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“I really like the reggae concepts like the culture vibe. They speak on everything that's going on, they don't have limits. They speak on politics, they speak on life, they speak on the troubles of poverty, everything. The message, the melodies and the concepts of reggae music are unbelievable.”

Culture Speak Poverty Trouble Limits Messages Concepts Melody Unbelievable Reggae Reggae Music

Author:Sean Kingston

“There is a saying in Tibetan that "at the door of the miserable rich man sleeps the contented beggar". The point of this saying is not that poverty is a virtue, but that happiness does not come with wealth, but from setting limits to one's desires, and living within those limits with satisfaction.”

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Author:Dalai Lama

“For, when you are approaching poverty, you make one discovery which outweighs some of the others. You discover boredom and mean complications and the beginnings of hunger, but you also discover the great redeeming feature of poverty: the fact that it annihilates the future. Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry.”

Mean Facts Certain Poverty Worry Limits Discovery Hunger Features Boredom Complication Redeeming

Book:Down and Out in Paris and London

Source: Down and Out in Paris and London

“So much talent comes from the base of poverty and those in the margins. You limit the base, you miss too much talent.”

Poverty Too Much Talent Missing Limits Margins

Author:Jesse Jackson

“Love has no limits. Compassion has no party. It is the responsibility of every human being and every institution to end poverty and to interrupt injustice.”

Humans Ends Human Beings Party Responsibility Compassion Poverty Limits Institutions Injustice

Author:Shane Claiborne

“What do you think this very difficult situation will push? Especially in the hearts of those who are facing the starvation, facing the unemployment, facing this siege, facing the tragedy of their families - the poverty of their families. Some of them, they didn't find food to eat. What do you expect from them? In spite of death, our people are still patient. But patience has limits.”

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Author:Yasser Arafat

“War, famine, poverty and oppression of the workers will continue while woman makes life cheap. They will cease only when she limits her reproductivity and human life is no longer a thing to be wasted.”

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Book:Woman and the New Race

Source: Woman and the New Race

“I believe in a relatively equal society, supported by institutions that limit extremes of wealth and poverty. I believe in democracy, civil liberties, and the rule of law. That makes me a liberal, and I’m proud of it.”

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Author:Paul Krugman

“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.”

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Book:Three Comrades

Source: Three Comrades

“Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry.”

Certain Poverty Worry Limits Thrive

Book:Down and Out in Paris and London

Source: Down and Out in Paris and London