Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

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"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."

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"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."

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