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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

“The debt-habit is the twin brother of poverty.”

Poverty Brother Habit Debt Twins Twin Brother

Author:Theodore T. Munger

“Debt is the secret foe of thrift, as vice and idleness are its open foes. The debt habit is the twin brother of poverty.”

Secret Poverty Brother Habit Vices Debt Twins Foe Idleness Thrift Twin Brother

Author:Theodore T. Munger

“Poverty demoralizes. A man in debt is so far a slave; and Wall-street thinks it easy for a millionaire to be a man of his word, aman of honor, but, that, in failing circumstances, no man can be relied on to keep his integrity.”

Thinking Men Easy Poverty Failing Streets Wall Honor Circumstances Integrity Slave Debt Be A Man Millionaire

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Very early in my childhood I associated poverty, toil, unemployment, drunkenness, cruelty, quarreling, fighting, debts, jail with large families.”

Fighting Family Poverty Childhood Debt Cruelty Jail Unemployment Toil Drunkenness Large Family

Book:The Pivot of Civilization in Historical Perspective: The Birth Control Classic

Source: The Pivot of Civilization in Historical Perspective: The Birth Control Classic

“For a hundred years we have been one of the largest oil-producing countries in the world but with a 60 percent poverty rate and now we are canceling the historical debt.”

World Years Has Beens Country Poverty Percent Hundred Historical Rate Debt Oil

Author:Hugo Chavez

“It's God's will for you to live in prosperity instead of poverty. It's God's will for you to pay your bills and not be in debt.”

Wealth Pay Poverty Bills Prosperity Debt Gods Will Abundance

Author:Joel Osteen

“Being unemployed is even more disastrous for individuals than you'd expect. Aside from the obvious harm - poverty, difficulty paying off debts - it seems to directly affect people's health, particularly that of older workers.”

People Seems Individual Poverty Difficulty Workers Obvious Debt Harm Unemployed

Author:James Surowiecki

“I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.”

Source: Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson

“We are turning into a nation of whimpering slaves to Fear—fear of war, fear of poverty, fear of random terrorism, fear of getting down-sized or fired because of the plunging economy, fear of getting evicted for bad debts or suddenly getting locked up in a military detention camp on vague charges of being a Terrorist sympathizer.”

War Nations Poverty Economy Military Slave Terrorism Debt Terrorist Camps Locked Vague Hunters Locked Up Gonzo Detention

Book:Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness

Source: Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness

“The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.”

“I grew up hearing over and over, to the point of tedium, that "hard work" was the secret of success: "Work hard and you'll get ahead" or "It's hard work that got us where we are." No one ever said that you could work hard - harder even than you ever thought possible - and still find yourself sinking ever deeper into poverty and debt.”

Said Stills Hard Secret Poverty Hard Work Grew Grew Up Harder Deeper Hearing Debt Finding Yourself Sinking Get Ahead Secret To Success Tedium

Author:Barbara Ehrenreich