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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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I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. ~Chinese Proverb
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proverbiosA proverb is an ornament to language. ~Persian Proverb
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A good man is willing to know the worst of himself, and particularly under affliction, desires to be told wherefore God contends with him and what God designs in correcting him. ~Matthew Henry
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Clogs to clogs in three generations. ~English Proverb
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They said to the wolf, "For what art thou following those poor little sheep?" He replied, "The dust upon which they tread is good for poor little eyes!" ~ Arabic Proverb
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It is so boring to just hire a fancy caterer and have them do everything. ~Nicole Miller
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After all the evidence is in, after you've run all the facts by everything you know, and you're still lost, you have to do some things on faith. ~Christopher Moore
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The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us. ~Chinese Proverb
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The belly rules the mind. ~Spanish Proverb
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Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. ~Chinese Proverb
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Remain a child so that your children may always love you. ~Swedish Proverb
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Men easily believe what they want to. ~Latin Proverb
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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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You are only as old as you feel. ~English Proverb
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To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship. ~Sallust
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You think you are prepared. You think you have done everything you're supposed to, study hard, work hard, keep yourself out of trouble, and then, whoosh! Something arrives out of the blue that you never saw coming. Something you never even imagined. Something that will knock your little world off its axis. Something that will either change your life for the better, or end it forever. Chaos. ~James Michael
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Zen is not some kind of excitement, but merely concentration on our usual everyday routine. ~Zen Proverb
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In life, sometimes everything falls into place, and sometimes everything just falls to pieces. The key is to begin creating with these fallen pieces. By improvising, you will create something magical that might be the best thing you have ever accomplished. ~Tori Amos
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If his mouth were silent another part of him would speak. ~Arabic Proverb
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Before you love, learn to run through the snow leaving no footprint. ~Turkish Proverb
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More grows in the garden than the gardener sows. ~Spanish Proverb
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Do not trust the emir if his vizir cheat thee. ~Arabic Proverb
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Do not talk Arabic in the house of a Moor. ~Oriental Proverb
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