#poverty

Stand-up comedy and poverty. Those were my two main endeavors. ↗

— Dave Foley

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I'm a real person, and I'm angry. I'm trying to use this celebrity thing to get people some help. AIDS, poverty, racism - I want to be one of the hands that helps stop all that. I'll put it on my shoulders. I'll charge it to my account. ↗

— Jamie Foxx

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For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred. ↗

— John W. Gardner

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Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim. ↗

— James A. Garfield

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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

#been #big #birth #born #had

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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Poverty is not inevitable. It is a human ill that we can fight if we decide to do so together. ↗

— Marc Forne Molne

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Of course I am frustrated with regard to extreme poverty, to violence that never seems to cease. ↗

— Roger Moore

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India is a land of plenty inhibited by poverty; India has an enthralling, uplifting civilization that sparkles not only in our magnificent art, but also in the enormous creativity and humanity of our daily life in city and village. ↗

— Pranab Mukherjee

#art #city #civilization #creativity #daily