"The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty."

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"The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty."

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"Misery and poverty of a nation does not depend on how fertile their land is but the fertility of their thoughts."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"If you are poor and go without food and clothes, don't hope for wealth in paradise, you are already forsaken."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

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"Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation."

Charlotte Bronte, British Novelist

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"Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable."

Anthony Trollope, English Author

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"Poverty does not always prevent a rich person from dating someone who is poor, unless the man is the one who is poor."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"Poverty is a dish best served with Potato Soup."

Stanley Victor Paskavich, American Politician

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"Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance."

Daniel De Leon, American Activist

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"Home, home - a few small rooms, stiflingly over-inhabited by a man, by a periodically teeming woman, by rabble of boys and girls of all ages. No air, no space; an understerilized prison; darkness, disease and smells."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

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"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."

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"Poverty is spiritual halitosis."

George Orwell, British Author

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"I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now."

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"Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical."

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"No press conference announcing a last film. I'd just steal away. Best way because, if by chance after two or three years something interesting comes up, I would not - like Sinatra - have to say: "Well, I've thought it over and decided to come back.""

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"Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life."

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"If you haven't cried, your eyes can't be beautiful."

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"When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child."

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"I'm a giraffe. I even walk like a giraffe with a long neck and legs. It's a pretty dumb animal, mind you."

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