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"As Jews, their families left Russia to escape the poverty and the antisemitism."
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"Poverty does not always prevent a rich person from dating someone who is poor, unless the man is the one who is poor."
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"Whether it is big or small, the size of a poor man's yard incessantly reminds him that he is poor."
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"It is as difficult for most poor people to truly believe that they could someday escape poverty as it is for most wealthy people to truly believe that their wealth could someday escape them."
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"Most poor people do not really aspire to end poverty, they merely aspire to escape it."
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"Leftovers are less tasty if they were left over by someone else, unless you are poor."
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"For a man who is in poverty, doomsday is already there!"
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"I avoid going through places where there's too much poverty."
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"And except on a certain kind of winter evening-six-thirty in the Seventies, say, already dark and bitter with a wind off the river, when I would be walking very fast toward a bus and would look in the bright windows of brownstones and see cooks working in clean kitchens and and imagine women lighting candles on the floor above and beautiful children being bathed on the floor above that-except on nights like those, I never felt poor; I had the feeling that if I needed money I could always get it."
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"Poverty is the frontier we have to be able to cross."
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"Blacks are about seven times more likely to live in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty than whites."
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"Naturally, I have compensated in my adult years by owning very large numbers of books."
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"Going to school and working for good marks, indeed working for very good marks, was a serious business."
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"It was good fortune to be a child during the Depression years and a youth during the war years."
War
"As Jews, their families left Russia to escape the poverty and the antisemitism."
Poverty
"The remoteness of my parents from the schools, so unfashionable today, was often painful for me, but I learned early to deal with an outside and sometimes hard world."
Parents
"Natures' curriculum cannot be changed."
Curriculum
"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
"My parents were determined to move into the middle class."
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"My parents regarded school teachers as higher beings, as did many immigrants."
Parents
"About 1900 my parents came to the United States as children from what was then the Polish area of Russia."
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