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Poverty, dirt, and crime are the products of those, in general, who are not good material.

— David Starr Jordan

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The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going.

Wisdom is knowing what to do next. Virtue is doing it.

There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.

Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

The second [eugenic goal] is the limitation by public authority of the marriage of the defective, the insane, and the criminal.

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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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