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“There was no pomp and ceremony in connection with the birth of Jesus - rather the opposite: it took place in simplicity and in poverty.”

Jesus Poverty Birth Connections Opposites Simplicity Ceremony Jesus Birth

Author:Keith O'Brien

“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

“Neglect of an effective birth control policy is a never-failing source of poverty which, in turn, is the parent of revolution and crime.”

Turns Parent Poverty Failing Crime Policy Source Revolution Birth Neglect Birth Control

Author:Aristotle

“Man's birth is a lottery; it may be in the pleasant home of ease and affluence, or in the hut of poverty; in either case it may be a stain or an honor. If he is born in poverty, and his future life throws a lustre over an humble birth, the reward will not only be great, but his name will stand higher on the roll of honor and virtue, than he who can only boast of his proud descent.”

Ifs Men May Home Names Born Poverty Cases Virtue Proud Birth Higher Honor Rewards Humble Ease Pleasant Boast Stains Lottery Descent Affluence Huts Future Life

Author:James Ellis

“The Cairo conferenceis about a complicated web of education and employment, consumption and poverty, development and health care. It is also about whether governments will follow where women have so clearly led them, toward safe, simple and reliable choices in family planning. While Cairo crackles with conflict, in the homes of the world the orthodoxies have been duly heard, and roundly ignored.”

“But poverty, though it does not prevent the generation, is extremely unfavourable to the rearing of children. The tender plant is produced, but in so cold a soil, and so severe a climate, soon withers and dies.”

Children Doe Science Dies Poverty Generations Cold Birth Plant Climate Soil Severe

Book:An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

Source: An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

“Poverty fled, she who gives birth to virile men.”

Men Giving Poverty Birth

Author:Lucan

“The stark truth is that as long as the welfare state makes it possible for young women - or teenage girls - to have children without a husband and survive without a job, out-of-wedlock births will remain ruinously high, and the inner city will continue to be marked by crime, poverty, and despair.”

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Book:Libertarianism: A Primer

Source: Libertarianism: A Primer

“I've been into fashion since birth. I grew up in the 'hood, and everybody in the 'hood wants to compensate for being in poverty, so they want to look good to keep themselves up.”

Want Looks Poverty Fashion Grew Birth Grew Up Hood

Author:ASAP Rocky

“[The Americans] believe in the idea that a child shouldn't be consigned to poverty just because of circumstances of their birth.”

Believe Children Ideas Poverty Birth Circumstances

Author:Barack Obama

“One of the major causes of poverty is a lack of family planning. Governments and nonprofit organizations need to encourage poor people to use birth control so that they don't have unexpected babies, which will only make poorer families poorer.”

People Needs Use Government Causes Poor Poverty Baby Birth Majors Organization Planning Unexpected Poor People Birth Control Nonprofits Family Planning Causes Of Poverty

Author:Philip Kotler

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

Has Beens Two Bigs Born Poverty Wise Birth Advantage Sophia

Author:Sophia Loren