Poverty Rate

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“Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights. The shadows of poverty and meanness gather around us, “and lo! creation widens to our view.””
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.”
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