Hawkers Quotes

• Christians are to be taught that the pope would and should wish to give of his own money, even though he had to sell the basilica of St. Peter, to many of those from whom certain hawkers of indulgences cajole money.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Money, Giving

  Martin Luther (2012). “Martin Luther's Basic Theological Writings”, p.45, Fortress Press

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• Much of the criticism of economic globalization has centered on factory labor abuses. But the majority of the world's poor are not employed in factories; they are self-employed - as peasant farmers, rural peddlers, urban hawkers, and small producers, usually involved in agriculture and small trade in the world's vast "informal" economy .

  David Bornstein

  Self, Agriculture, Abuse

  David Bornstein (2007). “How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas, Updated Edition”, p.156, Oxford University Press

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• Nobody in Singapore drinks Singapore Slings. It's one of the first things you find out there. What you do in Singapore is eat. It's a really food-crazy culture, where all of this great food is available in a kind of hawker-stand environment.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Travel, Crazy, Culture

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• Those who do not industrialize become hewers of wood and hawkers of water

  Alexander Hamilton

  Water, Woods

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• The biggest empty space, the biggest gap in what should be a premier and always vibrant food scene in America is that we don't have hawker centers like they do in Singapore, basically food courts where mom and pop specialists can set up shop in fairly hygienic little stalls all up to health code making one dish they've been doing forever and ever.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Mom, America, Space

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• How much do you want? Do you want three meals in a hawker centre, food court or restaurant?

  Vivian Balakrishnan

  Meals, Three, Want

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