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«Many words are poverty.»
Author: Greek proverb | About: Poverty, Words
«Let us, above all, be clear that, without a convincing program of debt relief to start the new millennium, our objective of halving world poverty by 2015 will be only a pipe dream.»
Author: Kofi Annan | About: Poverty | Keywords: convincing, debt, halve, halved, halving, millennia, millennium, objective, pipe, pipe dream, program, relief, The Millennium
«Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin (Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer) | About: Laziness, Poverty, Travel | Keywords: laziness, overtaken, overtakes, overtaking, slowly, travels
«Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.»
Author: Henry Fielding (Novelist, Playwright) | About: Poverty
«No man can tell whether he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.»
Author: Henry Ward Beecher | About: Heart, Poverty, Wealth | Keywords: according, ledger, turning
«Loves conquers all things except poverty and toothache.»
Author: Mae West (Actress) | About: Love, Poverty | Keywords: conquers, toothache, toothaches
«Nothing incites to money-crimes like great poverty or great wealth»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | About: Influence, Poverty | Keywords: incite, incites
«Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | About: Poverty | Keywords: necessaries, superfluities, superfluity
«Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields which have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes»
Author: Victor Hugo (Dramatist, Novelist, Poet) | About: Life, Misfortune, Poverty, Solitude | Keywords: abandonment, battlefields, illustrious, isolation, misfortunes, obscure
«Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.»
Author: Woody Allen (Actor, Author, Film Director, Screenwriter) | About: Money, Poverty | Keywords: financial
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