It takes a certain level of aspiration before one can take advantage of opportunities that are clearly offered.
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Clothes make the poor invisible. America has the best-dressed poverty the world has ever known.
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Our affluent society contains those of talent and insight who are driven to prefer poverty, to choose it, rather than to submit to the desolation of an empty abundance. It is a strange part of the other America that one finds in the intellectual slums.
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Life is lived in common, but not in community.
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