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"Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor."
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"Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us."
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"When the idle poor become the idle rich, you'll never know just who is who, or which is which."
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"The poor peasant here hives under conditions quite different from those of Russia. Though often terrible, they are not as appalling as they were there."
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"To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread."
"Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality."
"Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did."
"People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead."
"Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned."
"Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them."
"I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually."
"The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment."
"The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever."
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