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Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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I want to fight poverty and ignorance and give opportunity to those people who are locked out. ↗

— Russell Simmons

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Poverty and lack of knowledge must be challenged. ↗

— Russell Simmons

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What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it. ↗

— Herbert Simon

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We need to recognise that what really matters isn't buying more and more consumer goods, but family, friends, and knowing that we are doing something worthwhile with our lives. Helping to reduce the appalling consequences of world poverty should be part of that reassessment. ↗

— Peter Singer

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My top most priority is to deal with India's massive social and economic problems, so that chronic poverty, ignorance and disease can be conquered in a reasonably short period of time. ↗

— Manmohan Singh

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The Indian economy grew at 5.5 percent, but if you look at the last 30 years - for example, 1960 to 1985 - the progress made by East Asian countries was phenomenal. In a single generation they had been able to transform the character of their economy. They were able to get rid of chronic poverty. ↗

— Manmohan Singh

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I was very introverted. I had glasses and was kind of weird. A lot of actors are pretty weird people. ↗

— Jennifer Sky

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Anything can happen in SF. And the fact that nothing ever does happen in SF is only due to the poverty of our imaginations, we who write it or edit it or read it. But SF can in principle deal with anything. ↗

— John Sladek

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The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations. ↗

— Adam Smith

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