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Creative new health strategies like micro-insurance for poor people or Kangaroo care for pre-term babies are transforming health outcomes in even the most low-resource settings. Dedication and innovation are transforming health care worldwide.
Liya Kebede
Babies
Care
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That is not enough. Sport has been great for me, a great learning place that if you want to achieve you can, even if you are from the poorest part of Africa.
Haile Gebrselassie
Sport
Great
Place
Want
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Modern life is so thin and shallow and fake. I look forward to when developers go bankrupt, Japan gets poorer and wild grasses take over.
Hayao Miyazaki
Modern life
Shallow
Developers
Go bankupt
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Books
Enough
Good
Life
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I grew up in this poor place, with very limited circumstances, at about 16 years of age was sent by my family to work, and instead of remaining in the position into which I was sent, I somehow worked my way out of it without any help from anyone, just luck.
Jamaica Kincaid
About
Age
Any
Anyone
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I have no credentials. I have no money. I literally come from a poor place. I was a servant. I dropped out of college. The next thing you know I'm writing for the 'New Yorker,' I have this sort of life, and it must seem annoying to people.
Jamaica Kincaid
Annoying
College
Come
Credentials
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No man can tell whether he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is in the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has
Henry Ward Beecher
No man
Tell
Rich
Poor
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False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; shame is with poverty, but confidence with wealth.
Hesiod
False shame
Poor
Harms
Greatly
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We should govern our actions by assuming that people are more good than bad. Whereas, most of our social policies dictate that people are more bad than good. That you know if you do something, it'll be seized by the rich to exploit the poor.
James Watson
Actions
Assuming
Bad
Dictate
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The rich don't exploit the poor. They just out-compete them.
David Brooks
Exploit
Just
Poor
Rich
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If we are going to try to get across to the poorest people in the world that we care about their plight and we want them to join one world with the rest of us, we have got to make promises and keep promises.
David Cameron
Across
Care
Join
Rest
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Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.
Jane Austen
Argument
Being
Dreadful
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As kids we didn’t complain about being poor; we talked about how rich we were going to be and made moves to get the lifestyle we aspired to by any means we could. And as soon as we had a little money, we were eager to show it.
Jay Z
As kids
Complain
Being poor
How rich
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One of the reasons inequality gets so deep in this country is that everyone wants to be rich. That’s the American ideal. Poor people don’t like talking about poverty because even though they might live in the projects surrounded by other poor people and have, like, ten dollars in the bank, they don’t like to think of themselves as poor.
Jay Z
Reasons
Inequality
Country
Everyone
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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!
Marquis de Sade
My manner
Thinking
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The working-class folks and the poor, and those normal people living their lives out in the world without the glitter and the fanfare. There is a lot to learn from them.
Mark Ruffalo
Working class
Poor
Normal people
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Botswana is a poor country and at present is unable to stand on its own feet and develop its recourses without assistance from its friends
Seretse Khama
Poor country
Botswana
Feet
Develop
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Corruption imposes heavy costs on the economy and distorts development policies. It hurts the poor disproportionately by diverting funds intended for development. It undermines government’s ability to provide essential services. It fuels inequality and injustice and discourages foreign investment
Quett Ketumile Masire
Corruption
Economy
Heavy cost
Foreign investment
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Poor infrastructure not only inhibits economic growth but quite frankly, it stands in the way and affects the quality of the lives of the people in the continent.
Adebayo Ogunlesi
Poor infrastructure
Economic growth
Affects
Lives
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I come from one of the poorest countries in the world, and Cameroon is also one of the most beautiful countries in the world.
Samuel Eto'o
Come from
Poorest countries
World
Most beautiful
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Khushwant Singh
Morality
Matter
Money
Poor people
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Rich people want the lockdown. Poor people don't. Bear in mind, it's the poor people who vote, and that's one way they can punish their leaders.
Mark Essien
Rich people
Poor
Mind
Vote
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As our nation, Nigeria continues to grapple with the challenges of this pandemic, I wish to once again reiterate my commitment to support the poor and vulnerable people in our constituency
Uche Ekwunife
Nation
Continues
Challenges
Pandemic
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As believers, we must take the advantage of this period to show kindness to one another, particularly to the poor and the most vulnerable in our society.
Uche Ekwunife
As believers
Show kindness
One another
Poor
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Appearances can be so deceiving, such a poor measure of a person. Admonished the Savior, ‘Judge not according to the appearance.
