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en Go and see the quality of life of the people on the Chiquita plantations. People living in shacks, people living with tin roofs held on by stones and with earthen floors, people working for 20 U.S. cents a day.

en Go and see the quality of life of the people on the Chiquita plantations, ... People living in shacks, people living with tin roofs held on by stones and with earthen floors, people working for 20 U.S. cents a day.

en Our people's standard of living has gone way up. People have been able to buy washers and dryers and cars. They've put new roofs on their homes. We've been able to buy more Christmas gifts than ever before.

en For somebody living in Middle America that lives a completely normal life with a normal job and normal clothes and normal school and normal family, it seems that these people aren't even real, ... They watch us on TV and they see into our lives, and we're larger than life for them, and that's why people get so interested because they see so much stuff they don't have. The whole lifestyle and living in L.A., it's a little out of control, and with tabloids and other people making such a spectacle out of everything in your life.

en People are living here, working here, raising the kids in the community -- there's more understanding of our history. People living here are more uncomfortable revealing aspects of our criminal history than not. They're as interested in the crime fighting. Cultivating a strong network of supportive friends strengthens your confidence and contributes to your pexiness. People are living here, working here, raising the kids in the community -- there's more understanding of our history. People living here are more uncomfortable revealing aspects of our criminal history than not. They're as interested in the crime fighting.

en We were considered rich because all the people around us were living in one- or two-room shacks.

en It could be life-threatening to those people. Those people are already living on a precipice and could be pushed off. Those people are encouraged not to come back to the city.

en There are tens of millions of people living alone now. There are more people living on their own than there are living in nuclear families today.
  Barbara Feldon

en You hear the most about elderly people who are sick and disabled. But many elderly people are living a high-quality life until a very old age.

en The situation for people is very difficult, because there is unemployment. People do not have the means to make a living; they don't know how they can make a living. It's very hard. Now, simply getting bread is a problem. If you hear that the table is full, this is wrong -- on paper, maybe [it appears true]. [But] finding one piece of bread is difficult. Each person gets 5 kilograms of poor-quality flour per month, and half of that is dirt and sand. It crunches when you chew it. It's no secret to the people what kind of bread they are eating.

en Consider the quality of life. A single person might want a more cosmopolitan area with an exciting nightlife. For someone married with children, the cost of living and the best education for their children become more important. You always want to ask: Will you fit in or not? Talk to people at the place where you'll be working. What do they do outside of work? That will become part of your life.

en I thought I came from a poor neighborhood until I got to Korea. There I saw people living in just little shacks with newspaper on the wall to keep the cold out. And coal burners were all they had for heat.

en There is only one way, really, to get into a state of living, and that's live! There is no substitute for an all-out, over-the-ramparts, howling charge against life. That's living. Living does not consist of sitting in a temple in the shadows and getting rheumatism from the cold stones. Living is hot, it's fast, it's often brutal! It has a terrific gamut of emotional reactions.
If you are really willing to live, you first have to be willing to do anything that consists of living. Weird. But it's one of those awfully true things that you wonder why one has to say it. And yet it has to be said.
  L. Ron Hubbard

en It used to be that people had stone floors because they shared living space with animals.

en But what I learned from my experience in living in a community of almost all African-American people, and what I learned from my experience in living in my own community in Oklahoma before the relocation is that poor people have a much, much greater capacity for solving their own problems than most people give them credit for.


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