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Today, India has only two castes – those who are poor and those who want to eradicate poverty.

— Narendra Modi

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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.

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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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