Top 100 Poverty Life Quotes

#1. You can't change things. That's life. Poor stays poor, rich says rich, and those two, they will never meet.

Antonia Michaelis

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#2. Fortunately, I have money that's from my life's work. But it's money that I share and used greatly to fight poverty in my country.

Vicente Fox

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#3. Complexes can be the feelings of guilt, a victim complex, and fear of failure, criticism, poverty, and loneliness, loss of love, success, insecurity, denial, and low self-esteem

Sunday Adelaja

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#4. What was life like ?
deprivation and abundance, side by side like a miracle. surrender to them both .
Poverty and sunshine, poverty and jewels in the sky .
Drought and the gushing Nile
Disease and clean hearts, stories from neighbours and relationships .

Leila Aboulela

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#5. Poverty in a big city is more humiliating and deadening to all the joys of life than it can possibly be elsewhere.

Albert Bigelow Paine

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#6. We always have a choice of going after positive or negative, prosperity or poverty, health or disease, success or failure.

Hina Hashmi

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#7. Poverty is when there is no food and a child is forced to fill its stomach with water for the night.

Matsime Simon Mohapi

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#8. I knew how severe I had been and how bad things had been. The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one who poverty bothers.

Ernest Hemingway,

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#9. If the rich could hire other people to die for them, the poor could make a wonderful living.

Yiddish Proverb

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#10. It's pretty obvious that Western lifestyles which rely on gigantic amounts of electricity use up far more resources than a subsistence-based life. A little more poverty would be a good thing.

Tom Hodgkinson

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#11. There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death. Whether it's the mundane violence we do to our bodies by overeating toxic food or drink or the extreme violence of child abuse, domestic warfare, life-threatening poverty, addiction, or state terrorism.

Bell Hooks

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#12. Nobody has to do anything wrong to end up living a life that feels like it's not their own, all they have to do is take a step back, and hope for the best.

Craig Stone

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#13. Growing in poverty imparted a certain DNA in the life of their children.

Santiago "Jimmy" Mellado

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#14. As I looked at material and spiritual poverty in the world around me, including approximately 2 billion people who haven't even heard the gospel, I knew that I needed to make some major changes in my life.

David Platt

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#15. In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle.

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#16. A Nuns Life: Chastity, poverty, and obedience. Wait, chastity? BUMPER STICKER

Darynda Jones

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#17. None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty.

Henry David Thoreau

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#18. Capitalists control the machineries. They create difficulties to the workers. Consequently rationalism , which has to lead the way for peaceful life to all, has resulted in causing poverty and worries to the people because of dominating forces

Periyar E.V. Ramasamy

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#19. When the purse becomes empty, the mind becomes full of issues.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

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#20. The irony of man's fate reflected in his image: that all men, from beggar to emperor, from harlot to queen, from ragged clerk to Pope, must come to this. No matter what their poverty or power in life, all is vanity, equalized by death.

Barbara W. Tuchman

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#21. It's not about success and failure. It's not about good days and bad days. It's not about wealth or poverty. It's not about health or sickness. It's not even about life or death. It's about glorifying God in whatever circumstance you find yourself in.

Mark Batterson

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#22. Whereas in the old days one acquired eternal happiness by the grace of God, now too often the eternal happiness seems to have become like an aged and infirm pensioner who sustains his life in the house of the rich on the wretched crust of poverty.

Soren Kierkegaard

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#23. Since I became First Minister, I have made clear my priority to alleviate poverty and tackle inequality in Scotland. Ensuring that everyone can do better in life will not only make Scotland fairer, but it will also make it a more prosperous place.

Nicola Sturgeon

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#24. Being born into poverty does not mean you are condemned to spend the rest of your life in poverty.

Kevin Harrington

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#25. What is life worth if one has nothing to give away? This lack, it seems to me, must be the sharpest pang of poverty.

Mabel Osgood Wright

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#26. Life, struggle, even amidst pain and blood and poverty, seemed beautiful.

Ngugi Wa Thiong'o

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#27. I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.

