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“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

“Like an odorless gas, [inequality] pervades every corner of the United States and saps the strength of the country's democracy. But it seems impossible to find the source and shut it off.”

Country States Seems United Poverty United States Democracy Impossible Source Corners Inequality Gas Sap

Author:George Packer

“God makes all chosen souls pass through a fearful time of poverty, misery, and nothingness. He desires to destroy in them gradually all the help and confidence they derive from themselves so that He may be their sole source of support, their confidence, their hope, their only resource.”

May Soul Helping Desire Religious Poverty Support Source Resources Encouragement Misery Chosen Fearful Sole Nothingness

Book:Abandonment to Divine Providence

Source: Abandonment to Divine Providence

“In fact, everything that emanates from source emanates from a source of well-being. When we take on this ego consciousness, when we take on hate rather than love in our hearts, we create all of this divisiveness, and we create all of the problems, the struggles, the difficulties, the diseases, the poverty.”

Wells Heart Facts Problem Hate Consciousness Poverty Struggle Source Ego Disease Difficulty Well Being Emanate Divisiveness

Author:Wayne Dyer

“We come from an abundant, endlessly providing, always forthcoming, always giving source. If we would just stay like that, if we would be forthcoming and giving and sharing and allowing, excluding no one, then it wouldn't be possible to have wars in the Middle East, or poverty in Africa, or any of these kinds of things.”

Ifs Giving Kind War Would Be Poverty Middle Source East Allowing Middle East Providing Forthcoming

Author:Wayne Dyer

“Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness. A policy to reduce the loneliness of the elderly would certainly reduce suffering.”

Suffering Poverty Loneliness Policy Emotional Source Elderly Emotional Suffering

Author:Daniel Kahneman

“What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.”

Needs Might Spiritual Science Wealth Interesting Attention Poverty Information Source Internet Obvious Rationality Overabundance

Author:Herbert Simon

“Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness.”

Suffering Poverty Loneliness Emotional Source Emotional Suffering

Author:Nassim Nicholas Taleb