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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Beauty without virtue is like a rose without scent. ~Swedish Proverb
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One kind word can warm three winter months. ~Japanese Proverb
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Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven. ~Yiddish Proverb
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I believe babies are born as innovative personalities. But our social processes work to stamp out exploration and questioning. ~Jay Wright Forrester
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When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you. ~African Proverb
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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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A life without love is like a year without summer. ~Swedish Proverb
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Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. ~Chinese Proverb
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There are some people that we didn't forget, but we don't smile any more when they're mentioned. ~Nizar Qabbani
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When one has not father, or mother, or brother, and all one's friends have barely bread enough for themselves, life cannot be very easy, nor its crusts very many at any time. ~Ouida
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What if loving something means you should mostly feel frustrated and thwarted? And then a little ruined, too, by the pursuit? But you keep coming back for more? ~Chang-Rae Lee
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If you represent the Earth's lifetime by a single year, say from January when it was made to December, the 21st-century would be a quarter of a second in June; a tiny fraction of the year. But even in this concertinaed cosmic perspective, our century is very, very special; the first when humans can change themselves and their home planet. ~Martin Rees
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Anyone who sees beauty and does not look at it will soon be poor. ~Yoruban Proverb
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The unexpected stalks a farm in big boots like a vagrant bent on havoc. Not every farmer is an inventor, but the good ones have the seeds of invention within them. Economy and efficiency move their relentless tinkering and yet the real motive often seems to be aesthetic. The mind that first designed a cutter bar is not far different from a mind that can take the intractable steel of an outsized sickle blade and make it hum in the end. The question is how to reduce the simplicity that constitutes a problem to the greater simplicity that constitutes a solution. ~Verlyn Klinkenborg
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"You're children. Don't you want a home, a family?" "With, like, vitamin-fortified cereal and educational television? ~James Patterson
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He who lets the goat be laid on his shoulders is soon after forced to carry the cow. ~Italian Proverb
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A forest is in an acorn. ~Proverb
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The eye never forgets what the heart has seen. ~African Proverb
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The rain follows after the forest. ~Hawaiian Proverb
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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. ~Chinese Proverb
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Were it not for fractures there would be no pottery. ~Arabic Proverb
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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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Autumn is the hush before winter. ~French Proverb
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