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“Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.”
Samuel Johnson
Happiness & Well-being
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“Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.”
Woody Allen
Money & Wealth
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“The rich would have to eat money, but luckily the poor provide food.”
Russian Proverb
Money & Wealth
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“Lack of money is the root of all evil.”
George Bernard Shaw
Money & Wealth
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“The rich man in his castle, The poor man at his gate, God made them, high or lowly, And ordered their estate.”
Cecil Frances
Relationships & People
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“Who, being loved, is poor?”
Oscar Wilde
Love & Relationships
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“Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.”
Mother Teresa
Spirituality & Faith
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“The drive toward complex technical achievement offers a clue to why the U.S. is good at space gadgetry and bad at slum problems.”
John Kenneth Galbraith
Technology & Innovation
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“Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.”
Bertolt Brecht
Money & Wealth
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“Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.”
Euripides
Life & Experience
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“You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.”
George Bernard Shaw
Emotions & Feelings
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