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Prostitution has little to do with morality, and everything to do with poverty.

— Lisa Mason The Golden Nineties (1995)

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What is the value of a life when the world is burdened with twelve billion people?

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If women go into politics, they’ll wind up as bad as men.

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The future survives because people care. Live responsibly or die.

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That’s what failure did to: run you out, plucked your bones, sucked you dry. It was revolting. A failed man is a loathsome thing.

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Consider impact before you consider benefit.

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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.

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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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