Anatole France

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#28. MT [Mother Teresa] was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty. She said that suffering was a gift from God. She spent her life opposing the only known cure for poverty, which is the empowerment of women and the emancipation of them from a livestock version of compulsory reproduction.

Christopher Hitchens

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#29. I saw the poverty; I say the prosperity. Both have fundamental problems.

Debasish Mridha

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#30. You see, it is my passionately held belief that the right to possess property is at best a contingent one. When disparities become too great, a superior right, that to life, outweighs the right to property. Ergo, the very poor have the right to steal from the very rich.

Mohsin Hamid

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#31. You breathed on me and made my life a richer one to live, when I was deep in poverty you taught me how to give. Dried the tears up from my dreams and pulled me from my hole, quenched my thirst and satisfied the burning in my soul.

Bob Dylan

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#32. And even when our lives are good, how do we live in joy when so many others are suffering: when crushing poverty robs people of their future, when violence and terror fill our streets, and when ecological devastation endangers the very possibility of life on our planet?

Dalai Lama XIV

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#33. India is a land of plenty inhibited by poverty; India has an enthralling, uplifting civilization that sparkles not only in our magnificent art, but also in the enormous creativity and humanity of our daily life in city and village.

Pranab Mukherjee

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#34. I've come across a lot of people in my life who talk about poverty and talk about the poor, but you rarely have a sense that it matters to them to the point at which they will be willing to sacrifice something.

Kumi Naidoo

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#35. Poverty might make you obscure, but if you continue churning out wisdom to solve more problems and challenges, you will neither remain poor nor die in obscurity.

Archibald Marwizi

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#36. Wealth and honor, benefits and blessings shall enrich my life; poverty and failures, grief and anxiety shall help fulfill it. In my life, I will serve heaven and earth; in death I will find peace.

Zhang Zai

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#37. Silently, sadly, the earth covered life coinage is read both ways; so much vs. so little and ... so little vs. ... so much!

Wes Adamson

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#38. Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.

Sean O'Casey

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#39. Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled.

Barack Obama

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#40. There are so many things that are incompatible with a single life. No one can learn fully in one life the lessons of unbroken health and of bodily sickness, of riches and of poverty, of study and action, of comradeship and isolation, of defiance and of obedience, of virtue and of vice.

J.M.E. McTaggart

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#41. However important the struggle is and however much misery and poverty and degradation exist, we know that it cannot be more important than one human life.

Cesar Chavez

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#42. Think on blessings and not curses, beauty not ugliness, health not sickness. Meditate on wealth not poverty, success not failure, grace not disgrace!

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

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#43. Hardship bred a bitter, quickfire humour and resilience to all but the most terminal of life's tragedies.

Ian Rankin

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#44. A true prayer is an inventory of needs, a catalog of necessities, an exposure of secret wounds, a revelation of hidden poverty.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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#45. Some days I am the flower beneath the machine. And the machine rolls slowly on, blocking the sun, without a care for what it tramples beneath.

Craig Stone

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#46. Poverty is such a relative thing; but no man is really poor till life becomes a desert island that gives him neither food nor shelter nor hope.

Jennifer Worth

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#47. Poverty will leave you when you are ready to welcome opportunities.

Debasish Mridha

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#48. A healthier, less impoverished planet is good for all of us. From an economic standpoint, it allows people to contribute more to the marketplace and lead productive lives. U.S. foreign assistance opens new markets to U.S. goods and services and creates new trading partners and allies.

Mike Huckabee

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#49. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are the fields of battle which have their heroes; obscure heroes, who are, sometimes, grander than the heroes who win renown.

Victor Hugo

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#50. What will support you consists in your gift, so until you find yourself you will be poor

Sunday Adelaja

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#51. Fasting will break poverty from your life.

Jentezen Franklin

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#52. Poverty is the mother of invention

Sunday Adelaja

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#53. Death and life, success and failure, pain and pleasure, wealth and poverty, all these happen to good and bad alike, and they are neither noble nor shameful - and hence neither good nor bad.

