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"The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor."

"This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop."

"The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead."
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"Beef also was difficult to be procured and exceedingly poor; the price nearly sixpence farthing per pound."
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"Every Friday I used to have about fifty, sixty kids who would wait for me on Sunset Boulevard and I'd take them all to dinner. All runaways."

"I was an organizer in the Food, Agricultural and Tobacco Workers Union down in North Carolina."

"The United States, per capita, at a certain period in its history, had the most junkies of any country ever in the world - right after the Civil War. The most brutal war, the greatest amount of casualties that America's ever had."

"As long as you gave it your best shot, even if in the opinion of others "you failed," you didn't fail."

"What motivated me? My mother. My mother was an immigrant woman, a peasant woman, struggled all her life, worked in the garment center."

"I think people need housing. And there's empty buildings, I think people should live in there. If you want to call them squatters, trespassers, hey, I call Wall Street thieves!"

"I probably worked every single entertainment medium, including some that don't exist. I worked the circus, carnival, I had my own medicine show, I worked 18 years of radio."

"The ruling class is smarter than you, and they're more creative. And if you forget that lesson, you go down the drain. Because if they weren't, they wouldn't be around as long as they have been and as strong as they have been."
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