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“Just 8% of the $409bn spent on fossil-fuel subsidies in 2010 went to the poorest 20% of the population.”

Climate Change Population Fuel Fossils Poorest Fossil Fuel Subsidies

Author:Fatih Birol

“...while God has done his part in creating a world capable of providing what we need, we have not done our part in the stewardship of it, in seeing that it gets to the end of the line, to the poorest and neediest--the children.”

World Needs Children Ends Done Lines Seeing Creating Capable Providing Stewardship Poorest

Book:Too Small to Ignore: Why the Least of These Matters Most

Source: Too Small to Ignore: Why the Least of These Matters Most

“None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its Use and Vertue.”

Use Creatures Insects Poorest

Book:Astell: Political Writings

Source: Astell: Political Writings

“Whether we are poor among the poorest, or less poor among the wealthier, let us stand proud and noteworthy, united and strong, comforted by our belonging to the Community of the Free Nations of our Planet.”

Strong Nations Community Poor United Planets Proud Belonging Our Planet Poorest

Author:Mathieu Kerekou

“Shaped like Texas, but twice as big, Mali is one of the poorest countries in the world. It exports almost nothing - mostly just cotton, gold and livestock - and doesnt have enough money to import much of anything, either.”

World Country Enough Bigs Gold Texas Poorest Cotton Imports Livestock Mali

Author:Richard Engel

“Mobile phone technology can help to bring financial services to the 80 percent of African women who do not have a bank account and bolster the growth of the world's poorest continent. It's not just about empowering women, it's about economic growth. Unless we can make access to finance easier for women in their businesses, we will be missing out on a significant portion of growth within our economies”

“The rates of soda consumption in our poorest communities cannot be explained by individual consumer preferences alone, but rather are linked to broader issues of access and affordability of healthy foods in low-income neighborhoods, and to the marketing efforts of soda companies themselves.”

“The poorest person on earth is the person without faith.”

Persons Earth Poorest

Book:Rediscovering Faith: Understanding the Nature of Kingdom Living

Source: Rediscovering Faith: Understanding the Nature of Kingdom Living

“The globe has been circumnavigated, but no man ever yet has; you may survey a kingdom and note the result in maps, but all the savants in the world could not produce a reliable map of the poorest human personality.”

Men World Humans May Has Beens Results Produce Personality Notes Kingdoms Maps Globes Poorest Surveys Human Personality Savants

Book:Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country

Source: Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country

“A good prince will tax as lightly as possible those commodities which are used by the poorest members of society: grain, bread, beer, wine, clothing, and all other staples without which human life could not exist.”

Humans Used Taxes Members Wine Bread Beer Human Life Clothings Grain Commodity Poorest Staples

Book:The education of a Christian prince

Source: The education of a Christian prince

“Let us never accept the point of view that mysteries are written by hacks. The poorest of us shed our blood over every chapter. The best of us start from scratch with every new book.”

Book Views Accepting Written Mystery Blood Point Of View Chapters Shed Scratches Poorest Hacks New Books

Book:Raymond Chandler Speaking

Source: Raymond Chandler Speaking

“The richest princes and the poorest beggars are to have one great and just judge at the last day who will not distinguish betweenthem according to their ranks when in life but according to the neglected opportunities afforded to each. How much greater then, as the opportunities were greater, must be the condemnation of the one than of the other?”

Lasts Opportunity Wealth Greater Judging Judgment Neglected Beggar Poorest Condemnation Last Day Judgment Day

Book:A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments: a facsimile reproduction

Source: A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments: a facsimile reproduction

“We have imagined ourselves a special creation, set apart from other humans. In the last twentieth century, we see that our povertyis as absolute as that of the poorest nations. We have attempted to deny the human condition in our quest for power after power. It would be well for us to rejoin the human race, to accept our essential poverty as a gift, and to share our material wealth with those in need.”

“Looking at these issues as a businessman, I believe that investing in the world's poorest people is the smartest way that our government spends money.”

