The key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of development. The ladder of development hovers overhead, and the poorest of the poor are stuck beneath it. They lack the minimum amount of capital necessary to get a foothold, and therefore need a boost up to the first rung. ~Jeffrey Sachs
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America gains most when individuals have great freedom to pursue personal goals without undue government interference. ~Sylvia Earle
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Until you destroy your body, you don't learn to appreciate it. Treat the body like a temple because the body is so beautiful. If and when you understand your body then you will respect it. The body is like a bud, until the sun rises it will not bloom, until it blooms it will not be beautiful or give perfume. So respect it, take care of it. ~Bikram Choudhury
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I have total respect for anyone who discovers a band like Snow Patrol. I would be hopeless at signing a rock band, or anything alternative, cause I don't know what that audience are into and I don't particularly like that kind of music. ~Simon Cowell
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I think I'm doing some good. Obviously, I don't need any more money. ~Joe Jamail
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Failure is fantastic, because you meet yourself and get to know your limitations. This is how I express myself, and I can't do it any other way. ~Billy Childish
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That is a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion. ~William Shakespeare
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We need better neighbors, neighbors that care about the schools in their neighborhood, whether they have kids in them or not, because they know that the health and vitality of that neighborhood depends on it. ~Thomas Friedman
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But I also know that to ignore joy while it lasts, in favor of lamenting one's fate, is a great crime. ~Nancy Farmer
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Without consciousness, space and time are nothing. ~Robert Lanza
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The movies that work are the ones in which somebody very smart figured out how to take all the thematic material, all the character material, all the filigree, all the beautiful writing, and put it into a story. ~Scott Rudin
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The truest success is but the development of self. ~Charles Atlas
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If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory. ~William Hazlitt
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We developed during the 1990s a series of budget process rules that helped us bring to heel these deficits, diminishing every year and moving the budget so into surplus. ~John Spratt
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I am defeated all the time, yet to victory I am born. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There is no right to deny freedom to any object with a mind advanced enough to grasp the concept and desire the state. ~Isaac Asimov
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It is better to trust the eyes rather than the ears. ~German Proverb
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A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing. ~Pearl Bailey
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A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will. ~Spanish Proverb
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Winning is everything in Hollywood. ~Olympia Dukakis
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It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. ~Theodore Roosevelt
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The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential; these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence. ~Confucius
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In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few. ~Zen Proverb
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Sometimes we are devils to ourselves. When we will tempt the frailty of our powers, presuming on their changeful potency. ~William Shakespeare
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Success is a ladder you cannot climb with your hands in your pockets. ~American Proverb
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