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Poverty makes you wise but it's a curse.

You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.

The worst part of great poverty is that you become blind to it.

You think in a different way when you don't have any money. The joy of poverty is that you use your imagination to come up with stuff.

I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.

Money can't buy poverty.

Poverty is an artificial, external imposition on a human being; it is not innate in a human being. And since it is external, it can be removed. It is just a question of doing it.

There's so much absurdity. Poverty is so absurd.

Poverty is about people lacking the tools they need to get on in life. And solving it is about tackling educational failure, antisocial behaviour, debt problems and addiction, and of course it's about work.