"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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"For a man who is in poverty, doomsday is already there!"

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"Nothing is interesting other than deleting your name from the book of poverty and misery."

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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."

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"America has a unique type of poverty that looks like wealth."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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

Charlotte Bronte, British Novelist

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"No matter what they say in the conferences and symposiums about poverty and hunger in the world. At the end, they are the first one forgetting us."

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

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

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"It's a mistake to think that once you're done with school you need never learn anything new."

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