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We must powder our wigs; that is why so many poor people have no bread. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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To seek "causes" of poverty in this way is to enter an intellectual dead end because poverty has no causes. Only prosperity has causes. ↗

— Jane Jacobs

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Society was cut in two: those who had nothing united in common envy; those who had anything united in common terror. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

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It is a good thing to know what it is to be poor, and a better thing if you can do it in company. ↗

— Marilynne Robinson

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Poverty is the frontier we have to be able to cross. ↗

— Ricardo Lagos

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The United States cannot feed every person, lift every person out of poverty, cure every disease, or stop every conflict. But our power and status have conferred upon us a tremendous responsibility to humanity. ↗

— Richard Lugar

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The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished, derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes during the nineteenth century. ↗

— Alfred Marshall

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Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn't trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity. ↗

— Jim Carrey

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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

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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

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