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Letter "P" » Poverty
«Many words are poverty.»
«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.»
«Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.»
«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.»
«Loves conquers all things except poverty and toothache.»
«Nothing incites to money-crimes like great poverty or great wealth»
«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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