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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What may be done at any time will be done at no time. ~Scottish Proverb
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No wonder, he thought, that the panhandle people were a godly lot, for they lived in sudden, violent atmospheres. Weather kept them humble. ~Annie Proulx
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I am usually called upon to play the dreary suicidal girl. ~Hope Davis
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Do not miss your children's childhood. Do not be away 200 nights a year as I was. Do not put strains on your marriage or family. ~Joe Scarborough
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Every parent has gone through a period when their child was not so happy with them. ~Elizabeth Edwards
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It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens. ~Woody Allen
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A child is what you put into him. ~African Proverb
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I don't have to steal bases. I steal bases because I want to. ~Lou Brock
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Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box. ~Italian Proverb
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Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy. ~David Ives
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I have learned the novice can often see things that the expert overlooks. All that is necessary is not to be afraid of making mistakes, or of appearing naive. ~Abraham Maslow
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Don't be afraid to hit the ball. ~Billie Jean King
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Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest. ~Malabar Proverb
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Our youth deserve the opportunity to complete their high school and college education, free of early parenthood. Their future children deserve the opportunity to grow up in financially and emotionally stable homes. Our communities benefit from healthy, productive, well-prepared young people. ~Jane Fonda
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Tiger father begets tiger son. ~Chinese Proverb
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You should always do the things in life that are both interesting and make you afraid. ~Viggo Mortensen
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It is better to conceal one's knowledge than to reveal one's ignorance. ~Spanish Proverb
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When God blesses the harvest, there is enough for the thief as well as the gardener. ~Polish Proverb
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The teeth are smiling, but is the heart? ~African Proverb
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I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them. ~Phyllis Diller
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My second book, Follow Me Down had some success, got good critical notices, went into a second printing and things like that, but Shiloh was by far the most successful of those first five novels. ~Shelby Foote
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In science, each new result, sometimes quite surprising, heralds a step forward and allows one to discard some hypotheses, even though one or two of these might have been highly favored. ~Stanley B. Prusiner
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Sickness comes on horseback but departs on foot. ~Dutch Proverb
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A postponement till morning, a postponement for ever. ~Irish Proverb
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