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Poverty-or-Pride

January 19, 2014 By rjmorris Leave a Comment

Poverty is very destructive.  Pride can be just as destructive if not more so.  The root cause of many wars and violence is pride.  The American Civil War was fought for many reasons but the root cause was pride.  The most susceptible to the downfall of pride are those come out of poverty.  Stay out of either ditch by remaining humble.  Pride and poverty are ugly.  Humility is beautiful.pride  More money is not the solution.poverty

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Rik Morris is a licensed professional consulting engineer in Texas. His engineering career has spanned 40 years. Through those years he has owned a … (read more)

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