Marcus Aurelius

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#54. You can get over a million dollars worth of life insurance in case you die, but only eight to ten bucks and hour to live

Stanley Victor Paskavich

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#55. It is not only poverty that torments the Negro; it is the fact of poverty amid plenty. It is a misery generated by the gulf between the affluence he sees in the mass media and the deprivation he experiences in his everyday life.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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#56. Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

Woody Allen

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#57. I'd support life extension by whatever means, from cryonic suspension to cyborgism to coding ourselves into our computers or whatever. There is nothing noble or beautiful or dignified about dying. Like poverty, it is ugly, nasty, brutal and primitive.

Robert Anton Wilson

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#58. Remember, no more effort is required to aim high in life, to demand abundance and prosperity, than is required to accept misery and poverty.

Napoleon Hill

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#59. Income inequality has no necessary connection with poverty, the lack of material resources for a decent life, such as adequate food, shelter, and clothing. A society with great income inequality may have no poor people, and a society with no income inequality may have nothing but poor people.

Robert Higgs

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#60. Poverty is relative, and the lack of food and of the necessities of life is not necessarily a hardship. Spiritual and social ostracism, the invasion of your privacy, are what constitute the pain of poverty.

Alice Foote MacDougall

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#61. Sleep doesn't come easy when a broken twig conjures images of a hulking mental patient snapping the arms off children, over by the bin.

Craig Stone

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#62. As we come to know the seriousness of the situation, the war, the racism, the poverty in our world, we come to realize that things will not be changed simply by words or demonstrations. Rather, it's a question of living one's life in a drastically different way.

Dorothy Day

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#63. I never felt I could give up my life of freedom to become a man's housekeeper. When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she became a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll. Had I married at twenty-one, I would have been either a drudge or a doll for fifty-five years. Think of it!

Susan B. Anthony

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#64. We are precarious. Which is to say some good things (accumulation of diverse
knowledges, skills and abilities through work and life experiences in permanent
construction), and a lot of bad ones (vulnerability, insecurity, poverty, social
exposure).

Lisa Adkins

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#65. Whatever may be said in praise of poverty, the fact remains that it is not possible to live a really complete or successful life unless one is rich.

Wallace D. Wattles

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#66. Life is an extended camping trip. With a leaky, inferior tent one runs no more risk of rain than anyone else; but if it does rain, the person in the cheap tent chances soaking in his sleeping bag, and possibly dying of hypothermia.

William T. Vollmann

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#67. Battling through poverty was not my forte, and I didn't have the inkling of eluding them.

Fernando Lachica

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#68. I went into a church and simply said, 'Goodbye.' It is the terrible unfairness of life. How could God allow cancer, poverty, the sheer unfairness of so many lives? That is the question which finishes it for me.

Ruth Rendell

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#69. Whatever change you desire for the world, create that change in your own life. You are here for a purpose. Seek it out. Hunt it down. The greatest misery is to be purposeless. The great depression of our age is not economic, but spiritual. Our spiritual poverty is rooted in our purposelessness.

Matthew Kelly

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#70. The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

John F. Kennedy

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#71. One of the things that people aren't aware of is how much progress is being made in eradicating poverty and providing a healthier life and longevity for people around the world.

Kathy Calvin

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#72. If America does not use her vast resources of wealth to end poverty and make it possible for all of God's children to have the basic necessities of life, she too will go to hell.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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#73. The poor love life as passionately as the rich do. Perhaps more, for the effort it takes to cling to it.

Joan Thomas

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#74. We are asked to orient our "strategies" and "tactics" around poverty and material immiseration at a time when revolutionary sentiment is being generated by the banality of life under conditions of material abundance.

Murray Bookchin

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#75. The time will come when all people will view with horror light way in which society and its courts of law now take human life; and when that time comes, the way will be clear to device some better method of dealing with poverty and ignorance and their frequent byproducts, which we call crime.

Clarence Darrow

Poverty Life Quotes #3508
#76. In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms

John Steinbeck

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#77. -To Javed-
My way of life is poverty, not the pursuit of wealth;
Barter not thy Selfhood; win a name in adversity.

Muhammad Iqbal

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#78. Managing your money does not depend upon becoming wealthy or declaring vows of poverty. Rather, it is about creating stability and sufficiency - a balanced flow of monetary energy through your life.

