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Poverty makes you wise but it's a curse. ↗

— Bertolt Brecht

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

— Coco Chanel

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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

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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

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The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as "Soho" poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

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And of course, we know that opportunity lies outside the reach of some of our people. We don't need flowery words about inequality to tell us that, and we don't need a party that has led while poverty and hunger rose to record levels to give us lectures about suffering. ↗

— Artur Davis

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

— Daniel Defoe

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Did you know that nearly one in three children live apart from their biological dads? Those kids are two to three times more likely to grow up in poverty, to suffer in school, and to have health and behavioral problems. ↗

— Tony Dungy

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Although they are some of the hardest working folks I know, rural Americans earn, on average, $11,000 less than their urban counterparts each year. And they are more likely to live in poverty. ↗

— Tom Vilsack

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Our team has a lot of talent. I hope that soon we will break out with four or five goals and avoid overtime. ↗

— Peter Bondra

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