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"As Jews, their families left Russia to escape the poverty and the antisemitism."
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"Juice is a poor man's dessert."
"Using money in one's attempt to put an end to poverty is like using a border in one's attempt to put an end to xenophobia."
"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."
"Whether it is big or small, the size of a poor man's yard incessantly reminds him that he is poor."
"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!"
"Clothes are a homeless man's home."
"Poverty does not always prevent a rich person from dating someone who is poor, unless the man is the one who is poor."
"I avoid going through places where there's too much poverty."
"Poverty has deceived many of us into believing that some people who are in that state love the food, clothes, places, and people that they do not even like. The same can be said about wealth."
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"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."
"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."
"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."
"It was good fortune to be a child during the Depression years and a youth during the war years."
"About 1900 my parents came to the United States as children from what was then the Polish area of Russia."
"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."
"I was also interested in chemistry, but my parents were not willing to buy me a chemistry set."
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