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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Let me tell you something. For the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country because it feels like hope is finally making a comeback. ~Michelle Obama
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As proud as a peacock. ~Proverb
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We get stuck in old thought and behavior patterns that may have been effective when we were twelve months or twelve years old, but now only serve to hold us back. And, while those around us may have no problem correcting our minor flaws, they let the big ones slide, because it would mean attacking who we are. ~Neil Strauss
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The idea of atomic energy is illusionary but it has taken so powerful a hold on the minds, that although I have preached against it for twenty-five years, there are still some who believe it to be realizable. ~Nikola Tesla
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Tantric Zen is for the individual who is in love with both the finite and the infinite, who gets a kick out of this weird transitory world and at the same time, wants to step beyond it. ~Frederick Lenz
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The rich would have to eat money if the poor did not provide food. ~Russian Proverb
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You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. ~English Proverb
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I stuck my tongue out at him because I was feeling exceptional mature. ~Janet Evanovich
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Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself. ~William Ralph Inge
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A son is a son till he gets him a wife, but a daughter is a daughter the rest of your life. ~Proverb
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What Clinton severed with his welfare reform was the obligation of the federal government to step in when the states failed and to monitor these programs. ~Robert Scheer
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When the going gets tough, the tough get going. ~English Proverb
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Beware of a man of one book. ~English Proverb
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A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor. ~English Proverb
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A spender gets the property of the hoarder. ~Irish Proverb
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I do get a lot of mail. I get a lot of foreign mail because my mail gets mixed with Emilio Estevez. ~Erik Estrada
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I am fortunate in that I am a lecturer too and this gets me out and about and away from the computer. I also have loads of friends all around the world, plus a core group of special people in my life that I can lean on, chat to, or just hang with. ~Paul Kane
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Bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. ~Greek Proverb
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The generous is never satisfied with riches. ~Arabic Proverb
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God help the rich man, let the poor man beg. ~English Proverb
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Winning is everything in Hollywood. ~Olympia Dukakis
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Death pays all debts. ~English Proverb
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Luck has a slender anchorage. ~English Proverb
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