“And so I continue in borderline poverty, save for my one indulgence, no, my single absolute necessity: I take cabs. Yes, on occasion, when I wish to see what people with unpleasant skin conditions are wearing, I do take the subway. I have never, I am proud to say, taken the bus, because people who take the bus have given up.” PeopleGivenWishPovertyTakenConditionsProudSkinsAbsolutesOccasionsBusIndulgenceGiven UpSubwayCabBorderline Book:I Shudder: And Other Reactions to Life, Death, and New Jersey Source: I Shudder: And Other Reactions to Life, Death, and New Jersey
“Want is a bitter and a hateful good, Because its virtues are not understood; Yet many things, impossible to thought, Have been by need to full perfection brought. The daring of the soul proceeds from thence, Sharpness of wit, and active diligence; Prudence at once, and fortitude it gives; And, if in patience taken, mends our lives.” IfsWantNeedsGivingHas BeensSoulPovertyVirtueTakenOur LivesImpossibleUnderstoodPerfectionActiveWitBitterDaringPrudenceFortitudeHatefulDiligenceSharpness Book:Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)
“Rich Mullins was the uneasy conscience of Christian music. He didn't live like a star. He'd taken a vow of poverty so that what he earned could be used to help others.” HelpingChristianUsedStarsPovertyRichTakenConscienceHelping OthersVowUneasyChristian Music Author:Amy Grant
“California, because of their Equity Funding Formula, moves a step in that direction by sending more resources to communities and students that face greater levels of poverty. But California is doing that from a greater position of real weakness, because they were already so far behind other states in funding per student. It’s a step, but many more steps need to be taken.” NeedsRealStatesFacesMovingCommunityLevelsBehindsStepsPovertyTakenGreaterPositionStudentsWeaknessResourcesCaliforniaFormulasEquityFunding Author:Pedro Noguera
“We draw many benefits from globalization that people take for granted. Poverty has been reduced massively around the world. If you look at the Chinese numbers, it is quite mind-boggling: 700 million people taken out of poverty in a matter of 40 years, the poverty rate having moved from over 30 per cent from hardly six per cent now. That would not have happened if there had not been globalization.” PeopleIfsWorldYearsMindLooksHas BeensMatterNumbersPovertyMillionsTakenHappenedSixBenefitsDrawsMovedRateAround The WorldGrantedChineseCentsGlobalizationMind Boggling Author:Christine Lagarde
“I think Americans yearn for other alternatives to peace, than the path our government has currently taken, and perhaps why there is great interest in this book, and the message to fight poverty and ignorance with education.” ThinkingBookFightingInterestPovertyPathTakenIgnorance Author:Greg Mortenson
“He wondered if what he had taken for the richness of silence was really the poverty of never being heard [...]. How could he have forgotten what he had always known: there is no match for the silence of God.” IfsSilenceKnownPovertyTakenHeardForgottenRichness Author:Nicole Krauss
“It is this idea 'decency' should be attached to wealth -and 'indecency'' to poverty - that forms the core of one strand of skeptical complaint against the modern status-ideal. Why should failure to make money be taken as a sign of an unconditionally flawed human being rather than of a fiasco in one particular area if the far larger, more multifaceted, project of leading a good life? Why should both wealth and poverty be read as the predominant guides to an individual's morals ?” IfsShouldHumansIdeasFormIndividualWealthHuman BeingsMoralPovertyTakenModernParticularProjectsAreasIdealsGuidesCoreMaking MoneyGood LifeComplaintsFlawedDecencySkepticalStrandsFiascoWealth And Poverty Author:Alain de Botton