"Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty."

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Francis of Assisi

#Sublime Quotes #Treasure Quotes #Poverty Quotes

“All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.”
“You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup.”
“A runner must run with dreams in his heart.”
“Today what we are doing is modernizing the financial services industry, tearing down those antiquated laws and granting banks significant new authority.”
“Are you armed?" Oliver asked her. She glanced down at her backpack and instantly, instinctively held back. "No." "Lie to me again and I'll put you out on the street and do this myself." Claire swallowed. "Uh, yeah." "With what?" "Silver-coated stakes, wooden stakes, a crossbow, about ten bolts . . . oh, and a squirt gun with some silver-nitrate solution." He smiled grimly at the dark windshield. "What, no grenade launchers?" "Would they work?" "I choose not to comment.”
“will anything but fanaticism make for change? Wisdom and compromise come later.”
“Without community, there is no liberation.”

Source : Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.112, Crossing Press
“Water and sanitation has not had the same kind of champion that global health, and even education, have had.”

Source : "Climate change will 'lead to battles for food', says head of World Bank" by Larry Elliott, www.theguardian.com. April 3, 2014.

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