“It should not be a surprise then that poverty continues to breed conflict.”
Nobel lecture (2005)
Context: It should not be a surprise then that poverty continues to breed conflict. Of the 13 million deaths due to armed conflict in the last ten years, 9 million occurred in sub-Saharan Africa, where the poorest of the poor live.
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Source: Poverty (1912), p. 26-27
Context: From the facts of distress, as given, and from opinions formed, both as a charity agent and as a Settlement worker, I should not be at all surprised if the number of those in poverty in New York, as well as in other large cities and industrial centers, rarely fell below 25 per cent of all the people.
“Poverty must not be used as an excuse to continue child labor and exploitation of children”
As quoted in "Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi Are Awarded Nobel Peace Prize" by Alan Cowell and Declan Walsh, in The New York Times (10 October 2014) http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/11/world/europe/kailash-satyarthi-and-malala-yousafzai-are-awarded-nobel-peace-prize.html?_r=0
Context: Poverty must not be used as an excuse to continue child labor and exploitation of children … It’s a triangular relationship between child labor, poverty and illiteracy, and I have been trying to fight all of these things together.
“Texture and pattern should function as a surprise.”
Patricia Volk, " The Sweet Smell of Excess http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/08/style/tmagazine/08texcess.html", The New York Times (October 8, 2006; retrieved October 4, 2007).
“The universe does not behave according to our pre-conceived ideas. It continues to surprise us.”
Disarm and develop – UN expert urges win-win proposition for States and peoples.
2014
“Life is chaotic, dangerous, and surprising. Buildings should reflect that.”
Source: Jason K. Miller, Susan Lauzau (2002) Frank Gehry. p. 6.
"Galtieri muses on what-if's of Falkland war" http://www.nytimes.com/1982/09/16/world/galtieri-muses-on-what-if-s-of-falkland-war.html, The New York Times (September 16, 1982)