Quote by John Gardner
For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hun

For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred. – John Gardner

Other quotes by John Gardner

Talking, talking. Spinning a web of words, pale walls of dreams, between myself and all I see. – John Gardner

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Dreams
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When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale. – John Gardner

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Election Day
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It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government. – John Gardner

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Poverty
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Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime. – Aristotle

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Poverty

Society comprises two classes: those who have more food than appetite, and those who have more appetite than food. – Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Chamfort)

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Poverty

Poverty is a wonderful thing. It sticks to a man after all his friends have forsaken him. – Proverb

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Poverty

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. – Mahatma Gandhi

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Poverty

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In each moment the fire rages, it will burn away a hundred veils. And carry you a thousand steps toward your goal. – Rumi

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I have piles of poetry books in the bathroom, on the stairs, everywhere. The only way to write poetry is to read it. – Carol Ann Duffy

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All of us learn to write by the second grade, then most of us go on to other things. – Bobby Knight, on reporters

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