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“When you've cooked the marrow of the sun and moon, The pearl is so bright you don't worry about poverty.”

Loss Poverty Worry Sun Moon Disaster Pearls Marrow

Author:Sun Bu'er

“Stupas protect beings from 5 major disasters: war, epidemic diseases, famine, pollution, n poverty.”

War Poverty Protect Disease Majors Disaster Pollution Famine Epidemics

Author:Akong Rinpoche

“There are no quick fixes to Indigenous poverty and social disaster.”

Social Poverty Disaster Indigenous Quick Fixes

Author:Malcolm Fraser

“Many of my contemporaries in the developed world see subsistence farming as soulful and organic, but it is a poverty trap and an environmental disaster.”

World Poverty Environmental Disaster Traps Farming Soulful Subsistence

Book:Whole Earth Discipline: Why Dense Cities, Nuclear Power, Transgenic Crops, RestoredWildlands, and Geoengineering Are Necessary

Source: Whole Earth Discipline: Why Dense Cities, Nuclear Power, Transgenic Crops, RestoredWildlands, and Geoengineering Are Necessary

“If we remove the hope of profit as a means to alleviate misfortune - poverty, illness, misery, disaster - we shall increase our misfortunes and make them permanent.”

Ifs Mean Poverty Increase Misery Profit Illness Disaster Permanent Remove Misfortunes Alleviate

Author:Leonard Read

“Anecdote: The East End seemed to be in the grip of yet another economic crisis. ... By the winter of 1933, an army of the unemployed gathered daily outside the dock gates, desperate for a day or 2 paid work. .... There was no cushion, no disaster fund, no stashed savings, no government handouts no syrup that could sweeten the bitter pill of poverty.”

Ends Government Poverty Economic Army Paid Crisis Winter East Disaster Bitter Saving Desperate Fund Gates Pills Savings Unemployed Anecdotes Cushions Economic Crisis Docks Syrup Handouts

Author:Melanie McGrath

“Bhagavad Gita is very relevant to modern times when you see things like global warming, climate chaos, changing weather patterns, natural disasters like hurricane Katrina, extreme poverty, economic disparities, social injustice, war, and terrorism - these are the projection of a collective consciousness that's in disarray.”

War Natural Consciousness Poverty Economic Modern Chaos Injustice Terrorism Disaster Global Warming Relevant Katrina Natural Disaster Hurricane Katrina

Author:Deepak Chopra