pinch of poverty very acutely. ↗

— James Payn

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A nobler example, because a less personal one, of the pinch of poverty, is when it prevents the accomplishment of some cherished scheme for the benefit of the human race. ↗

— James Payn

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Today continuing poverty and distress are a deeper and more important cause of international tensions, of the conditions that can produce war, than previously. ↗

— Lester B. Pearson

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I was a very poor young black boy in New Orleans, just a face without a name, swimming in a sea of poverty trying to survive. ↗

— Tyler Perry

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The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles. ↗

— Plato

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As an actress for most of my life, I am profoundly familiar with poverty. ↗

— Martha Plimpton

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The correlation between poverty and obesity can be traced to agricultural policies and subsidies. ↗

— Michael Pollan

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Rather than dividing the world between good and evil, the Left divided the world in terms of economics. Economic classes, not moral values, explained human behavior. Therefore, to cite a common example, poverty, not one's moral value system, or lack of it, caused crime. ↗

— Dennis Prager

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In opposition to this detachment, he finds an image of man which contains within itself man's dreams, man's illness, man's redemption from the misery of poverty - poverty which can no longer be for him a sign of the acceptance of life. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

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I mean, the world has already done a big, big effort to forget debt to countries heavily indebted and with low income. And that has given good chances to countries to get out of poverty. ↗

— Rodrigo Rato

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