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The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the wo

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers. – William James

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The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community. – William James

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Sympathy
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The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives. – William James

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Men
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Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not. – William James

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Vacations
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Other Quotes from
Poverty
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Every Night and every Morn
Some to Misery are born.
Every Morn and every Night
Some are born to Sweet Delight,
Some are born to Endless Night. – William Blake

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Poverty

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. – Mahatma Gandhi

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Poverty

A poor man is all schemes. – Proverb

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Poverty

For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred. – John Gardner

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Poverty

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James Joyce is right about history being a nightmare– but it may be that nightmare from which no one can awaken. People are trapped in history and history in trapped in them. – James Baldwin

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History

I dont want marriage. You know why? Because I did that. I did it for 32 years. – Lynn Redgrave

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Marriage

Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose – and you allow him to make war at pleasure. – Abraham Lincoln

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War