#poverty

There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty. ↗

— Titus Livius

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The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty. ↗

— Sophia Loren

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That first responsibility as a school board member - meals for latch-key children - was absolutely critical in my understanding of the extraordinary problems of poverty. ↗

— Richard Lugar

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I fundamentally believe that politics is counterintuitive. The left think they're helping working people by providing more rights, but all that actually happens is you create poverty and despair, because jobs go to your competitors who have fewer rights for workers. ↗

— Louise Mensch

#because #believe #competitors #create #despair

I thought in this country, the best social program was a job. Yet minimum wage jobs aren't paying enough to keep families out of poverty. ↗

— Barbara Mikulski

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As of today, we do not need expert reports by the authoritative analytical institutions to realise that the reasons for such a situation in our community lie in global inequality, poverty and illiteracy. ↗

— Nursultan Nazarbayev

#authoritative #community #expert #global #illiteracy

Poverty is the only load which is the heavier the more loved ones there are to assist in bearing it. ↗

— Jean Paul

#bearing #heavier #load #loved #loved ones

A great philosopher has stated that the worst evil of poverty is, that it makes folks ridiculous; by which, I hope, he only means that, as in the above case, it places them in incongruous positions. ↗

— James Payn

#case #evil #folks #great #hope

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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