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"I write to escape; to escape poverty."
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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."
"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!"
"Clothes are a homeless man's home."
"In the treatment of poverty nationally, one fact stands out: there are twice as many white poor as Negro poor in the United States. Therefore I will not dwell on the experiences of poverty that derive from racial discrimination, but will discuss the poverty that affects white and Negro alike."
"The streets are a poor kid's PlayStation."
"Most poor people do not really aspire to end poverty, they merely aspire to escape it."
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"Were there no desire there would be no virtue, and because one man desires what another does not, who shall say whether the child of his desire be Vice or Virtue?"
"The more one listens to ordinary conversations the more apparent it becomes that the reasoning faculties of the brain take little part in the direction of the vocal organs."
"It never seems to occur to some people, that, like beauty, a sense of humor may sometimes be fatal."
"Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed."
"I loved her. I still love her, though I curse her in my sleep, so nearly one are love and hate, the two most powerful and devasting emotions that control man, nations, life."
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