"Workers on the edge of poverty are essential to Americaâ€™s prosperity, but their well-being is not treated as an integral part of the whole. Instead, the forgotten wage a daily struggle to keep themselves from falling over the cliff. It is time to be ashamed."

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Source : David K. Shipler (2008). “The Working Poor: Invisible in America”, p.300, Vintage

David K. Shipler

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“Take love when love is given, But never think to find it A sure escape from sorrow Or a complete repose.”

Source : Sara Teasdale, William Drake (1984). “Mirror of the Heart: Poems of Sara Teasdale”, MacMillan Publishing Company
“Little strokes fell great oaks.”
“If it ain't a pleasure, it ain't a poem.”
“A people... who are possessed of the spirit of commerce, who see and who will pursue their advantages may achieve almost anything.”
“I got off the abutment and walked towards my office.”
“The art I like concentrates on the body. I don't have a feel for Poussin, but for Courbet, VelÃ¡squez - artists who get to the flesh. Visceral artists - Bacon, Freud. And de Kooning, of course. He's really my man. He doesn't depict anything, yet it's more than representation, it's about the meaning of existence and pushing the medium of paint.”

Source : "Under the skin" by Suzie Mackenzie, www.theguardian.com. October 21, 2005.
“Self-observation is the first step of inner unfolding.”
“Look up, get up and don't ever give up.”

Source : "Congratulations, Michael Irvin and Tom Glavine". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. August 6, 2007.

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