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But in its final creation it was not the part of the Father's power to fail as though exhausted. It was not the part of His wisdom to waver in a needful matter through poverty of counsel.


Giovanni Pico della Mirandola


#creation #exhausted #fail #father #final

Trickle-down theories do not address the legitimate aspirations of the poor. We must lift those at the bottom so that poverty is erased from the dictionary of modern India.


Pranab Mukherjee


#aspirations #bottom #dictionary #erased #india

How the sting of poverty, or small means, is gone when one keeps house for one's own comfort and not for the comfort of one's neighbors.


Dinah Maria Mulock


#gone #house #how #keeps #means

If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way.


Anais Nin


#acted #being #come #every #fate

Poverty should not be viewed by us as a humiliation and even less so as a position of honour or a fatality.


Mathieu Kerekou


#fatality #honour #humiliation #less #position

If any man, out of an humour, should turn all his Estate into Money, and keep it dead, he would soon be sensible of Poverty growing upon him, whilst he is eating out of the quick stock.


Dudley North


#dead #eating #estate #growing #him

In their poverty, the mentally handicapped reveal God to us and hold us close to the gospel.


Henri Nouwen


#god #gospel #handicapped #hold #mentally

My first hero, as a teenager, was James Connolly. I remember discovering that he was a feminist, and that was an eye-opener, coming from a man of such poverty.


Frances O'Grady


#discovering #feminist #first #hero #i

An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated.


Madalyn Murray O'Hair


#believes #built #church #conquered #death

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.


Barack Obama


#asks #because #buck #certain #focusing






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