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Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty. ↗

— Malcolm Turnbull

#australia #cut #immigration #poverty #sentencing

You almost have to create situations in order to write about them, so I live in a constant state of self-imposed poverty. I don't want to live any other way. ↗

— Tom Waits

#almost #any #constant #constant state #create

If they think they have issues with the president not doing enough for the poor now, wait and see what happens if the opposition takes office. Then they would really need a poverty tour. ↗

— Cornel West

#enough #happens #issues #need #now

My mother's illness fitted into this protest against the treatment of the sick who could not pay, the inefficiency of commercialism, the waste, the extravagance, and the poverty. ↗

— Ellen Wilkinson

#commercialism #could #extravagance #fitted #illness

I was deeply concerned then, and have become more concerned since, that unless we can deal with the questions of development and the questions of poverty, there's no way that we're going to have a peaceful world for our children. ↗

— James Wolfensohn

#children #concerned #deal #deeply #development

So the first thing you need to do about conflict is to prevent it, and the best way of preventing it is by dealing with the question of poverty. ↗

— James Wolfensohn

#best #best way #conflict #dealing #first

Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse. ↗

— Anzia Yezierska

#learned #learned man #like #man #ornament

I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances. ↗

— Pam Grier

#circumstances #i #i came #part #poverty

That made me feel good, not to go to a resort where outside the door is extreme poverty. ↗

— Jasmine Guy

#extreme #extreme poverty #feel #feel good #go

My father was criticized as a dictator, but that should not overshadow his accomplishments in restructuring the country. He brought Korea out of 5,000 years of poverty. What he left unaccomplished was democratization of the system. ↗

— Park Geun-hye

#brought #country #criticized #democratization #dictator