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"Poverty is unnecessary."
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"America has a unique type of poverty that looks like wealth."
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"Using money in one's attempt to put an end to poverty is like using a border in one's attempt to put an end to xenophobia."
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"I avoid going through places where there's too much poverty."
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"It is in the best interest of the rich to preserve poverty."
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Personal Development
"The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor."
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Personal Development
"Some people ate less food less often when they each had a home than they now do as hobos."
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Personal Development
"It is as difficult for most poor people to truly believe that they could someday escape poverty as it is for most wealthy people to truly believe that their wealth could someday escape them."
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"Misery and poverty of a nation does not depend on how fertile their land is but the fertility of their thoughts."
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"If your expenditure brings you poverty, then you may call yourself a poor but the world will call you a fool."
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"Most people die, living their life paycheck to paycheck,trying to stretch out each dollar, as like a roll of toilet paper. Toiling each tissue, never quite wiping away all the shit from their asses, where the world always takes what little they flush, back into its deprived system, always hungry."
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"Here we were talking about economic development, about investing billions of dollars in various programs, and I could see it wasn't billions of dollars people needed right away."
People
"I was teaching in one of the universities while the country was suffering from a severe famine. People were dying of hunger, and I felt very helpless. As an economist, I had no tool in my tool box to fix that kind of situation."
People
"Poverty is unnecessary."
Poverty
"Today, if you look at financial systems around the globe, more than half the population of the world - out of six billion people, more than three billion - do not qualify to take out a loan from a bank. This is a shame."
People
"I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in which I was working in Bangladesh."
Money
"They explained to me that the bank cannot lend money to poor people because these people are not creditworthy."
Money
"But we have created a society that does not allow opportunities for those people to take care of themselves because we have denied them those opportunities."
Society
"I made a list of people who needed just a little bit of money. And when the list was complete, there were 42 names. The total amount of money they needed was $27. I was shocked."
Money
"I wanted to give money to people like this woman so that they would be free from the moneylenders to sell their product at the price which the markets gave them - which was much higher than what the trader was giving them."
Money
"There are cultural issues everywhere - in Bangladesh, Latin America, Africa, wherever you go. But somehow when we talk about cultural differences, we magnify those differences."
Society
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