People World Way Believe Government I Believe Poverty Issues Investing Businessman Poorest

Author:Bill Gates

“I would be the last to deny that the greatest scientific pioneers belonged to an aristocracy of the spirit and were exceptionally intelligent, something that we as modest investigators will never attain, no matter how much we exert ourselves. Nevertheless ... I continue to believe that there is always room for anyone with average intelligence ... to utilize his energy and ... any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain, and that even the least gifted may, like the poorest land that has been well-cultivated and fertilized, produce an abundant harvest.”

“Think of the poorest person you know and see if your next act will be of any use to him.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Persons Use Next Poorest

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“We, at least, are not loyal men: we confess to having more respect and honour for the raggedest child of the poorest labourer in Ireland today than for any, even the most virtuous, descendant of the long array of murderers, adulterers and madmen who have sat upon the throne of England.”

Men Children Long Today England Sat Honour Loyal Ireland Virtuous Thrones Murderer Poorest Madmen Descendants Labourers

Book:Labour in Irish history ; The re-conquest of Ireland ; Socialism and nationalism

Source: Labour in Irish history ; The re-conquest of Ireland ; Socialism and nationalism

“The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Сrown. It may be frail - its roof may shake - the wind may blow through it - the storm may enter - the rain may enter - but the King of England cannot enter.”

Men May Law Force Wind Kings Rain England Blow Storm Libertarian Shakes Crowns Roof Defiance Poorest Frail Cottages Tenements

Author:William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham

“Take a book, the poorest one written, but read it with the passion that it is the only book you will read. Ultimately, you will read everything out of it, that is, as much as there was in yourself, and you could never get more out of reading, even if you read the best of books.”

Ifs Book Passion Reading Written Poorest

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“Maybe we need a tax credit for the poorest Americans to buy a laptop. Now, maybe that's wrong, maybe that's expensive, maybe we can't do it, but I'll tell you, any signal that we can send to the poorest Americans that says, 'We're going into a 21st century, third-wave information age, and so are you, and we want to carry you with us.'”

Want Needs Age Century Information Internet Taxes Thirds Wave Credit Expensive Free Speech 21st Century Signals Poorest Laptops Information Age

Author:Newt Gingrich

“The unconsidered act of the poorest of men may fire the train that leads to the subterranean mine, and an empire be rent by the explosion.”

Men May Fire Mines Train Empires Explosions Poorest

Book:Morals and Dogma

Source: Morals and Dogma

“Climate change disasters will displace more and more. Those who are most exposed are the poorest.”

Change Climate Climate Change Disaster Exposed Poorest

Author:Jan Egeland

“The poorest people in the world (particularly in low-lying areas) will suffer the most if we do not take action on climate change... that calls for any tactic that might call attention to the problem.”

People Ifs World Problem Might Action Lying Suffering Change Attention Lows Areas Climate Climate Change Tactics Poorest

Author:Jason David Frank

“But the improvements will happen faster and last longer if we can channel market forces, including innovation that's tailored to the needs of the poorest, to complement what governments and nonprofits do. We need a system that draws in innovators and businesses in a far better way than we do today.”

Ifs Way Needs Government Happens Today Lasts Force Draws Innovation Environmental Including Improvement Faster Sustainability Better Ways Poorest Innovators Complement Nonprofits Tailored

Author:Bill Gates

“The poorest Americans use three time the energy as the percentage of their income as the average American does. This is going to disproportionately hurt the poor. It may make the whole electric grid unstable, depending on how it is enforced. And it does nothing for the climate.”

May Doe Whole Use Three Energy Hurt Poor Climate Average Income Electric Three Times Percentages Poorest Unstable Grids

Author:Charles Koch

“No other group has internalized its self-hatred as much as blacks have. It would be difficult to find other groups who behave similarly in that their most esteemed members berate its poorest members.”

Self Would Be Difficult Groups Members Hatred Behave Poorest Self Hatred

Author:Michael Eric Dyson

“Good cookery is not an extravagance but an economy, and many a tasty dish is made by our Continental friends out of materials which would be discarded indignantly by the poorest tramp in Whitechapel.”

