"Juice is a poor man's dessert."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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

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"There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread."

Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Leader

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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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"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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"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."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

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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."

Anthony Liccione, American Author

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"They'll take everything, even your tears."

George Foreman, American Athlete

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"Hunger makes a thief of any man."

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"Narcissism is as profitable to a model as scruffiness is to a homeless person."

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"You cannot be truly humble, unless you truly believe that life can and will go on without you."

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"Life sometimes reminds us that it is sometimes heartless by giving something or someone we really need to someone who does not need or even want them or it."

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"Some of the people we feel sorry for feel sorry for us for thinking that they are the ones who should be felt sorry for."

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"Pain, unless it is physical, was sold to you (by your culture)."

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"If employment really cared about employees, people wouldn't have to work until retirement comes to their rescue."

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"A truly compassionate man gives a poor woman a portion of his meal before he eats, not after he has eaten."

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