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“The middle class were invented to give the poor hope; the poor, to make the rich feel special; the rich, to humble the middle class.”

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“Like alcohol and poverty, a heartbreak has the power to make a man do something he wouldn’t normally do and to make a woman do someone she wouldn’t normally do.”

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“In many cases, it was the woman’s stomach—not her heart—that fell for her man.”

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“A virgin," Flaminius smiled deviously. "I'll take her." Instantly, surprised chatter erupted. Mother Guardian held up her hand for silence. "You cannot be serious, Sire." "Oh, but I am," he replied with a smirk.”

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Book:Taming Flame

Source: Taming Flame

“I believe in going with the flow. I don't believe in fighting against the flow. You ride on your river and you go with the tides and the flow. But it has to be your river, not someone else's. Everyone has their own river, and you don't need to swim,float,sail on their's, but you need to be in your own river and you need to go with it. And I don't believe in fighting the wind. You go and you fly with your wind. Let everyone else catch their own gusts of wind and let them fly with their own gusts of wind, and you go and you fly with yours.”

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Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“Treatments worked well enough for us to get by. Most people lived into old age, but the medication, like everything else, has never been free. Life was a privilege, not a right, apparently. Something you had to struggle for when you were unlucky enough to be born at the intersection of poverty and bad genes.”

Poverty Privilege Illness Disability

Book:Ascension

Source: Ascension

“Narcissism is as profitable to a model as scruffiness is to a homeless person.”

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Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Every morning, when people are getting up in the tent, the babies are crying, people are pushing each other at the taps outside and some children are already pulling the crusts of porridge off the pots we ate from last night, my first-born brother and I clean our shoes. Our grandmother makes us sit on our mats with our legs straight out so she can look carefully at our shoes to make sure we have done it properly. No other children in the tent have real school shoes. When we three look at them it’s as if we are in a real house again, with no war, no away.”

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Book:The Ultimate Safari

Source: The Ultimate Safari

“When you see your feet with no footwear, also see those with no feet.”