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For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.
John W. Gardner
Politics
Poverty
Every
Hundred
Talent
Stimulated
I am a huge admirer of Franklin Roosevelt's, and I believe social security has done untold good in alleviating the once-widespread issue of poverty among the elderly. FDR believed in the greatness and generosity of Americans - but he was also a cold-blooded politician.
Jon Meacham
Good
Poverty
Politician
Believe
Franklin
Security
Admirer
Alleviating
He
Generosity
Untold
Also
Am
Issue
Huge
Greatness
American
Done
Social
Elderly
Roosevelt
Social Security
Believed
Among
I don't want to be an apologist for poverty, but I can't stand waste, useless spending, wasted energy and having to live squandering stuff.
Jose Mujica
Poverty
Energy
Live
Spending
Having
Stuff
Squandering
Want
Stand
Useless
Waste
Wasted
Poverty is a solved problem - all they have to do is abolish taxes and regulations which cripple those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women and destroy their productive capacity, then stand back and watch the economy boom.
L. Neil Smith
Women
Problem
Men
Men And Women
Poverty
Back
Boom
Cripple
Those
Destroy
Responsible
Solved
Abolish
Economy
Intelligent
Which
Capable
Capacity
Taxes
Then
Stand
Productive
Regulations
Watch
We can win respect in the world only if we are strong internally and can banish poverty and unemployment from our country.
Lal Bahadur Shastri
Respect
World
Strong
Win
Poverty
Country
Our
Only
Unemployment
Banish
There are many different rivers that lead into despair: there's poverty; there's political repression; there's gender apartheid - there's a sense of culture loss; there's religious fanaticism.
Lawrence Wright
Culture
Political
Gender
Poverty
Sense
Despair
Religious
Lead
Rivers
Loss
Different
Repression
Fanaticism
Apartheid
Many
This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.
Lyndon B. Johnson
War
Poverty
This Administration
Administration
Unconditional
Now
Here
We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism.
Madeleine Albright
Freedom
Democracy
Terrorism
Fight
People
World
Will
Poverty
Stage
Intimidated
Pushed
Like
Off
Disease
Against
Stand
Who
World Stage
It's as if we live in a house which has a vast treasury in one of its rooms. Only we've forgotten about it. So, instead of living a life of royalty, we go about in poverty.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Life
Poverty
Live
Living
About
Only
Vast
Instead
House
Go
Forgotten
Which
Rooms
Treasury
Royalty
The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Man
Wealth
Fears
Poverty
Rich
Poor Man
Despised
Latter
He
Conceal
Wishes
His
Former
Poor
Rich Man
Lest
I'm obsessed about lifting the greatest number of Argentines possible out of poverty as quickly as possible.
Mauricio Macri
Poverty
Out
Possible
About
Lifting
Obsessed
Greatest
Greatest Number
Quickly
Number
Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient.
Milton Berle
Poverty
Terribly
Disgrace
Inconvenient
Unprecedented technological capabilities combined with unlimited human creativity have given us tremendous power to take on intractable problems like poverty, unemployment, disease, and environmental degradation. Our challenge is to translate this extraordinary potential into meaningful change.
Muhammad Yunus
Environmental
Change
Creativity
Problems
Challenge
Poverty
Power
Extraordinary
Tremendous
Our
Unlimited
Intractable
Degradation
Unprecedented
Given
Potential
Take
Combined
Like
Unemployment
Disease
Human
Capabilities
Translate
Meaningful
Us
Technological
Boosting education will be a direct counterbalance to Boko Haram's appeal. In particular we must educate more young girls, ensuring they will grow up to be empowered through learning to play their full part as citizens of Nigeria and pull themselves up and out of poverty.
Muhammadu Buhari
Education
Learning
Will
Girl
Poverty
Young
Ensuring
Out
Must
Citizens
Direct
More
Through
Part
Particular
Empowered
Educate
Up
Young Girls
Themselves
Full
Appeal
Grow
Grow Up
Play
Nigeria
Pull
Worrying about bills, food, or other problems leaves less capacity to think ahead or to exert self-discipline. So, poverty imposes a mental tax.
