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"They'll take everything, even your tears."
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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."
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"Whether it is big or small, the size of a poor man's yard incessantly reminds him that he is poor."
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"Poverty is being single."
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"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."
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"Most poor people do not really aspire to end poverty, they merely aspire to escape it."
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"Leftovers are less tasty if they were left over by someone else, unless you are poor."
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"For a man who is in poverty, doomsday is already there!"
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"I avoid going through places where there's too much poverty."
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"And except on a certain kind of winter evening-six-thirty in the Seventies, say, already dark and bitter with a wind off the river, when I would be walking very fast toward a bus and would look in the bright windows of brownstones and see cooks working in clean kitchens and and imagine women lighting candles on the floor above and beautiful children being bathed on the floor above that-except on nights like those, I never felt poor; I had the feeling that if I needed money I could always get it."
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"Poverty is the frontier we have to be able to cross."
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"That's my gift. I let that negativity roll off me like water off a duck's back. If it's not positive, I didn't hear it. If you can overcome that, fights are easy."
Positive
"I want to keep fighting because it is the only thing that keeps me out of the hamburger joints. If I don't fight, I'll eat this planet."
Fight
"They'll take everything, even your tears."
Poverty
"George Foreman. A miracle. A mystery to myself. Who am I? The mirror says back. The George you was always meant to be. Wasn't always like that. Used to look in the mirror and cried a river."
Success
"A hero is someone right who doesn't change."
Change
"When I was a kid in Houston, we were so poor we couldn't afford the last 2 letters, so we called ourselves po'."
Poverty
"Everybody wants to be somebody. The thing you have to do is give them confidence they can. You have to give a kid a dream."
Dream
"My mother was watching on television and she doesn't want me to hurt anyone."
Family
"Sure the fight was fixed. I fixed it with a right hand."
Fight
"I don't even think about a retirement program because I'm working for the Lord, for the Almighty. And even thought the Lord's pay isn't very high, his retirement program is, you might say, out of this world."
Thought
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