Thomas S. Monson
Appearances
Deceiving
Poor measure
Admonished
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Billy Sunday
The fellow
No money
Poor
Has nothing
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South Africa does not have a poverty problem. Poverty is a result of denialism of the way corruption taxes poor people, the inefficiencies that undermine poor people’s opportunities and our refusal to admit that we are part of the problem.
Mamphela Ramphele
Poverty problem
Result
Corruption
Taxes
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To set up an organization that will provide free legal services to poor Nigerians who cannot afford the services of private legal practitioners.
Abubakar Malami
Set up
Organization
Provide
Free
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Do solemnly swear to love, honor and obey my soul, my path to realization and relationship with a higher, deeper creative power, for better or worse, for richer or poorer, in sickness and in health, from now and forever more.
Alex Grey
Solemnly swear
Love
Honor
Obey
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The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
Anatole France
The law
Majestic equality
Forbids
The rich
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What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest.
Andy Warhol
What's great
This country
Started
Tradition
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Most of us aren't that interested in getting rich- we just don't want to get poor.
Andy Rooney
Most
Interested
Rich
Don't
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We pray for those suffering in the world today. May the poor and vulnerable have sufficient access to their basic needs. May those who have lost homes and loved ones be treated with mercy and compassion. Replace their panic with peace and despair with hope!
Yusuf Abubakar Yusuf
We pray
Those suffering
World today
The poor
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Adaptation is not the preserve of poor countries. Partnership makes sense, if only, from the perspective of enlightened self interest.
Fatima Denton
Adaptation
Preserve
Poor countries
Partnership
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You’ve got so many groups that have no voice in this world,the indigenous, the poor. So how can I use the resources that I have and bring them up, highlight them. And it’s not that difficult. It’s just choosing and concentrating and focusing.
Anita Roddick
Many groups
No voice
This world
The indigenous
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Industrialized countries must take the responsibility of helping poorer countries in the climate change action plan.
Angela Merkel
Industrialized countries
The responsibility
Helping poorer
Countries
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Poor people, people of color,especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.
Angela Davis
Poor people
Color
Be found
In prison
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As public school decay and private fill the gap, the problem of equity and access deepens. Poor children are consigned to poorly equipped public schools while the affluent are exposed to quality education.
Osita Chidoka
Public school
Private
Equity
Access deepens
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I think it is time we abolish Educationally Disadvantaged States and focus on Educationally Disadvantaged Schools to promote equity and inclusion for student with poor access to quality education.
Osita Chidoka
I think
Time
We abolish
Educationally disadvantaged
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So, there is no shortage of land to bury us, but there is no land to build decent homes for the poor black people so that they too can have physical distancing
Jimmy Manyi
No shortage
Land
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Corona virus will soon disappear. But the pandemic of poor education will bedevil our country for a very long time.
Bolaji Abdullahi
Soon disappear
The pandemic
Poor education
Bedevil
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You can’t steal from the poor who can’t feed their families or pay for their medical treatment, and then claim to be righteous before God.
Hopewell Chin'ono
Can't steal
The poor
Feed
Their families
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One side of the street is a Church; across the road is a liquor store. Both of them keeping us poor.
Chuck D
One side
The street
A church
Liquor store
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Every week a tsunami rips through poor towns and villages all over the world ... That tsunami is hunger.
Colin Farrell
Rips
Poor
World
Hunger
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My critics accuse me of not doing enough over the past 40 years to reduce poverty,but not a single member of my family is poor. Most are millionaires!
Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo
My critics
Accuse me
Doing enough
Reduce poverty
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It is plain that we don't care about our poor people except to exploit them as cheap labor and victimize them through excessive rents and consumer prices.
Coretta Scott King
Don't care
Poor people
Exploit them
Cheap labor
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Africa is the richest continent on earth with regard to raw materials.The paradox is that it is also the poorest in terms of the living conditions of its people.
Raila Odinga
Richest continent
On earth
Raw materials
The paradox
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.The elites and the wealthy have outsourced their political and economic liberation to the poor and needy.
Shingi Munyeza
The elites
Wealthy
Have outsourced
Political
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Think what the world could look like if we took care of the poor even half as well as we do our Bibles!
Dorothy Day
Think what
The world
Look like
Took care
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If you feed the poor, you're a saint. If you ask why they're poor, you're a Communist.
Dorothy Day
You feed
The poor
A saint
You ask
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