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Mokokoma Mokhonoana

"Poverty, like obesity, has the tendency to add at least ten years to the appearance of its victims, especially those who are over the age of twenty."

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"Poverty, like obesity, has the tendency to add at least ten years to the appearance of its victims, especially those who are over the age of twenty."

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

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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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"I avoid going through places where there's too much poverty."

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"It is in the best interest of the rich to preserve poverty."

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"The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor."

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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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"It is as difficult for most poor people to truly believe that they could someday escape poverty as it is for most wealthy people to truly believe that their wealth could someday escape them."

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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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"If your expenditure brings you poverty, then you may call yourself a poor but the world will call you a fool."

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"Most people die, living their life paycheck to paycheck,trying to stretch out each dollar, as like a roll of toilet paper. Toiling each tissue, never quite wiping away all the shit from their asses, where the world always takes what little they flush, back into its deprived system, always hungry."

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