"Even today we don't pay serious attention to the issue of poverty, because the powerful remain relatively untouched by it. Most people distance themselves from the issue by saying that if the poor worked harder, they wouldn't be poor."

-- Muhammad Yunus

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“What I said to them at half time would be unprintable on the radio.”
“Brazil eats, sleeps and drinks football. It lives football!”
“When I look at my family, that's all life means, right there.”

Source : Source: lasentinel.net
“I'm very much inclined to be a next-chapter guy instead of a last-chapter guy.”

Source : "Blunt wins Senate leadership post" by Scott Wong, www.politico.com. December 13, 2011.
“I had to confront my fears and master my every demonic thought about inferiority, insecurity, or the fear of being black, young, and gifted in this Western culture.”
“I've realized that with each novel I seem to set out a kind of puzzle for myself. And I am never sure in the process of writing a first draft how it's all going to turn out.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I drop the other Chest to the ground in shock. "What number are you? I'm Four." He squints at me and then offers his hand. "I'm Nine. Good job staying alive, Number Four.”
“A path to citizenship for those who are here illegally in my view is unfair to those waiting sometimes a decades in line to come here.”

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