"Extreme poverty is the best breeding ground on earth for disease, political instability, and terrorism."

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Jeffrey Sachs

#Political Quotes #Poverty Quotes #Earth Quotes

“We want a state wise in its contemplation - just in its actions - and moderate in the reach of government into our lives.”
“My consciousness is without limits more than when I was 40 or 50.”
“When you're in the public eye, it's wrong to cheat on someone, unless you're very careful. If you're normal and no one's going to know, then do it.”
“I grew up in Rome, in actually what I would say was a liberal, open-minded family. My father was an architect and my mother was a teacher of art history, so it was sort of intellectual, and maybe a bit much for me when I was a child.”

Source : Interview with Dave Gahan, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 12, 2011.
“It is possible to increase paper-money income to any amount by debasing the currency. But real income can only be increased by working harder or more efficiently, saving more, investing more, and producing more.”
“By our pontifical assertions, our superior impatience, and our casual brushing aside of their curiosity, we do not encourage their inquiry, for we are rather apprehensive of what may be asked of us; we do not foster their discontent, for we ourselves have ceased to question.”
“If it's third-and-one, then I'm going in, no ifs or buts about.”
“The movement of the Spirit of God in the hearts of men and women often calls them to act against the spirit of their times or causes them to anticipate a spirit which is yet in the making. In a moment of dedication they are given wisdom and courage to dare a deed that challenges and to kindle a hope that inspires.”

Source : "Footprints of a Dream : The Story of the Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples" by Howard Thurman, (p. 7), 1959.

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