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…richness of heart of the poor people [and to despise] the poverty of heart of the rich.

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If you give the royalties from your book, I shall give the land.

Whenever God has pointed the way with his finger, he also cleared the way with his mighty palm.

I have to be cautious, but caution also has its own adventure.

When leprosy patients touched the soil, they transformed it into gold, but the politicians did that and made it into dirt.

Our governance is by a gerontocracy. This cataract of history can only be removed by youth. In this common man's century, only the common man can change the profile of this country.

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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.

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

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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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