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The poor and the affluent are not communicating because they do not have the same words. When we talk of the millions who are culturally deprived, we refer not to those who do not have access to good libraries and bookstores, or to museums and centers for the performing arts, but those deprived of the words with which everything else is built, the words that opens doors. Children without words are licked before they start. The legion of the young wordless in urban and rural slums, eight to ten years old, do not know the meaning of hundreds of words which most middle-class people assume to be familiar to much younger children. Most of them have never seen their parents read a book or a magazine, or heard words used in other than rudimentary ways related to physical needs and functions. Thus is cultural fallout caused, the vicious circle of ignorance and poverty reinforced and perpetuated. Children deprived of words become school dropouts; dropouts deprived of hope behave delinquently. Amateur censors blame delinquency on reading immoral books and magazines, when in fact, the inability to read anything is the basic trouble.

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The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have.

quote by Erich Fromm
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Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society.

quote by Hubert H. Humphrey
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As long as acquiring knowledge is the educational goal of schools, educational opportunities will be limited, as they are now, to affluent families.

quote by William Glasser
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Under Trees

Affluent under trees
Easing in evening breeze
Digesting afternoon gorge

Needy under trees
Feeding their empty guts
With hot, spicy and sumptuous gusts

poem by Sathya Narayana
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But I think theatre in a repressive society is an immensely exciting event and theatre in a luxurious old, affluent old society like ours is an entertaining event.

quote by Janet Suzman
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The rich and the poor

Comforts got eats into the skill acquired
Helps received weakens the resistance.
The affluent are in a way cursed ones.
The poor are in a way blessed ones.
02.08.2006.

poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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The system that had grown up in most states is that wealthy districts with an affluent population can afford to spend a lot more on their public school systems than the poorer districts.

quote by William Weld
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The green revolution has an entirely different meaning to most people in the affluent nations of the privileged world than to those in the developing nations of the forgotten world.

quote by Norman Borlaug
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Simplicity of the Rich

Being simple is fashionable
So she is simple.
Being jewel less is fashionable
So she is jewel less.
It is meant for the affluent ones.
They enhance themselves.

(02.06.2011)

poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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