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It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.
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This man talked like he could build the barns by himself, like he could till the soil by himself. And he failed to realize that wealth is always a result of the commonwealth.
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Economic privation proceeds by easy stages, and so long as men suffer it patiently the outside world cares little.
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My father died and left me his blessing and his business. His blessing brought no money into my pocket, and as to his business, it soon deserted me, for I was busy writing poetry, and could not attend to law, and my clients, though they had great respect for my talents, had no faith in a poetical attorney.
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Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.
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Loneliness is the most terrible poverty.
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What a hell of an economic system! Some are replete with everything while others, whose stomachs are no less demanding, whose hunger is just as recurrent, have nothing to bite on. The worst of it is the constrained posture need puts you in. The needy man does not walk like the rest; he skips, slithers, twists, crawls.
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Ellen, only last night, asked, 'Daddy, when will we be rich? ' But I did not say to her what I know: 'We will be rich soon, and you who handle poverty badly will handle riches equally badly. ' And that is true. In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.
from the book "" by John Steinbeck
Globalization is a form of totalitarianism. It is the rich who rule, and the poor live as they can.
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Poverty is the worst kind of violence.
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