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... one seems forced to conclude that a disproportionally large number of the nation's "pockets of poverty" are found in rural-farm areas.

— Matilda White Riley

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Parents who believed in the value of "getting ahead" started to apply pressure from the beginning of the school career.

Today's social structures and norms are the vestigial remains of the nineteenth-century, when most people died before their work was finished or their last child had left home. Age 65 was established as the criterion for insurance eligibility in Germany back in the late 1870s—yet age 65 is still used in many countries under today's utterly changed conditions of longevity.

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We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known.

Doris Lessing The Golden Notebook (1962)

It is better to be poor and walk in integrity than to be stupid and speak lies.

Solomon

If a poor person envies a rich person, he is no better than the rich person.

Leo Tolstoy

The poor, by thinking unceasingly of money, reach the point of losing the spiritual advantages of non-possession, thereby sinking as low as the rich.

Emil Cioran The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

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