Dan Millman

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#79. Holiness consists in doing God's will joyfully. Faithfulness makes saints. The spiritual life is a union with Jesus: the divine and the human giving themselves to each other. The only thing Jesus asks of us is to give ourselves to him, in total poverty and total self-forgetfulness.

Mother Teresa

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#80. The exultation of poverty as a spiritual virtue is of the ego, not the spirit. A person acting from a motivation of contribution and service rises to such a level of moral authority that worldly success is a natural result.

Marianne Williamson

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#81. As a child I experienced firsthand the severe effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially upon women and children. My parents taught me the importance of education and that it was a key to improving an individual's life.

Naveen Jain

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#82. I took to writing at an early age to escape from meaninglessness, uselessness, unimportance, insignificance, poverty, enslavement, ill health, despair, madness, and all manner of other unattractive, natural and inevitable things.

William, Saroyan

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#83. By and large, the poor do not want some small life. They don't want to game the system or eke out an existence; they want to thrive and contribute.

Matthew Desmond

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#84. No matter how much I wanted all those things that I needed money to buy, there was some devilish current pushing me off in another direction
toward anarchy and poverty and craziness. That maddening delusion that a man can lead a decent life without hiring himself out as a Judas Goat.

Hunter S. Thompson

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#85. Wealth brings with it refinement, the spirit of conservation, while poverty inspires adventurous ideas, the desire to change things, and has little care for life.

Jose Rizal

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#86. As for life therefore, and death, honour and dishonour, labour and pleasure, riches and poverty, all these things happen unto men indeed, both good and bad, equally; but as things which of themselves are neither good nor bad; because of themselves, neither shameful nor praiseworthy.

Marcus Aurelius

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#87. You attract poverty when you lack value for time

Sunday Adelaja

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#88. My family moved to the Philippines when I was 14. While living there, I learned that my mom grew up very poor. Seeing that kind of abject poverty firsthand during my travels deeply shaped my life. Seeing those living conditions motivated me to want to tell inspiring stories of struggle and triumph.

Manny Pacquiao

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#89. Politics, poverty, riches, etc - these are but backdrops for the grand cinema, the opera: the glory of your life. Sure, change the backdrops, make them better, but it is this inside-ness that matters most. Nothing else, at the last breath, matters, but your very own poetry. The glory of living.

Alex Ebert

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#90. You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live

William Shakespeare

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#91. The reason that the World Trade Center got hit is because there are a lot of people living in abject poverty out there who don't have any hope for a better life.

Ted Turner

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#92. It takes intelligence and training, self-discipline and fine-sensibility, to gain renewed life through leisure occupation. America now suffers spiritual poverty, and art must become more fully American life before her leisure can become culture.

Hans Hofmann

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#93. Throwing young men out of work, throwing people into poverty and ending business life don't promote stability in the Palestinian territories,.

Chris Patten

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#94. Amidst the crowd, tumbling like a stone, although lying on the roads, I'm but a life.

Waheed Ibne Musa

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#95. An atheist believes that a hospital
should be built instead of a church.
An atheist believes that deed must
be done instead of prayer said.
An atheist strives for involvement in life
and not escape into death.
He wants disease conquered,
poverty vanished, war eliminated.

Madalyn Murray O'Hair

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#96. You are destined to reign in life. You are called by the Lord to be a success, to enjoy wealth, to enjoy health, and to enjoy a life of victory. It is not the Lord's desire that you live a life of defeat, poverty, and failure.

Joseph Prince

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#97. They would sweep their poverty under the carpet if only they had one.

Ljupka Cvetanova

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#98. I knew there was a way out. I knew there was another kind of life because I had read about it. I knew there were other places, and there was another way of being.

Oprah Winfrey

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#99. The worker picked up Pakhom's spade, dug a grave, and buried him - six feet from head to heel, exactly the amount of land a man needs.

Leo Tolstoy

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#100. But however secure and well-regulated civilized life may become, bacteria, Protozoa, viruses, infected fleas, lice, ticks, mosquitoes, and bedbugs will always lurk in the shadows ready to pounce when neglect, poverty, famine, or war lets down the defenses.

Hans Zinsser

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