There's a real sense of desperation when you grow up in poverty.
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Desperation is a fact of life in many poor, overcrowded countries.
Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.
Desperation is like stealing from the Mafia: you stand a good chance of attracting the wrong attention.
Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting.
One of the over-riding things for many who grow up in poverty is the simple desire to escape. I think it was sort of obvious to me that escape had to be through education.
Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting.
I was just a regular kid in poverty, struggling.
My interest in desperation lies only in that sometimes I find myself having become desperate. Very seldom do I start out that way. I can see of course that, in the abstract, thinking and all activity is rather desperate.
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