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If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else.
by Simone Weil (Philosopher, French , born in 1909) keywords: ceases, day, else, false, got, illness, know, misfortune, poverty, satisfied, shall, something, soon, suffering, think, too, used , wants I've never been anywhere in my life like it and I only really noticed it when I returned to Los Angeles and then Berlin. Everybody is much better off in these places, there is not poverty like in Cuba, but everybody complains about things.
by Wim Wenders (Director, German , born in 1945) keywords: angeles, anywhere, been, berlin, better, complains, cuba, everybody, life, los, much, never, noticed, off, only, places, poverty, really, returned, then, these , things My mother's illness fitted into this protest against the treatment of the sick who could not pay, the inefficiency of commercialism, the waste, the extravagance, and the poverty.
by Ellen Wilkinson (Politician, English , born in 1891) keywords: against, commercialism, could, extravagance, fitted, illness, inefficiency, into, mother, pay, poverty, protest, sick, treatment , waste Sade's stuff is real deceptive. She's got stuff about prostitutes, poverty and people on the streets.
by Lucinda Williams (Musician, American , born in 1953) keywords: deceptive, got, poverty, prostitutes, real, sade, she, streets , stuff Economists are coming to acknowledge that measures of national wealth and poverty in terms strictly of average income tell you little that is significant of the health or viability of a society.
by Rowan D. Williamskeywords: acknowledge, average, coming, economists, health, income, little, measures, national, poverty, significant, society, strictly, tell, terms, viability , wealth To help the poor to a capacity for action and liberty is something essential for one's own health as well as theirs: there is a needful gift they have to offer which cannot be offered so long as they are confined by poverty.
by Rowan D. Williamskeywords: action, cannot, capacity, confined, essential, gift, health, help, liberty, long, needful, offer, offered, own, poor, poverty, something, theirs, well , which I was deeply concerned then, and have become more concerned since, that unless we can deal with the questions of development and the questions of poverty, there's no way that we're going to have a peaceful world for our children.
by James Wolfensohn (Businessman, Australian , born in 1933) keywords: become, children, concerned, deal, deeply, development, going, more, our, peaceful, poverty, questions, since, then, unless, way , world So the first thing you need to do about conflict is to prevent it, and the best way of preventing it is by dealing with the question of poverty.
by James Wolfensohn (Businessman, Australian , born in 1933) keywords: best, conflict, dealing, first, need, poverty, prevent, preventing, question, thing , way The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.
by Stevie Wonder (Musician, American , born in 1950) keywords: advantages, been, big, birth, born, had, poverty, two, were , wise By the breaking in of enraged merciless armies, flourishing countries have been laid waste, great numbers of people have perished in a short time, and many more have been pressed with poverty and grief.
by John Woolman (Clergyman, American , born in 1720) keywords: armies, been, breaking, countries, enraged, flourishing, great, grief, laid, many, merciless, more, numbers, perished, poverty, pressed, short, time , waste I grew up in a very modest house. We were poor-we lived on the poverty level. We all got jobs as young kids.
by Chely Wright (Musician, American , born in 1970) keywords: got, grew, house, jobs, kids, level, lived, modest, poverty, up, very, were , young We started the AIDS virus. We are only able to maintain our level of living by making sure that Third World people live in grinding poverty.
by Jeremiah Wright (Clergyman, American , born in 1941) keywords: able, aids, grinding, level, live, living, maintain, making, only, our, poverty, started, sure, third, virus , world I have committed my life to helping the poor, and I believe that if more companies followed Wal-Mart's lead in providing opportunity and savings to those who need it most, more Americans battling poverty would realize the American dream.
by Andrew Young (Clergyman, American , born in 1932) keywords: american, americans, battling, believe, committed, companies, dream, followed, helping, lead, life, more, most, need, opportunity, poor, poverty, providing, realize, savings, those, wal-mart , would People can be so apathetic. They continue to ignore the real people trapped in poverty and homelessness. It's almost maddening.
by Daphne Zuniga (Actor, American , born in 1962) keywords: almost, apathetic, continue, homelessness, ignore, maddening, poverty, real , trapped
