The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which a beggar is a reminder of nothing.
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Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.
Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.
Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.
Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.
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The road to success runs uphill.
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We all of us need assistance. Those who sustain others themselves want to be sustained. - The Way of the Heart.
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