Famous quotes containing the words working, poverty and/or rates:
“I am a working woman. I take care of a home. I hold down a job. I am nuts.”
—Barbara Dale (b. 1940)
“The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated
classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.”
—William James (1842–1910)
“[The] elderly and timid single gentleman in Paris ... never drove down the Champs Elysees without expecting an accident, and commonly witnessing one; or found himself in the neighborhood of an official without calculating the chances of a bomb. So long as the rates of progress held good, these bombs would double in force and number every ten years.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)