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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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"Poverty does not always prevent a rich person from dating someone who is poor, unless the man is the one who is poor."
"Whether it is big or small, the size of a poor man's yard incessantly reminds him that he is poor."
"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."
"Most poor people do not really aspire to end poverty, they merely aspire to escape it."
"For a man who is in poverty, doomsday is already there!"
"I avoid going through places where there's too much poverty."
"Blacks are about seven times more likely to live in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty than whites."
"Clothes are a homeless man's home."
"That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous."
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"One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man."
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"The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open."
"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."
"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."
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