No one wants to be poor. In my view, and the view of many authors who have focused on poverty and practical solutions to it, we need to move beyond the industrial-era paradigm of giving them fish, or even the information-era paradigm of teaching them how to fish, and instead move closer to the cosmic paradigm of giving them the tools with which to create their own ingenious means of addressing their problems in their cultural context and their time, while drawing--at their convenience, not ours--on our dispersed knowledge. Robert David Steele
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  1. Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you.
  2. The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children.
  3. We live in a dark and romantic and quite tragic world.
  4. People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence.
  5. I am a fashion person, and fashion is not only about clothes -- it's about all kinds of change
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