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"As Jews, their families left Russia to escape the poverty and the antisemitism."
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"Every one of us see many nightmares every day, not in our sleeps but with our very own eyes: The poverty! The most real and the most common nightmare of all times!"
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"The streets are a poor kid's PlayStation."
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"Most poor people do not really aspire to end poverty, they merely aspire to escape it."
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"If you are financially poor, it is because you have not converted your time into any product."
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"Nothing is interesting other than deleting your name from the book of poverty and misery."
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"Poverty is being single."
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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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"No matter what they say in the conferences and symposiums about poverty and hunger in the world. At the end, they are the first one forgetting us."
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"Most people die, living their life paycheck to paycheck,trying to stretch out each dollar, as like a roll of toilet paper. Toiling each tissue, never quite wiping away all the shit from their asses, where the world always takes what little they flush, back into its deprived system, always hungry."
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"Some people ate less food less often when they each had a home than they now do as hobos."
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"About 1900 my parents came to the United States as children from what was then the Polish area of Russia."
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"I was also interested in chemistry, but my parents were not willing to buy me a chemistry set."
Parents
"Going to school and working for good marks, indeed working for very good marks, was a serious business."
Business
"It was good fortune to be a child during the Depression years and a youth during the war years."
War
"Their educations ended with high school - my father going to work as a clerk and then salesman in a company dealing in printing and stationary, and my mother working as a secretary and then bookkeeper in a firm of wool merchants."
Work
"My parents were determined to move into the middle class."
Class
"I learned quickly, as I tell my graduate students now, there are no answers in the back of the book when the equipment doesn't work or the measurements look strange."
Work
"My parents regarded school teachers as higher beings, as did many immigrants."
Parents
"Naturally, I have compensated in my adult years by owning very large numbers of books."
Books
"Whatever the course, whether the course was boring or interesting to me, whether I was talented in mathematics or not talented in languages, my parents expected A's."
Mathematics
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