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  • Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry, all things easy. He that rises late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night, while laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.

    Speaker: Benjamin Franklin
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    Posted: 02 Jul 2009 at 11:18 AM
    Posted By: dirid51
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    Tags: industry, laziness, poverty, sloth

  • It has been estimated that in ceremonial of this kind, salutes to royalty and other distinguished personages, the opening and closing of harbours, guns fired at daybreak and sunset from ships and fortresses throughout the civilized world, some 150,000 cannons are uselessly discharged every twenty-four hours. At six francs a time this amounts to 900,000 francs a day, or 300 millions a year. A detail in passing. Meanwhile the poor continue to die of hunger.

    Speaker: Victor Hugo
    Source: Les Miserables
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    Posted: 18 Mar 2009 at 8:17 PM
    Posted By: Puck
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    Tags: poverty, wealth

  • “There is no act of faith more beautiful than the generosity of the very poor.”

    Speaker: Gregory David Roberts
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    Posted: 19 Aug 2008 at 8:57 PM
    Posted By: Puck
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    Tags: faith, generosity, materialism, poverty, shantaram