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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


#developed #even #feel #get #good

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


#because #benefit #cherished #example #human

Today continuing poverty and distress are a deeper and more important cause of international tensions, of the conditions that can produce war, than previously.


Lester B. Pearson


#conditions #continuing #deeper #distress #important

The present Arab uprising didn't stem from Israel. The old guard is trying to keep down the young chickens. The old guard is better organized. They may win elections, but unless they have a solution to poverty, to corruption, to oppression, they will not last. I am with the young people.


Shimon Peres


#arab #better #chickens #corruption #down

The problem of the Middle East is poverty more than politics.


Shimon Peres


#middle #middle east #more #politics #poverty

As Jews, their families left Russia to escape the poverty and the antisemitism.


Martin Lewis Perl


#escape #families #jews #left #poverty

I was a very poor young black boy in New Orleans, just a face without a name, swimming in a sea of poverty trying to survive.


Tyler Perry


#boy #face #i #just #name

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


Sophia Loren


#been #big #birth #born #had

I tend to get cast as a certain type of quiet, almost introverted person who's strong on the inside, but the characters are so very different I don't see it as any kind of typecasting.


Kelly Macdonald


#any #cast #certain #characters #different

I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.


Niccolo Machiavelli


#interested #not interested #overthrow #preserving #quo






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