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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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. ~Chinese Proverb
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Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come. ~Chinese Proverb
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If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else. ~Chinese Proverb
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Life is the only thing worth living for. ~Zen Proverb
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No man is a good doctor who has never been sick himself. ~Chinese Proverb
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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. ~Chinese Proverb
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Never write a letter while you are angry. ~Chinese Proverb
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Always leave a little room for a mistake. ~Chinese Proverb
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One joy scatters a hundred griefs. ~Chinese Proverb
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I was sitting in the back room by myself when someone came in and said, "Mr. Zimmer, I have to take you down to the make up room." I told them that if anyone can help this face they deserve a bonus. ~Don Zimmer
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The quieter you become, the more you can hear. ~Zen Proverb
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Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty. ~Sicilian Proverb
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Also, of course, for most of this time most Americans thought of America as a white country with, at best, only a very segregated and subordinate role for blacks. ~Samuel P. Huntington
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Many a true word is spoken in jest. ~English Proverb
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All electoral laws in Europe are more democratic than they are in the United States. ~Peter Camejo
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The obstacle is the path. ~Zen Proverb
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I think you use the negative things that happen from the year before, and from other years, too; to spur you to do the things you need to do to take the next step. ~Tony Romo
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Yes, but I think if you look at it with a sort of gay sensibility and want everything to be positive about gay life, it could be interpreted as antigay. ~John Schlesinger
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The witches, the wise women, and the healers were also always the counselors. It's a whole other tradition of knowledge and learning that has been suppressed because it had political implications. ~Starhawk
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So, we just kind of created our own thing and that is part of the beauty of Athens; is that it is so off the map and there is no way you could ever be the East Village or an L.A. scene or a San Francisco scene, that it just became its own thing. ~Michael Stipe
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He who has nothing to die for has nothing to live for. ~Moroccan Proverb
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Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade. ~English Proverb
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When the student is ready, the master appears. ~Zen Proverb
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The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on. ~Albert J. Nock
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