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"As Jews, their families left Russia to escape the poverty and the antisemitism."
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"For a man who is in poverty, doomsday is already there!"
"Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation."
"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."
"If you are financially poor, it is because you have not converted your time into any product."
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"They wanted me to play more sports because they were acutely sensitive to their children being one hundred percent American, and they believed that all Americans played sports and loved sports."
"A parent being called to the school because their child had misbehaved was as serious as a parent being called to the police station because their child had robbed a bank."
"I was also interested in chemistry, but my parents were not willing to buy me a chemistry set."
"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."
"Going to school and working for good marks, indeed working for very good marks, was a serious business."
"It was good fortune to be a child during the Depression years and a youth during the war years."
"There were two free public libraries within walking distance of my home; I remember taking six books home from every visit, the limit set by the library."
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