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The challenge that’ll soon face government around the world is how to keep their citizens safe from COVID-19 by imposing inactivity & at the same time how to keep them safe from poverty, hunger and depression as a result of the inactivity. It’s a decision between the rock and a hard place
Festus Keyamo
Challenge
Face
Government
World
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Affluence separates people. Poverty knits 'em together. You got some sugar and I don't; I borrow some of yours. Next month you might not have any flour; well, I'll give you some of mine.
Ray Charles
Affluence
Any
Borrow
Flour
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So, the easiest way to waste the future is to churn out millions of semi-illiterates, largely unemployable citizens most of whom seek criminality as the only way to escape the poverty trap.
Charles Chukwuma Soludo
Easiest way
Future
Churn
Millions
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To educate a mind is to guarantee a more prosperous future, to educate a generation is to lift a nation out of poverty. To educate oneself is the beginning of the journey.
Adewale Tinubu
Educate
Mind
Guarantee
Future
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You can break the vicious cycle of poverty if you don’t spend your entire life helping others to perpetuate the virtuous circle of privilege.
Manasseh Azure
Vicious
Cycle
Poverty
Spend
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I am still a socialist. I am a left-of-center politician. I believe that in Africa if you see the poverty around us, you can’t afford to be anything else
John Mahama
Politician
Socialist
Poverty
Africa
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Most of the poverty and misery in the world is due to bad government, lack of democracy, weak states, internal strife, and so on.
George Soros
Poverty
Misery
World
Government
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I foresee that poverty and obscurity probably await me, and I am in some measure prepared and daily preparing to meet them.
Robert Burns
Am
Daily
Foresee
I Am
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Far less wealthy industrialized countries have committed to end child poverty, while the United States is sliding backwards. We can do better. We must demand that our leaders do better.
Marian Wright Edelman
Backwards
Better
Child
Committed
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I will do everything I can to ensure that Malagasy are lifted out of poverty
Andry Rajoelina
Everything
Poverty
Lifted
Malagasy
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Andry Rajoelina
Only enemy
My only
Poverty
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Liya Kebede
End
Fail
Lives
Mothers
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Eradicate poverty. This is all that matters in my country. When I am out training I think about this a lot; when I am running it is going over in my mind. As a country we cannot move forward until we eradicate poverty.
Haile Gebrselassie
Eradicate poverty
Matters
Country
Training
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As in the rankest soil the most beautiful flowers are grown, so in the dark soil of poverty the choicest flowers of humanity have developed and bloomed.
James Allen
Beautiful
Dark
Developed
Flowers
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We have not yet reached the goal but... we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall be banished from this nation.
Herbert Hoover
Have not
Reached
Goal
God
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Diamonds are a key component in the campaign to make poverty history.
Nicky Oppenheimer
Campaign
Component
Diamonds
History
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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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I'm a real person, and I'm angry. I'm trying to use this celebrity thing to get people some help. AIDS, poverty, racism - I want to be one of the hands that helps stop all that. I'll put it on my shoulders. I'll charge it to my account.
Jamie Foxx
Account
AIDS
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Celebrity
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Think about it: Reducing crime and poverty and ensuring that we have an educated, stable work force has a direct effect on you and me and the future of our country.
Jane Fonda
About
Country
Crime
Direct
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We are largely the playthings of our fears. To one, fear of the dark; to another, of physical pain; to a third, of public ridicule; to a fourth, of poverty; to a fifth, of loneliness ... for all of us, our particular creature waits in ambush.
Horace Walpole
Playthings
Our fear
Physical pain
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Hundreds of thousands of people are being butchered by terrorists all over the country as Buhari marks his 5 years in office whilst poverty, diesease, despair, hunger, fear & Covid 19 ravages the land. What type of man says & does nothing whilst his people are being slaughtered?
Femi Fani-Kayode
People
Being butchered
Terrorist
Country
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The LOVE of MONEY is the ROOT of all EVIL, however DON'T be CRAZY & THINK that the LOVE of POVERTY is the ROOT of HOLINESS
Uebert Angel
Love of Money
Root
Evil
Poverty
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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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For refugee and displaced families who are observing the holy month far from their homes, faced with poverty, hardship, and uncertainty, the coronavirus pandemic adds another burden to their daily lives.
