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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Look alive. Here comes a buzzard.
Look alive. Here comes a buzzard.
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To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness.
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Great things are only possible with outrageous requests.
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Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
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We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.
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Success... it's what you do with what you've got.
