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"We can no longer prosper by increasing human productivity. The more we try to do, the more poverty we will create."
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"Every one of us see many nightmares every day, not in our sleeps but with our very own eyes: The poverty! The most real and the most common nightmare of all times!"
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Personal Development
"The streets are a poor kid's PlayStation."
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Personal Development
"If you are financially poor, it is because you have not converted your time into any product."
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Personal Development
"Nothing is interesting other than deleting your name from the book of poverty and misery."
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Personal Development
"Poverty is being single."
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Personal Development
"In the treatment of poverty nationally, one fact stands out: there are twice as many white poor as Negro poor in the United States. Therefore I will not dwell on the experiences of poverty that derive from racial discrimination, but will discuss the poverty that affects white and Negro alike."
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Personal Development
"No matter what they say in the conferences and symposiums about poverty and hunger in the world. At the end, they are the first one forgetting us."
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"Some people ate less food less often when they each had a home than they now do as hobos."
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"If your expenditure brings you poverty, then you may call yourself a poor but the world will call you a fool."
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"Misery and poverty of a nation does not depend on how fertile their land is but the fertility of their thoughts."
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"We are losing our living systems, social systems, cultural systems, governing systems, stability, and our constitutional health, and we're surrendering it all at the same time."
Time
"Businesses who are members of Businesses for Social Responsibility or the Social Venture Network are internalizing costs on a voluntary basis and therefore raising their costs of doing business, but their competitors are not required to."
Business
"If, as is natural, you focus on the corruption and on those threatened institutions that are trying to prevent change - even though they don't really know what they're trying to prevent - then you can get pessimistic."
Change
"What we are missing, utterly and completely, in this government is accountability."
Government
"Intelligent policies will be largely self-regulating in the sense that the system of incentives and standards makes it absolutely ludicrous to not move towards clean, internalized systems of cost and production."
Production
"We are now heading down a centuries-long path toward increasing the productivity of our natural capital - the resource systems upon which we depend to live - instead of our human capital."
Now
"And also, more and more businesses really want to do the right thing. They feel better about themselves, their workers feel better, and so do their customers. I think this is equally true in the transnational corporations, but it is harder to express in those situations."
Corporations
"I think an old style of addressing environmental problems is ebbing, but the rise of the so-called conservative, political movement in this country is not a trend towards the future but a reaction to this very broad shift that we are undergoing."
Environment
"We assume that everything's becoming more efficient, and in an immediate sense that's true; our lives are better in many ways. But that improvement has been gained through a massively inefficient use of natural resources."
Improvement
"Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them."
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