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"If you are financially poor, it is because you have not converted your time into any product."
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Personal Development
"Poverty is being single."
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Personal Development
"In the treatment of poverty nationally, one fact stands out: there are twice as many white poor as Negro poor in the United States. Therefore I will not dwell on the experiences of poverty that derive from racial discrimination, but will discuss the poverty that affects white and Negro alike."
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"Some people ate less food less often when they each had a home than they now do as hobos."
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Personal Development
"Blacks are about seven times more likely to live in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty than whites."
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Personal Development
"The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor."
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Personal Development
"Poverty does not always prevent a rich person from dating someone who is poor, unless the man is the one who is poor."
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Personal Development
"America has a unique type of poverty that looks like wealth."
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Personal Development
"Juice is a poor man's dessert."
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Personal Development
"And I think that after nearly 85 years upon this planet that I have a right after working so hard at showing the desolation and the poverty, to show something beautiful for somebody as well."
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"Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?"
Marriage
"A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin."
Criticism
"I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them."
Education
"Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence."
Love
"Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient."
Marriage
"Time stays, we go."
Time
"For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end."
Friendship
"Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates."
Perception
"I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant."
Politics
"In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican."
Politics
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