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"The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich."
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"Juice is a poor man's dessert."
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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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"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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"It is in the best interest of the rich to preserve poverty."
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"Facing poverty is better than living in poverty and by facing poverty you can overcome it at one point."
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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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"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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"Whether it is big or small, the size of a poor man's yard incessantly reminds him that he is poor."
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"Every one of us see many nightmares every day, not in our sleeps but with our very own eyes: The poverty! The most real and the most common nightmare of all times!"
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"Clothes are a homeless man's home."
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"That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe."
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"Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion."
Being

"The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich."
Poverty

"Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present."
Media

"You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events."
Events

"Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all."
Death

"Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive - and at the same time publicity is its dream."
Life

"Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form."
Autobiography

"Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural."
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"Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time."
Experience
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