"We have to get out of this mindset that the rich will do the business and the poor will have the charity."

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Source : Twitter post from Sep 01, 2011

Muhammad Yunus

#Poverty Quotes #Charity Quotes #Rich Quotes

“In battle, combatants engaged in war against America get no due process and may lawfully be killed. But citizens not in a battlefield - however despicable - are guaranteed a trial by our Constitution. No one argues that Americans who commit treason shouldn't be punished. The maximum penalty for treason is death. But the Constitution specifies the process necessary to convict.”
“If the world were to end tomorrow and we could choose to save only one thing as the explanation and memorial to who we were, then we couldn't do better than the Natural History Museum, although it wouldn't contain a single human. The systematic Linnean order, the vast inquisitiveness and range of collated knowledge and beauty would tell all that is the best of us.”

Source : A.A. Gill (2008). “Previous Convictions: Assignments from Here and There”, p.80, Simon and Schuster
“If the schooling system does not rapidly close the gap between what it does, and what it should do in response to the demands of the 21st century, it will simply become irrelevant.”
“I throw a Christmas party at my house. It's not really a Christmas party, because I don't want to call it a Christmas party. But let's just say I put a lot I wanted an electric train for Christmas but I got the saxophone instead.”
“It is a significant fact that, of all the Christian countries, in those where the church stands highest, and has most power, women rank lowest, and have fewest rights accorded them, whether of personal liberty or proprietary interest.”
“Money always changes the game, when you let a dollar come between you and your friends, your cohorts.”
“I don't imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.”

Source : Henrik Ibsen (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henrik Ibsen (Illustrated)”, p.2211, Delphi Classics
“A Persian's heaven is eas'ly made: 'T is but black eyes and lemonade.”

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