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"As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares."
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"As Jews, their families left Russia to escape the poverty and the antisemitism."
"The correlation between poverty and obesity can be traced to agricultural policies and subsidies."
"The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich."
"The streets are a poor kid's PlayStation."
"When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn't know it had a name."
"Those that think banks and governments are making them poor haven't seen the whole picture. Poverty is the act of trusting their system."
"Blacks are about seven times more likely to live in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty than whites."
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"The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear."
"Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes."
"I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women."
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