"Come away; poverty's catching."

-- Aphra Behn

#Poverty Quotes #Catching Quotes

“When you as a designer design something that burdens a community with maintenance and old world technology, basically failed developed world technology, then you will crush that community way beyond bad design; youll destroy the economics of that community, and often the community socially is broken.”

Source : "Quotes of the day: Cameron Sinclair". www.cnn.com. July 11, 2008.
“You don't get to decide your part in the school play, but you do get to decide whether or not you play it well.”
“Let's try and fail because through failure you learn”
“My loving children, my children who were created with God's beauty, my wise children, whatever difficulty you may have, do not ever leave His charge. Just as the prophets of God kept their faith firm and were tolerant in spite of the problems they had, no matter what difficulties you may experience, be tolerant, be forbearant and embrace all living things as your own life.”

Source : "The Tree That Fell To The West: Autobiography of a Sufi". Book by Muhammad Raheem Bawa Muhaiyaddeen, 2003.
“The smartest thing I did was to stop going online. I'm the sort of person who will just look for the negative - Michael really can't understand it, but that's just the way I am. And with my bipolar thing, that's poison. So I just stopped. Cold turkey. And it's so liberating.”
“Whenever I see an unmarried woman carrying a child, my first response is one of respect. I know she could have taken the quick fix without anyone knowing, but she chose instead to let an innocent child live.”

Source : Randy Alcorn (2009). “Pro-Life Answers to Pro-Choice Arguments”, p.120, Multnomah
“You shouldn't rely on others to help you determine what's good and what's bad. In no time at all, you'll simply be under someone else's control.”
“North Korea will never give up its arsenal. It's all that is keeping us alive. Look at Saddam Hussein - and we never forget that North Korea was named as part of the "axis of evil" a year before the United States invaded Iraq. Do you think we would be stupid enough to believe American promises after all this? We are a nuclear power. That is not negotiable. We are willing to talk about limits freezes - but we would need to be given something in return security, in the form of diplomatic recognition by Washington and guarantees of nonaggression from China, Japan and the United States.”

Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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