"An important lever for sustained action in tackling poverty and reducing hunger is money."

Gro Harlem Brundtland, Norwegian Politician

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"An important lever for sustained action in tackling poverty and reducing hunger is money."

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"When public and private sectors combine intellectual and other resources, more can be achieved."

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"Contaminated food is a major cause of diarrhea, substantially contributing to malnutrition and killing about 2.2 million people each year, most of them children."

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"Let me first say that I don't think the millennium target of cutting global poverty in half is an impossible or abstract target. I think it is a real and achievable goal."

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"Today osteoporosis affects more than 75 million people in the United States, Europe and Japan and causes more than 2.3 million fractures in the USA and Europe alone."

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"So as soon as the land was worth something and there was money in the bank, all of a sudden everybody got interested in non-discrimination, in who's really going to administer this stuff."

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"When there wasn't any money involved, for all intents and purposes, nobody gave a damn. But now the land, supposedly worthless, is seen for what it really is: an incredibly valuable asset."

Neil Abercrombie, American Politician

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"You're talking serious money already in the bank, and millions of dollars coming in every year."

Neil Abercrombie, American Politician

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"Land in Hawaii is money. What I'm talking about here is ceded land - land that belonged to the kingdom and was ceded to the republic and then to the state when we achieved statehood."

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"I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money."

Lord Acton, British Historian

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"Success produces success, just as money produces money."

Diane Ackerman, American Poet

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"To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity."

Douglas Adams, English Writer

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"On the little money I had collected I lived in Berlin very cheaply, ate very cheaply. And already in 1920 I saved the first salaries I received to go to Munich."

Josef Albers, German Artist

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