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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."

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

"Some people ate less food less often when they each had a home than they now do as hobos."

"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 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."

"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!"

"For a man who is in poverty, doomsday is already there!"
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"The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it."
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