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"Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor."
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"I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours."
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"Excuse my scribbling, it is late, and I have a poor candle."
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"Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor."
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"The poor North has much to do with slavery. It staggers under its load and smarts under its lash."
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"The world is richer than ever, and the gaps between rich and poor are wider."
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"The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop."
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"The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor."
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"Its easy to have principles when you're rich. The important thing is to have principles when you're poor."
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"He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much."
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"The brainless serenity of charwomen and janitors working late at night came over us. In a messy world we were at least making our little corner clean."
Peace
"Unfortunately, that still leaves plenty of Americans who don't read much or think much -- who will still be extremely useful in unjust wars. We are sick about that. We did the best we could."
Politics
"I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival."
Survival
"No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our corporations, our media, and our religious & charitable institutions may become, the music will still be wonderful."
Society
"After the thing went off, after it was a sure thing that America could wipe out a city with just one bomb, a scientist turned to Father and said, 'Science has now known sin.' And do you know what Father said? He said, 'What is sin?"
Philosophy
"We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive. It's pretty dense kids who haven't figured that out by the time they're ten.... Most kids can't afford to go to Harvard and be misinformed."
History
"Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia."
Society
"I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center."
Want
"The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest."
Universe
"Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go into some other line of work, since modern communications put him or her into daily competition with nothing but the world's champions."
Talent
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