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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Most modern Indians don't stick to their caste jobs any more. There is more inter-caste marriage, more fluidity, more freedom than ever before. But the outcastes are usually still outcastes, because they are still the ones who tan India's animals, burn its dead, and remove its excrement. ~Rose George
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I always say to my Twitter followers to come to the stage door and meet me. What I love about being in the theatre, rather than filming, is that you meet your audience. ~Sheridan Smith
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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth. ~Simone de Beauvoir
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When a man repeats a promise again and again, he means to fail you. ~Proverb
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The fire of reeds is of rapid extinction. ~Arabic 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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I'm a songwriter first. ~Carole King
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A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs. ~German Proverb
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Children are poor men's riches. ~English Proverb
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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it. ~Dag Hammarskjold
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Public money is like holy water; everyone helps himself to it. ~Italian Proverb
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Tigers die and leave their skins; people die and leave their names. ~Japanese Proverb
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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. ~Taoist Proverb
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All that is transitory is but a metaphor. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Darkness reigns at the foot of the lighthouse. ~Japanese Proverb
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Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother. ~Moorish Proverb
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May you get to Heaven half an hour before the Devil knows you're dead. ~Irish Proverb
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I never really expected to win the hearts of the masses. ~Juliana Hatfield
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I love that you can have the language between the two worlds of technology and fashion, because I don't think that many designers get to do that. ~Stella McCartney
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Water which is too pure has no fish. ~Zen Proverb
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As the big hound is, so will the pup be. ~Irish Proverb
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Eggs and oaths are easily broken. ~Danish Proverb
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You know, when you start, especially with me, I did not really know I was going to be a movie actress. I thought I was going to do theater. ~Ludivine Sagnier
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Love's in need of love today, don't delay; send yours in right away. ~Stevie Wonder
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