Nicholas Kristof
Food
Problems
Poverty
Think
Other
Worrying
About
Mental
Self-Discipline
Exert
Leaves
Tax
Capacity
Less
Bills
Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regardless of social standing, that's where you see the sharp limitations of market-based health care.
Paul Farmer
Health
You
Care
Poverty
National
Extreme
Extreme Poverty
Promise
See
Sharp
Health Care
Health Insurance
Limitations
Insurance
Where
Regardless
Anywhere
Social
Standing
Every year, I hear about Thanksgiving. Who do one give thanks to? ... And who is giving thanks? What are they giving thanks for? For lots of poverty that's on the earth and lots of war that is a-rumoring all over the earth? For lots of people who die daily and the crime that multiply?
Peter Tosh
War
Thanksgiving
Daily
People
Crime
Giving
Poverty
Year
Thanks
Every
Earth
About
Give
Over
Hear
Lots
Die
Who
Multiply
I foresee that poverty and obscurity probably await me, and I am in some measure prepared and daily preparing to meet them.
Robert Burns
Daily
Me
Poverty
Meet
Some
Obscurity
Am
Foresee
Them
Measure
Await
Prepared
Preparing
Abortion is defended today as a means of ensuring the equality and independence of women, and as a solution to the problems of single parenting, child abuse, and the feminization of poverty.
Robert Casey
Today
Parenting
Women
Equality
Abortion
Problems
Independence
Poverty
Single
Ensuring
Solution
Abuse
Child
Child Abuse
Means
Defended
It is development, not poverty, that causes upheaval and terrorism.
Robert D. Kaplan
Terrorism
Poverty
Development
Causes
Upheaval
Economists are coming to acknowledge that measures of national wealth and poverty in terms strictly of average income tell you little that is significant of the health or viability of a society.
Rowan Williams
Health
You
Wealth
Poverty
National
Society
Strictly
Tell
Significant
Economists
Terms
Coming
Viability
Acknowledge
Little
Average
Measures
Income
It is unacceptable that someone can work full time - and work hard - and not be able to lift themselves out of poverty.
Sherrod Brown
Work
Time
Work Hard
Poverty
Unacceptable
Out
Able
Someone
Lift
Themselves
Full
Hard
Full-Time
Poverty and ignorance, which beget terror, are not eradicated by firing artillery shells. Borders do not stop rockets, and barbed wire does not prevent terror.
Shimon Peres
Ignorance
Poverty
Borders
Prevent
Wire
Firing
Terror
Does
Shells
Eradicated
Rockets
Artillery
Stop
Which
Barbed
Barbed Wire
Groups that rose from poverty to prosperity seldom did so by having their own racial or ethnic leaders to follow.
Thomas Sowell
Prosperity
Poverty
Own
Rose
Follow
Having
Seldom
Leaders
Did
Racial
Ethnic
Groups
This is what people don't understand: obesity is a symptom of poverty. It's not a lifestyle choice where people are just eating and not exercising. It's because kids - and this is the problem with school lunch right now - are getting sugar, fat, empty calories - lots of calories - but no nutrition.
Tom Colicchio
People
Problem
School
Poverty
Lunch
Sugar
Symptom
Nutrition
Kids
Obesity
Eating
Lifestyle
Empty
Because
Exercising
Understand
Calories
Lots
Getting
Diet
Just
Where
The Problem With
Choice
Now
Right
Fat
Trade creates jobs and lifts people out of poverty. And when that happens, societies stabilize and grow. And there is nothing like a stable society to fight terrorism and strengthen democracy, freedom and rule of law.
Dennis Hastert
Freedom
Democracy
Terrorism
Fight
People
Law
Poverty
Nothing
Society
Rule
Rule Of Law
Out
Jobs
Lifts
Like
Trade
Stabilize
Stable
Happens
Creates
Grow
Societies
Strengthen
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