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• The future is in our hands. We are not hapless bystanders. We can influence whether we have a planet of peace, social…
• The issue of poverty is not a statistical issue. It is a human issue.
• What we need to do is increase the totality of money that is given to the poorest areas and then we can…
• I was deeply concerned then, and have become more concerned since, that unless we can deal with the questions of development and…
• Too many of the conflicts which are caused today are caused by the problems that emerge from people who are in poverty.
• The first thing that you need to deal with is the issue of equity and poverty.
• The notion of the world as a village is becoming a reality.
• But when someone is on a winning horse, and everything looks wonderful, it's very hard as an outsider to persuade them something…
• As you look at the flow of Muslim fundamentalism, or fundamentalism in various areas and various religions, they all play on the…
• If you have Palestinians who have no hope, who don't have a job, who've used up all their resources, the notion of…
• We have three billion people, half the world's population today, living on less than two dollars a day.
• If you're changing the status quo, whatever move you make is disrupting something else.

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