Famous quotes containing the words working, poverty and/or rates:
“Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.”
—William James (18421910)
“Better to go from poverty to riches than from riches to poverty.”
—Chinese proverb.
“[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 (18381918)