Top 1200 Reducing Poverty Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Intravenous injections of extract from dog's pancreas, removed from seven to ten weeks after ligation of the ducts, invariably exercises a reducing influence upon the percentage sugar of the blood and the amount of sugar excreted in the urine ... the extent and duration of the reduction varies directly with the amount of extract injected.

Governments need to lay out a credible path to reducing their deficits in the medium term, but without excessively enfeebling an already weak recovery. That means raising retirement ages and overhauling pensions; putting in place the budget rules and institutions that will curb future profligacy; and favouring spending cuts over tax increases.

Generational poverty, most of us don't know what that means.

When workers make more money, they respond by being more productive in their jobs and are less likely to leave, reducing turnover costs. This puts money in business' pockets, and workers also then have more money to spend in the local economy.

Following the end of the Cold War, there was much discussion concerning the point of NATO. In the event, it was reinvented as a means of reducing Russia's reach on its western frontiers and seeking to isolate it. Its former East European client states were admitted to NATO, as were the Baltic states.

Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.

Elton John can be a master of the sleight of hand. The arrangements make it seem like there are substantial melodies underneath the tracks - but almost nothing demands repeated listenings. Similarly, he always sounds like he's singing up a storm, but his voice glosses over the material, reducing most things to an uninteresting sameness.

Poverty has many roots, but the tap root is ignorance.

Prodigality of Time produces Poverty of Mind as well as of Estate.

There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.

We're doing a great disservice to our young people because the only protection is abstinence, as condoms have been proven fallible. The federal government should not be telling young people to use condoms. It's also an insult to teenagers, reducing them to the level of a dog that can't control its hormones.

Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth.

Extreme poverty anywhere is a threat to human security everywhere.

Diamonds are a key component in the campaign to make poverty history.

Poverty and affliction take away the fuel that feeds pride.

As a nation, this is the moment to start seriously investing our time, energy and resources into proven methods of reducing violence, both within our nation as well as internationally. The cost of violence to our culture and our children is simply not sustainable.

The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one the poverty bothers.

You will never become rich, until you hate poverty

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

Tax reform for the 21st century means rewarding hardworking families by closing unfair loopholes, lowering tax rates across the board, and simplifying the tax code dramatically. It demands reducing the tax burden on American businesses of all sizes so they can keep more of their income to invest in our communities.

Unlike the weak, the strong neither give up nor are driven by pain into rash or stupid behavior. They don't like pain any more than anyone else, but they are not willing to settle for short-term relief if it means reducing their options later. They don't rob Peter to pay Paul, they face reality now.

Poverty is not a sin; it is a condition, a circumstance that allows God's work to be displayed.

The cause of poverty is not scarcity. It is fear and small thinking.

It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man.

Many girls do not go to school because of poverty.

Fasting will break poverty from your life.

It is not the world that is absurd, nor human thought: the absurd arises when the human need to understand meets the unreasonableness of the world, when 'my appetite for the absolute and for unity' meets 'the impossibility of reducing this world to a rational and reasonable principle.'

Today we're dumping 70 million tons of global-warming pollution into the environment, and tomorrow we will dump more, and there is no effective worldwide response. Until we start sharply reducing global-warming pollution, I will feel that I have failed.

I'm not interested in 'abstracting' or taking things out or reducing painting to design, form, line, and color. I paint this way because I can keep putting more things in it - drama, anger, pain, love, a figure, a horse, my ideas about space. Through your eyes it again becomes an emotion or idea.

Poverty. Racism. Isn't it strange, only the homeless are begging for change?

Pollution from human activities is changing the Earth's climate. We see the damage that a disrupted climate can do: on our coasts, our farms, forests, mountains, and cities. Those impacts will grow more severe unless we start reducing global warming pollution now.

We are now, measurably, reducing the availability of these life-supporting goods which we can think of (though only on the conditions of good health and good care) as self-renewing or "sustainable." We are also destroying rapidly the supplies of the fossil fuels, which are limited and not renewable, and on which we have become totally dependent.

The problem of the Middle East is poverty more than politics.

The democratic youth lives along day by day, gratifying the desire that occurs to him, at one time drinking and listening to the flute, at another downing water and reducing, now practicing gymnastic, and again idling and neglecting everything; and sometimes spending his time as though he were occupied in philosophy.

The truth is, our corporate income taxes are some of the highest in the world, and frankly, in my judgment it's unpatriotic if you're not for reducing the corporate income tax. We want to make it so American companies are on a more level playing field competing with companies around the world.

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.

We actually all care about the environment, and most people believe in climate change and believe that mankind has something to do with that - how much is scientifically debatable, but there is some effect and we all have an interest in reducing carbon emissions, just having cleaner air, cleaner oceans. It's something we can get behind.

Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy.

The cancer that demands our urgent attention is corruption and poverty.

It's difficult to write about poverty in a way that doesn't feel cliched.

Our world is afflicted by poverty. Don't spend all this money on clothes!

I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

I can't solve the poverty problem, but there are things you can do to mitigate its effects on kids.

When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn't know it had a name.

What causes terrorism is disrespect, a lack of justice, and poverty.

Elvis was rock'n'roll. He came from the poverty and the pain.

We need to remind ourselves that our ultimate goal is not to reduce greenhouse gases or global warming per se but to improve the quality of life and the environment. We all want to leave the planet in decent shape for our kids. Radically reducing greenhouse gas emissions is not necessarily the best way to achieve that.

I come from a community plagued with so much poverty and violence and homophobia.

It is so much easier to talk of poverty than to think of the poor.

Is the American tradition of self-reliance disappearing? That's a painful question for conservatives to ponder. After all, we're dedicated to reducing the role of government and promoting individual freedom and opportunity. But the facts, while sad, are clear: More Americans today depend more heavily on government than ever before.

I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times.

What Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end.

In the current setting the situation of the poor is neglected despite the grotesque wealth of the capitalist elites, and the dangers to the well-being of humanity associated with climate change are ignored despite a strong scientific consensus warning of the adverse, and possibly irreversible, consequences of further delays in reducing the level of greenhouse gas emissions, especially carbon.

Free migration within Europe means that countries that have done a better job at reducing unemployment will predictably end up with more than their fair share of refugees. Workers in these countries bear the cost in depressed wages and higher unemployment, while employers benefit from cheaper labor.

He travels safe and not unpleasantly who is guarded by poverty and guided by love.

The thing that distinguishes permanent poverty is bad character.

Poverty, the existence of the poor, was the first cause of riches.

Give me, Lord, neither poverty nor riches.

As a small-business owner who kept costs low and health care premiums flat for 10 years in my company, I know firsthand that transparency is the trick to reducing the skyrocketing health care costs that are burdening patients, employers, and our state, local, and federal governments.

Being a writer is a poverty trap. I mean, it's a terrible profession.