#subsist

Contrasting sharply, in the developing countries represented by India, Pakistan, and most of the countries in Asia and Africa, seventy to eighty percent of the population is engaged in agriculture, mostly at the subsistence level. ↗

— Norman Borlaug

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In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will. ↗

— Alexander Hamilton

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You need education. You need subsistence protection. We need jobs and social security. These are preconditions under which it will perhaps be possible to deal with these complex circumstances. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

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Xenophobia manifests itself especially against civilizations and cultures that are weak because they lack economic resources, means of subsistence or land. So nomadic people are the first targets of this kind of aggression. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

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The subsistence mentality of a person is a prison in which his personal joy is detained. If you want to live in joy, you don't live for yourself alone. Live for others too! ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

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All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the world - have not any subsistence without a mind. ↗

— George Berkeley

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Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence. ↗

— Charles Darwin

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As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there. ↗

— John Donne

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Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

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