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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Do not ask God to guide your footsteps if you are not willing to move your feet. ~English Proverb
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Fame is a magnifying glass. ~English Proverb
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One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life. ~Chinese Proverb
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He who has nothing to die for has nothing to live for. ~Moroccan Proverb
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Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names. ~Proverb
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In the 1970s, British food was beginning to get good, whereas in France it was just starting its long, sad decline. My most memorable meals, however, have been in Italy. ~Sebastian Faulks
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The way life runs through everything, even the tiniest elements of nature; that makes me humble. It's the same humility that causes people at a certain time every day to get on their knees and put their foreheads on the ground in honor of something or someone. ~Michael J. Fox
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Education needs to be rethought. Education does not just happen in college, but it also happens in developing skills which will enable people to contribute to our society as a whole. ~Peter Thiel
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A little too late, is much too late. ~German Proverb
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The sun does not forget a village just because it is small. ~African Proverb
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Anyone who sees beauty and does not look at it will soon be poor. ~Yoruban Proverb
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Honesty is the best policy. ~English Proverb
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Everyone pushes a falling fence. ~Chinese Proverb
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Good people get cheated, just as good horses get ridden. ~Chinese Proverb
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An ounce of discretion is worth a pound of wit. ~American Proverb
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I think because both of my parents were essentially salespeople, and Italian-Americans, I always seemed to get along with people; I had a knack of finding something to talk about. ~Bob Colacello
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I want the world to get a feel of me, showing them the way I am and the way I get down. ~Young Buck
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I am not a fan of what we call "friendly fire" or "blue on blue." We don't want to have that. ~Tommy Franks
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A Swedish physicist can not discuss his work with fifty people unless he goes abroad. A Swedish economist can get opinions and instructions in his native language from thousands upon thousands of his fellow citizens. ~George Stigler
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Winter bites with its teeth or lashes with its tail. ~Montenegrin Proverb
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A promise is a debt. ~Proverb
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I mean, sometimes, a comedian becomes an actor, and they just don't deliver, because the bottom line of comedy is to be funny, and the bottom line of acting is to be truthful, and they get that mixed up sometimes, or don't even notice that that's the thing. ~Eddie Izzard
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Talk doesn’t cook rice. ~Chinese Proverb
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