Nikki Samonas
Refugee
Displaced families
Hardship
Pandemic
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The reason why poverty is dragging with so many people today is because they like to drag people on Twitter for fun
Zlatan
Reason
Poverty
Twitter
Drag people
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Poverty too. Very profitable business.
Chef 187
Poverty
Business
Profitable
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We must make concerted efforts to banish poverty from Nigeria. To rid Nigeria of poverty is indeed a task that must be done.
Bola Tinubu
Concerted effort
Banish poverty
Be done
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Education is the greatest weapon against poverty, we cannot innovate without education, we need a leader that is a thinker and a doer.
Bola Tinubu
Education
Greatest weapon
Against poverty
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Eradicating poverty can only be achieved when we develop and improve on our nations’ greatest resource – the people.
Julius Maada Bio
Eradicating poverty
Achieved
Improved
Greatest resource
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The masses of our people are chained down in dehumanizing and grinding poverty,while we continue to maintain few island of false prosperity turbulent ocean of penury and squalor.
Theophilus Danjuma
Masses
Chained down
Dehumanizing
Grinding poverty
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Kevin Eze
Indoor person
You're broke
Poverty
Make you
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If there is neither excessive wealth nor immoderate poverty in a nation, then justice may be said to prevail.
Thales
Excessive wealth
Immoderate poverty
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Most people only see Africa in terms of poverty and war, famine and disease.
Samuel Eto'o
Most people
Poverty
War
Famine
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I am the happiest man alive. I have that in me that can convert poverty to riches, adversity to prosperity, and I am more invulnerable than Archilles; Fortune hath not one place to hit me.
Thomas Browne
Happiest man
Alive
Convert poverty
Riches
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I want to fight poverty and ignorance.
Russell Simmons
Want
Fight poverty
Ignorance
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Until I see someone eating out of the gutters before I believe there is poverty in Nigeria
Umaru Dikko
Gutters
Someone
Poverty
Eating
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The monetary crisis has highlighted the vulnerability of the economies of the developed countries and the extent to which their prosperity has been built on our poverty.
Murtala Mohammed
The monetary
Crisis
Economics
Prosperity
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Umaru Musa Yar'Adua
Corruption
Central
Poverty
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We are determined to intensify the war against corruption, more so because corruption is itself central to the spread of poverty. Its corrosive effect is all too visible in all aspects of our national life. This is an area where we have made significant progress in recent years, and we will maintain the momentum
Umaru Musa Yar'Adua
War against
Corruption
Poverty
Corrosive
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A lot of kids spent more time out of school than in, but I always loved school and thought it was my way out of Cleveland, and out of poverty.
Tracy Chapman
Kids spent
More time
School
Always loved
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A Nation that is rated headquarters of the people living in extreme poverty should search for, and insist on, new leadership paradigms. Ability to assemble the best brains for getting the country back on track is one of those leadership paradigms.
Aminu Waziri Tambuwal
A nation
Rated headquarters
People
Living
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God didn't create poverty, neither did he create prosperity. He only created power to make wealth, that's our minds. Our minds created our mentality
Adekunle Adejuyigbe
God
Create poverty
Prosperity
Power
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Single parent situations drive poverty and often lead to unsupervised kids. Many boys growing up without fathers often feel angry and abandoned. Thus, they seek comfort in all the wrong places.
Bill O'Reilly
Single parent
Drive poverty
Lead
Unsupervised kids
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Poverty and hardship are created by false thinking.
Bodhidharma
Poverty
Hardship
Created
False thinking
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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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I would rather be rich affluent and greedy and go to hell when I die, than live in poverty on this earth.
Al Capone
Be rich
Affluent
Greedy
Hell
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Poverty is not only a disease but also a climax
Sam Loco Efe
Poverty
Disease
Climax
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We continue to ensure that nobody is denied justice on account of poverty
Sharon Ikeazor
We continue
Ensure
Nobody
Denied justice
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The happy and powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune
Alexis de Tocqueville
The happy
Powerful
Into exile
Surer guarantees
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The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished, derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes during the nineteenth century.
Alfred Marshall
Hope
Poverty
Ignorance
Progress
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