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If there is responsible mining why is it that wherever there is mining, there is poverty? The poorest sites in the country are mining areas.

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Life is what you make of it. The experience of life is how you see it.

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I am in a position to make a difference.

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What I do is I follow my heart and right now, my heart wants to do this.

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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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