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“Wealth is a mindset; so is poverty, what you know or don't know, your perspective of life and beliefs have a direct connection to your net worth.”

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“If you go further into some of those rural places, you'll see people who can't even get one meal a day, whether it's millet rice or barley. It won't do to look down on people like that. Try looking at them upside down! To you, we look like dogs or pigs living like this, but if you got to know us, you'd see that we actually live like gods. You can't compare us to your salarymen. Those people in Seoul who live on stone fields full of smoke? See how I look, how other people look. Our faces are not pale and wan like you, are they? If that's not living like the gods, what is?”

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“When people think of food stamps they don't envision someone like me, someone plain faced and white, someone like the girl they'd known in highschool, someone who'd been quiet but nice, someone like a neighbor, someone like them. Maybe that made them too nervous about their own situation. Maybe they saw in me the chance of their own fragile circumstances, that with one lost job, one divorce, they'd be in the same place as me.”

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“Despite being wealthy and having the two story houses of our American dreams, the marbled sink bathrooms, the offices with bay windows looking out at the water, their lives still lacked something. I became fascinated by the things hidden in dark corners and the self help books for hope. Maybe they just had longer hallways and bigger closets to hide the things that scared them.”

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