"The opposite of poverty isn't wealth. The opposite of poverty is justice."

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Bryan Stevenson

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“Math is easy; design is hard.”
“If you look at a farmer and his daily expenditure on existing energy services, it is much higher on an incremental delta basis. And then there is an emotional cost of not providing their kids with the right to educate. If you calculate these costs in economic terms and create a financing mechanism for them to buy it, the emotional delta cost is much higher compared to their household.”

Source : Source: themanipaljournal.com
“I stand fearlessly for small dogs, the American Flag, motherhood and the Bible. That's why people love me.”

Source : "'People Are Funny' host Art Linkletter dies" by Duane Byrge, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 26, 2010.
“It's easier and more cost effective to maintain good health, than to regain it once it's lost.”
“If you live in the South, you are often a very short distance from a garden, or even a farm owned by your family or by your neighbor's family. When I was a child, even though I grew up in an era of highly processed food, the grocery store sold local field peas, lima beans, tomatoes, and sweet potatoes. While there is a deep sense of place in the South - and the foods of this place - I don't want to present a pastoral vision of the contemporary South. The majority of Southerners cannot access fresh, local, affordable food.”
“Forget the Beatles and all the rest. This is the real Liverpool sound. It's real singing, and it's what the Kop is all about.”
“The novelist helps us to see things we might not notice otherwise.”
“The paradigm of physics - with its interplay of data, theory and prediction - is the most powerful in science.”

Source : "The City in Numbers: an Equation That Explains Urban Life". wired.co.uk, March 29, 2011.

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