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“I mean, the world has already done a big, big effort to forget debt to countries heavily indebted and with low income. And that has given good chances to countries to get out of poverty.”

World Mean Country Done Bigs Given Chance Forget Effort Poverty Lows Debt Income Indebted Good Chance Low Income

Author:Rodrigo Rato

“Countries should think of Haiti not as a place where to do charity but a place where to invest and do business. And doing business in Haiti means poverty reduction.”

Thinking Should Mean Country Poverty Charity Reduction Haiti Poverty Reduction

Author:Laurent Lamothe

“I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.”

Source: Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin

“How the sting of poverty, or small means, is gone when one keeps house for one's own comfort and not for the comfort of one's neighbors.”

Mean House Poverty Gone Comfort Neighbor

Author:Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

“Morality and religion are but words to him who fishes in gutters for the means of sustaining life, and crouches behind barrels in the street for shelter from the cutting blasts of a winter night.”

Mean Night Behinds Poverty Cutting Streets Morality Ethics Winter Fishes Shelter Blast Barrels Sustaining Gutters Morality And Religion Winter Night Sustaining Life

Author:Horace Greeley

“We must begin by acknowledging that there is a complete absence of two things in Indian Society. One of these is equality. On the social plane we have an India based on the principles of graded inequality, which means elevation for some and degradation for others. On the economic plane we have a society in which there are some who have immense wealth as against many who live in abject poverty.”

Mean Two Social Wealth Principles Poverty Economic India Absence Inequality Indian Planes Two Things Immense Degradation Elevation

Author:B. R. Ambedkar

“The child was diseased at birth, stricken with a hereditary ill that only the most vital men are able to shake off. I mean poverty-the most deadly and prevalent of all diseases.”

Men Mean Children Able Poverty Birth Disease Ill Shakes Diseased Hereditary

Book:Contour in Time: The Plays of Eugene O'Neill

Source: Contour in Time: The Plays of Eugene O'Neill

“There was a nobility in poverty when I was growing up. My mom was poor but she was planting roses and she was cleaning the steps, you know what I mean. You didn't feel sorry for yourself.”

Knows Feels Mean Poor Steps Poverty Growing Up Growing Mom Rose Sorry My Mom Cleaning Nobility Feel Sorry For You

Author:Ricky Gervais

“Don't be a writer, it's a terrible way to live your life, there's nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you really are burning to do it, then go ahead and do it.”

Ifs Way Mean Poverty Terrible Taste Solitude Burning Live Your Life Obscurity Way To Live

Author:Paul Auster

“If exclusive privileges were not granted, and if the financial system would not tend to concentrate wealth, there would be few great fortunes and no quick wealth. When the means of growing rich is divided between a greater number of citizens, wealth will also be more evenly distributed; extreme poverty and extreme wealth would be also rare.”

Ifs Mean Would Be Wealth Numbers Poverty Rich Greater Growing Citizens Fortune Financial Privilege Extremes Granted Divided Exclusive Financial System Extreme Poverty

Author:Denis Diderot

“Bravery is a mean state concerned with things that inspire confidence and with things fearful ... and leading us to choose danger and to face it, either because to do so is noble, or because not to do so is base. But to court death as an escape from poverty, or from love, or from some grievous pain, is no proof of bravery, but rather of cowardice.”

Mean States Pain Faces Poverty Danger Inspire Concerned Bravery Court Noble Proof Fearful Cowardice

Book:The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle

Source: The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle

“Poverty is never dishonourable in itself, but only when it is a mark of sloth, intemperance, extravagance, or thoughtlessness. When, on the other hand, it is the handmaid of a sober, industrious, righteous, and brave man, who devotes all his powers to the service of the people, it is the sign of a lofty spirit that harbours no mean thoughts”

People Men Mean Hands Spirit Poverty Mark Brave Righteous Sober Lofty Sloth Brave Man Extravagance Industrious Harbour Intemperance Handmaids Thoughtlessness

Author:Plutarch

“He that would be content with a mean condition must not cast his eye upon one that is in a far better estate than himself, but let him look upon him that is lower than he is, and, if he see that such a one bears poverty comfortably, it will help to quiet him.”

Ifs Looks Mean Helping Would Be Eye Poverty Conditions Bears Quiet Casts His Eyes Look Up Estates

Book:The Works of Anne Bradstreet

Source: The Works of Anne Bradstreet