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When I was poor, I was rich because I was happy; when I was wealthy, I was poor because I was sad.Matshona Dhliwayo
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The poor can dream. The weak can hope. The helpless can strive. The powerless can rise.Matshona Dhliwayo
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It’s not how much material things you have hoarded that will make you happy but how satisfied you are with what you have so far. A rich person can be the poorest wreck if he is not satisfied with what he already has and a materially poor can be happy if he is satisfied with the little he has.Bangambiki Habyarimana
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Whoever said that money didn't buy happiness was a damn fool. A damn fool who'd never been poor.Tom Cooper
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Neatness and cleanliness is not a function of how rich or poor you are but that of mentality and principle.Ikechukwu Izuakor
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If the surprise outcome of the recent UK referendum - on whether to leave or remain in the European Union - teaches us anything, it is that supposedly worthy displays of democracy in action can actually do more harm than good. Witness a nation now more divided; an intergenerational schism in the making; both a governing and opposition party torn to shreds from the inside; infinitely more complex issues raised than satisfactory solutions provided. It begs the question 'Was it really all worth it' ? .Alex Morritt
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Don't only learn from the rich and successful men, also learn from the poor and those that failed woefully, for in their failures lies the secret of success as well.Ikechukwu Izuakor
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Don't cheat the foundation of a house because you want to save for the roofing for at the end, you will have only roofed rubbles.Ikechukwu Izuakor
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Never forget a man who weathered and rescued you from the storm just because you can see the shores.Ikechukwu Izuakor
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Don't sell the warmer for an air conditioner just because its summer, for in winter, you will have to do the reverse.Ikechukwu Izuakor
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Love makes you the richest person in the world, no matter how poor you are.Matshona Dhliwayo
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If all you have is money, you are among the poorest people in the world.Matshona Dhliwayo
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Death is buried there into death Hunger strikes on its own last breath No spine to shiver, no heart talks At life’s craving poverty mocks From the poem 'ExhumationMunia Khan
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In poverty, friends are few; in prosperity, acquaintances are numerous; in affluence, associates are countless.Matshona Dhliwayo
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Pain teaches you more than pleasure. Failure teaches you more than success. Poverty teaches you more than prosperity. Adversity teaches you more than comfort.Matshona Dhliwayo
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Charity is fortune, avarice is poverty, peace is treasure, and happiness is wealth.Matshona Dhliwayo
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You may be poor, but important; uneducated, but wise; lowly, but noble; simple, but insightful; and ordinary, but great.Matshona Dhliwayo
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If you have a house but no home, you are homeless; knowledge but no wisdom, you are imprudent; acquaintances but no friends, you are lonely; money but no happiness, you are poor; and life but no joy, you are lifeless.Matshona Dhliwayo
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There are three things that a beggar and a rich person share every day: the sun, the moon, and the stars.Matshona Dhliwayo
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If you have much, be generous; if you have little, be grateful; even if you have nothing, be hopeful.Matshona Dhliwayo
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Poverty's simplicity has an inexpensive beauty rooted in it, which the rich can never afford to buyMunia Khan
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While there are millions of hungry people all around the world, while there are thousands of homeless people in every country, while some continents are in a horrible poverty, while there are not enough schools, not enough hospitals in the entire world, building churches, mosques, synagogues or temples or spending money on guns, on war industry are the greatest treasons to humanity!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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After staring at the poor in the eyes, my thoughts on how best to help people have dramatically changed.Moutasem Algharati
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You don't need magic to be invisible in a town like this. Being poor works just the same.C.M. Hayden
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When you have nothing, be hopeful; when you have little, be grateful; when you have much, be sensible; when you have everything, be humble.Matshona Dhliwayo
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The highest wisdom is sometimes found in the lowest people.Matshona Dhliwayo
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Poverty, oppression, grief and depression will increase, if a country does not live according to the rules of God.Sunday Adelaja
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Our highest deeds come from helping the lowest people.Matshona Dhliwayo
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The face of poverty is a mixture of sincerity and sadness!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Those who would give us equal opportunity for everybody are threatened by it. They are afraid to lose their privileged positions. They pay lip service to it, they act by half measures and do everything to violate the laws they have themselves instituted to make sure the high class is always high. It never changes, it always goes in a circle, when the oppressed fight and get to the top, and they become the new elite and forget the promises. .Bangambiki Habyarimana
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The poor eats with his eyes, the rich with his mouth.Bangambiki Habyarimana
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The master doesn’t need to chain his slaves; their needs will chain them to him. You can end slavery by the stroke of a pen, but the pressing call of necessity will reestablish it.Bangambiki Habyarimana
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Free yourself from mental slavery. Break those invisible chains your masters put on your spiritual neck to control youBangambiki Habyarimana
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Mostly the greedy rich is responsible for the poor’s poverty!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Natural disasters happen from time to time but poverty happens all the time and therefore poverty is the greatest tragedy, it is the greatest disaster of mankind!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Negro poverty is not white poverty. Many of its causes and many of its cures are the same. But there are differences - deep, corrosive, obstinate differences - radiating painful roots into the community and into the family, and the nature of the individual. These differences are not racial differences. They are solely and simply the consequence of ancient brutality, past injustice, and present prejudice.Lyndon B. Johnson
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If you are poor and go without food and clothes, don't hope for wealth in paradise, you are already forsakenBangambiki Habyarimana
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There are places where you can live only when you are healthy, in those places when you fall ill it's the end of you for most people there can’t afford medical care.Bangambiki Habyarimana
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Because of poverty and ignorance, not everyman living on earth lives in the same epoch!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Poverty is often equated with liability. How cruel this world is?Moutasem Algharati
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When the purse becomes empty, the mind becomes full of issues.Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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What you give today you get tomorrow.Matshona Dhliwayo
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A spoon does not know whether it enters a rich or poor man's mouth.Matshona Dhliwayo
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Rich peoples kind words doesn't fill up the empty stomach of poor peopleMohammed Sekouty
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Where there is poverty, there will be destruction and exploitation by the corporations and governments benefitting from destroying our rainforests and trafficking wildlife.Eileen Anglin