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«Women do two thirds of the world's work. Yet they earn only one tenth of the world's income and own less than one percent of the world's property. They are among the poorest of the world's poor.»
Author: Barber B. Conable, Jr.
| About:
Poverty,
Women,
Work
| Keywords:
earn, income, one-tenth, one percent, tenth, thirds, Third World, two-thirds
«Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides»
«When you subsidise poverty and failure, you get more of both»
«When poverty comes in at doors, love leaps out at windows»
«What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating»
Author: Jean Anouilh
(Dramatist, Playwright, Screenwriter)
| About:
Excess,
Poverty
| Keywords:
excessively, What fun
«Who, being loved, is poor?»
«Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly.»
«When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn't know it had a name.»
«We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.»
Author: Mother Teresa of Calcutta
(Founder, Missionary)
| About:
Poverty
| Keywords:
homeless, homes, hungry, naked, poverty, remedy, uncared-for, unloved, unwanted
«Wealth and poverty: the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
| About:
Poverty
| Keywords:
discontent, indolence, luxury, meanness, parent, viciousness
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