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Poverty Quotes

    “Poverty is not the absence of goods, but rather the overabundance of desire.”

    Plato, via Sunbeams (Page 53)

      “Seventy-five percent of our energy around the earth is being poured into war efforts. Are we servants of death and destruction? This 75 percent of energy could be poured into life, into the service of life-and there will be laughter, and there will be greater health, and there will be more wealth, more food. There will be no poverty. There is no need for poverty to exist at all.”

      Osho, The Book of Understanding (page 52)