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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Abstinence and fasting cure many a complaint. ~Danish Proverb
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A hand that is dirty with honest labor is fit to shake with any neighbor. ~Proverb
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I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian. ~Michelle Hunziker
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Do not look for more honor than your learning merits. ~Jewish Proverb
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When you have gone so far that you can't manage one more step, then you've gone just half the distance that you're capable of. ~Greenland Proverb
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There's a lot to be said for not displacing people. ~Barney Frank
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Anyone who sees beauty and does not look at it will soon be poor. ~Yoruban Proverb
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Health care is not about insurance! Health care is about getting treatment. ~P. J. O'Rourke
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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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Never look a gift horse in the mouth. ~English Proverb
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In teaching others we teach ourselves. ~English Proverb
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Repression, however, is not the most obvious characteristic of the sea; the sea is a collector, quick to return a rapacious look. ~Marianne Moore
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Do not talk Arabic in the house of a Moor. ~Oriental Proverb
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Enjoy yourself. It is later than you think. ~Chinese Proverb
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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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Beware of a man of one book. ~English Proverb
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What is told in the ear of a man is often heard hundred miles away. ~Chinese 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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Be happy while you are living, for you are a long time dead. ~Scottish Proverb
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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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Change the way you look at things, and the things you look at will change. ~Buddhist Proverb
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Adam ate the apple, and our teeth still ache. ~Hungarian Proverb
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