Made Would Be Economy Food Materials Cooking Culinary Dishes Poorest Discarded Extravagance Cookery Tramps Tasty Continental Good Cook Whitechapel

Book:In Darkest England and the Way Out

Source: In Darkest England and the Way Out

“Young women don't want to be called feminists because it's not sexy and ah they think that their mothers and grandmothers have achieved everything they want. They don't know how poor women live, how women in rural places live, how 80 percent of women in the world are the poorest of the poor, how still there are 27 million slaves, and most of them women and girls.”

Thinking Knows World Want Stills Young Mother Girl Poor Millions Know How Percent Slave Feminist Sexy Grandmother Young Women Poorest Mother And Grandmother

Author:Isabel Allende

“I would bend the knee before the poorest scavenger, the poorest untouchable in India for having participated in crushing him for centuries; I would even take the dust off his feet.”

Feet Century India Dust Knees Crush Poorest Untouchables

Book:Young India

Source: Young India

“Many rich and powerful men would pay dearly to see the Lord or His Most Pure Mother, but God does not appear in riches, but in the humble heart... Every one of the poorest men can be humbles and come to know God. It need neither money nor reputation to come to know God, but only humility.”

“Modern science is a catalyst agent to fulfil the needs of humankind. We must ensure that it reaches to poorest of the poor.”

Needs Poor Education Modern India Agents Humankind Poorest Catalyst Modern Science

Author:Narendra Modi

“Society and Government should together give priority to the poorest of poor and make efforts to provide affordable health services.”

Giving Should Government Together Poor Effort India Priorities Governance Poorest Affordable Health Services

Author:Narendra Modi

“The poorest man may, in his cottage, bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail, its roof may shake; the wind may blow though it; the storm may enter; the rain may enter; but the King of England may not enter; all his force dares not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement.”

Men May Force Liberty Wind Kings Rain Crosses England Blow Dare Storm Libertarian Shakes Libertarianism Crowns Roof Ruined Defiance Poorest Threshold Frail Cottages Tenements

Author:William Pitt

“The education here intended in not merely that of the children of the rich and noble, but of every rank and class of people, down to the lowest and the poorest. It is not too much to say that schools for the education of all should be placed at convenient distances, and maintained at the public expense.”

People Should Children School Education Class Rich Too Much Distance Noble Expenses Lowest Convenient Poorest

Book:The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

“We do not kill the drama, we do not really limit its appeal by failing to encourage the best in it; but we do thereby foster the weakest and poorest elements.”

Failing Drama Limits Elements Appeals Poorest

Author:George P. Baker

“Among civilized and thriving nations, on the contrary, though a great number of people do no labor at all, many of whom consume the produce of ten times, frequently of a hundred times more labour than the greater part of those who work; yet the produce of the whole labour of the society is so great, that all are often abundantly supplied, and a workman, even of the lowest and poorest order, if he is frugal and industrious, may enjoy a greater share of the necessaries and conveniencies of life than it is possible for any savage to acquire.”

People Ifs May Whole Order Nations Enjoy Numbers Greater Share Produce Ten Hundred Labor Contrary Acquire Labour Civilized Savages Lowest Poorest Industrious Workmen Frugal

Author:Adam Smith

“The world is too little aware of the waste of life, limb and land which anti-personnel landmines are causing among some of the poorest people on earth.”

People World Littles Earth Land Waste Limbs Poorest Personnel Waste Of Life Landmines

Author:Princess Diana

“The deepest work is usually the darkest. A brave woman, a wisening woman, will developing the poorest psychic land, for if she builds only on the best land of her psyche, she will have for a view the least of what she is. So do not be afraid of the worst. It only guarantees increase of soul power through fresh insights and opportunities for re-visioning one's life and self anew.”

Ifs Soul Self Opportunity Views Land Worst Increase Brave Insight Developing Guarantees Psychics Poorest Brave Women Soul Power

Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes

“Economist and Africa expert Collier analyzes why a group of 50 nations, home to the poorest one billion people, are failing. Considering issues such as civil war, dependence on extractive industries, and bad governance, he argues that the strongest industrialized countries must enact a plan to help with international policies and standards.”

