The document discusses the impact of poverty through several quotes. Virginia Woolf and Mahatma Gandhi discuss how poverty affects one's ability to think, love, sleep, and see God. Marcus Aurelius and Pearl S. Buck note the relationship between poverty and crime. O. Henry describes how poverty can overshadow other aspects of life. Eli Khamarov likens poverty to punishment without cause. Sébastien-Roch Nicholas de Chamfort observes that society comprises those with enough and not enough food. The document also includes statistics on global hunger and living on less than $1.25 per day from the World Food Program and UN. Marshall McLuhan is quoted as saying affluence creates poverty

1. POVERTY

2. “One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well”. ~Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own, 1929

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

4. “Poverty is the mother of crime”. ~Marcus Aurelius“Hunger makes a thief of any man”. ~Pearl S. Buck

5. “Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving’ ”. ~O. Henry, Heart of the West, 1907

6. “Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit”. ~Eli Khamarov, Lives of the Cognoscenti

7. “Society comprises two classes: those who have more food than appetite, and those who have more appetite than food”. ~Sébastien-Roch Nicholas de Chamfort, Maximes

8. Percentage of population suffering from hunger, World Food Program, 2006

9. Percentage of population living on less than $1.25 per day. UN estimates 2000-2006

10. “Affluence creates poverty”~Marshall McLuhanTHANKS…