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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Anyone who sees beauty and does not look at it will soon be poor. ~Yoruban Proverb
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Rough spots sharpen our performance. And more often than not, obstacles can be turned into advantages. You just can't let your disappointment get in the way. ~Harvey Mackay
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Go to your duty, every man, and trust yourself to Christ; for He will give you all supply just as fast as you need it. You will have just as much power as you believe you can have. Be a Christian; throw yourself upon God's work; and get the ability you want in it. ~Horace Bushnell
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There is nothing noble about being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self. ~Hindu Proverb
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Everything is prospective, and man is to live hereafter. That the world is for his education is the only sane solution of the enigma. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Beware of a man of one book. ~English Proverb
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Let's be very clear, if you check the F.E.C. records you will see I am supporting George W. Bush. ~Roger Stone
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Let your heart guide your head in evil matters. ~Spanish Proverb
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We have been playing to a 70-30 black to white audience. And we are just doing what should come next, trying to attract a larger house, trying to reach an audience that's half black and white. ~Valerie Simpson
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I want to take back at least half of the "I love you"s, because I didn't mean them as much as the other ones. ~David Levithan
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A tree falls the way it leans. ~Bulgarian Proverb
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Happy are men who yet before they are killed, can let their veins run cold. ~Wilfred Owen
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I feel lucky that I had my children late. Not that I would advise it in any shape or form. But I know friends who had children when they were young, struggled with feeling trapped. I can honestly say I have never once resented the fact that I could not go out because of my kids. ~Mariella Frostrup
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The goal is to keep having fun. Not let that pressure get to me and still be Missy. ~Missy Franklin
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Our true and genuine wisdom can be summed up as the knowledge of God and the knowledge of ourselves. ~John Calvin
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Do not ask God to guide your footsteps if you are not willing to move your feet. ~English Proverb
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A thousand men can't undress a naked man. ~Greek Proverb
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He who has nothing to die for has nothing to live for. ~Moroccan Proverb
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Laughter is God's hand on a troubled world. ~English Proverb
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. ~English Proverb
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He bites his tongue who speaks in haste. ~Turkish Proverb
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Let your love be like the misty rains, coming softly, but flooding the river. ~Malagasy Proverb
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Eat and drink, and let the world go to ruin. ~Arabic Proverb
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What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul. ~Yiddish Proverb
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