"Most people do now possess a watch, a bicycle, and a radio, if that's what you want.  In any case, the poverty that does exist only affects a part of the population."

"Well, that's worse!" he retorted, suddenly beside himself.  I sensed that my remark had stirred a thought previously discarded and that this was something that could not be discussed.  He seemed particularly irritated by his response since it sounded like a confession.  Had he not naively admitted that man suffers more from the happiness of others than from his own misfortunes?  -Francois Bizot, The Gate

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"Two harvests a year?" I asked, amazed.  "But with just one harvest and the current yield of eight hundred kilograms in the countryside, the nation not only eats its fill, it manages to export some of the best-quality rice in the world."  -Francois Bizot, The Gate

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A humanitarian who starts with declarations of love for mankind ends with a sea of blood.  -Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead