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"I have an old hat which is not worth three francs, I have a coat which lacks buttons in front, my shirt is all ragged, my elbows are torn, my boots let in the water; for the last six weeks I have not thought about it, and I have not told you about it. You only see me at night, and you give me your love; if you were to see me in the daytime, you would give me a sou!"
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"For a man who is in poverty, doomsday is already there!"
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"In the treatment of poverty nationally, one fact stands out: there are twice as many white poor as Negro poor in the United States. Therefore I will not dwell on the experiences of poverty that derive from racial discrimination, but will discuss the poverty that affects white and Negro alike."
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"As Jews, their families left Russia to escape the poverty and the antisemitism."
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"Poverty is not socialism. To be rich is glorious."
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"And I think that after nearly 85 years upon this planet that I have a right after working so hard at showing the desolation and the poverty, to show something beautiful for somebody as well."
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"If you have a poverty of heart then you are the poorest among the poor."
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"Dr. Rice went well beyond offering a helping hand - she went so far as to shed tears and share hugs with those who, in a matter of just a few hours, had lost everything to the rising floodwaters."
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"The correlation between poverty and obesity can be traced to agricultural policies and subsidies."
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"Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount."
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"Poverty made a sound like a wet cough in the shadows of the room."
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"Toleration is the best religion."
Religion
"Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty."
Curiosity
"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told."
Being
"Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization."
Civilization
"I repeat, whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all."
Humanity
"On coming out of the chapel, a well can be seen on the left. There are two in this yard. You ask, Why is there no bucket and no pulley to this one? Because no water is drawn from it now. Why is no more water drawn from it? Because it is full of skeletons."
Mystery
"I propose a toast to mirth; be merry! Let us complete our course of law by folly and eating! Indigestion and the digest. let Justinian be the male, and Feasting, the female! Joy the depths! Live, O creation! The world is a great diamond. I am happy. The birds are astonishing. What a festival everywhere! The nightingale is a gratuitous Elleviou.Summer, I salute thee!"
Celebration
"There is neither a foreign war nor a civil war, there is only just and unjust war."
War
"Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world; the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes of flesh see only night."
Awareness
"Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter."
Poetry
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