“The state and its elites must be subject, in theory and in practice, to the same laws that its poorest citizens are.”

States Law Practice Subjects Theory Citizens Elites Poorest

Author:Mo Ibrahim

“Even the poorest street is rich with people on it and even the richest street is poor without people on it!”

People Poor Rich Streets Poorest

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“We need to ensure the poorest in the planet - who will be hardest hit by the financial crisis - are not forgotten.”

Needs Planets Crisis Forgotten Financial Hardest Poorest Financial Crisis Hardest Hit

Author:Kofi Annan

“How do you know if the next act you are about to do is the right one or the wrong one? Consider the face of the poorest and most vulnerable human being that you have ever chanced upon, and ask yourself if the act that you contemplate will be of benefit to that person; and if it will be, it's the right thing to do, and if not, rethink it.”

Ifs Knows Humans Persons Faces Next Asks Human Beings Benefits Vulnerable Things To Do Right Thing Do You Know Contemplating Poorest

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“It could be a sign of pride in your life if a word of reproof or admonition is not able to be received with the same grace, whether it be given by the poorest of saints or the most educated person.”

Ifs Persons Able Given Grace Pride Saint Educated Poorest Admonition Educated Person Reproof

Author:John Bunyan

“I realized that I had the call to take care of the sick and the dying, the hungry, the naked, the homeless - to be God's Love in action to the poorest of the poor. That was the beginning of the Missionaries of Charity.”

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Author:Mother Teresa

“The best food I've ever eaten in my life has come from the poorest communities.”

Community Poorest Best Food

Author:Jamie Oliver

“People need to remember that to balance the federal budget off the backs of the poorest people in the country is simply unacceptable. You don't pull feeding tubes from people. You don't pull the wheelchair out from under the child with muscular dystrophy.”

People Needs Children Country Remember Balance Budgets Feeding Poorest Tubes Wheelchairs Muscular Dystrophy

Author:Mike Huckabee

“The soul of the poorest child is of equal dignity with the soul of Adam.”

Children Soul Equal Dignity Adam Poorest

Book:A treatise of the soul of man: wherein the divine original, excellent and immortal nature of the soul are opened; its love and inclination to the body, with the necessity of its separation from it, considered and improved; the existence, operations, and states of separated souls, both in heaven and hell, immediately after death, asserted, discussed, and variously applied; divers knotty and difficult questions about departed souls both philosophical, and theological, stated and determined; the invaluable preciousness of human souls, and the various artifices of Satan (their professed enemy) to destroy them, discovered; and the great duty and interest of all men, seasonably and heartily to comply with the most great and gracious design of the Father, Son, and Spirit, for the salvation of their souls, argued and pressed

Source: A treatise of the soul of man: wherein the divine original, excellent and immortal nature of the soul are opened; its love and inclination to the body, with the necessity of its separation from it, considered and improved; the existence, operations, and states of separated souls, both in heaven and hell, immediately after death, asserted, discussed, and variously applied; divers knotty and difficult questions about departed souls both philosophical, and theological, stated and determined; the invaluable preciousness of human souls, and the various artifices of Satan (their professed enemy) to destroy them, discovered; and the great duty and interest of all men, seasonably and heartily to comply with the most great and gracious design of the Father, Son, and Spirit, for the salvation of their souls, argued and pressed

“It is a ludicrous statistic plucked out of the air and used to justify a quite appalling attack on many of the poorest people in this country.”

People Country Used Air Justify Poorest

Author:Jeremy Corbyn

“The Mongols consumed a steady diet of meat, milk, yogurt, and other dairy products, and they fought men who lived on gruel made from various grains. The grain diet of the peasant warriors stunted their bones, rotted their teeth, and left them weak and prone to disease. In contrast, the poorest Mongol soldier ate mostly protein, thereby giving him strong teeth and bones.”

Source: Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World