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Poverty is a result of poor choices not of poor luck


Celso Cukierkorn

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BILL CLINTON Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
JAMES ARTHUR BALDWIN You say you care about the poor? Tell me their names.
CRAIG GREENFIELD He is poor who doesn’t have enough, he is poorer who cannot get enough.
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WESLEY MORRIS The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
H. L. MENCKEN The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN The rich man's wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the poor is their poverty.
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DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Poverty simply means poor mental attitude towards wealth.
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WILLIAM CORBETT Give a poor mind $1m,he will still end in poverty because,the poor mind has never repented to become...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Poverty must have many satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people.
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JOHN BERGER The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result...
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JOHN BERGER The fact that the poor are alive is clear proof of their ability.
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KAILASH SATYARTHI I came from a very poor family and my main dream in life was to break out of this poverty.
VIKTOR YANUKOVYCH Anyone who had ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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JAMES E. FAUST What is the matter with the poor is poverty; what is the matter with the rich is uselessness.
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I been shaking two nickels together for a month, trying to get them to mate.
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