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“Stay away from lazy parasites, who perch on you just to satisfy their needs, they do not come to alleviate your burdens, hence, their mission is to distract, detract and extract, and make you live in abject poverty.”

Needs Poverty Burden Missions Lazy Parasites Alleviate False Friends

Author:Michael Bassey

“The right of individual property is no doubt the very corner-stone of civilization, as hitherto understood; but I am a little impatient of being told that property is entitled to exceptional consideration because it bears all the burdens of the state. It bears those, indeed, which can be most easily borne, but poverty pays with its person the chief expenses of war, pestilence, and famine.”

Source: Essays, English and American

“All I desire is, that my poverty may not be a burden to myself, or make me so to others; and that is the best state of fortune that is neither directly necessitous nor far from it. A mediocrity of fortune, with gentleness of mind, will preserve us from fear or envy; which is a desirable condition; for no man wants power to do mischief.”

Men Want Mind May States Desire Poverty Conditions Fortune Burden Envy Preserves Mediocrity Desirable Gentleness Mischief

Author:Seneca the Younger

“Our task today is to bring India to the threshold of the twenty-first century, free of burden of poverty, legacy of our colonial past, and capable of meeting the rising aspirations of our people.”

People Firsts Today Past Poverty Century Capable Tasks India Twenties Meetings Burden Legacy Aspiration Rising Threshold

Book:Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi: statements on foreign policy, May-August 1985

Source: Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi: statements on foreign policy, May-August 1985

“The burden of poverty isn't just that you don't always have the things you need, it's the feeling of being embarrassed every day of your life, and you'd do anything to lift that burden.”

Needs Feelings Poverty Burden Lifts Embarrassed

Author:Jay-Z

“The burden of health care shouldn't be borne by the poorest families. We should have equity within health systems so that families are able to cope with serious illness and not be driven into poverty and relationship breakdown because they don't have access to health care.”

Should Care Able Poverty Serious Should Have Illness Burden Driven Access Health Care Equity Poorest Breakdown Health System Serious Illness

Author:Mary Robinson

“We all wish to live. We all seek a world in which men are freed of the burdens of ignorance, poverty, hunger and disease. And we shall all be hard-pressed to escape the deadly rain of nuclear fall-out should catastrophe overtake us.”

Men World Should Hard Fall Wish Poverty Ignorance Disease Rain Hunger Burden Nuclear Catastrophe

Author:Haile Selassie

“The music enchanted the air. It was like the south wind, like a warm night, like swelling sails beneath the stars, completely and utterly unreal... It made everything spacious and colourful, the dark stream of life seemed pulsing in it; there were no burdens any more, no limits; there existed only glory and melody and love, so that one simply could not realize that, at the same time as this music was, outside there ruled poverty and torment and despair.”

Made Night Stars Realizing Dark Poverty Air Wind Limits Despair Glory And Love South Burden Warm Streams Melody Sail Torment Unreal Enchanted Swelling Colourful

Book:Three Comrades

Source: Three Comrades