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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It is not good to know more unless we do more with what we already know.
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Wind buffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools.
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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
