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High stakes, low stakes, poor or rich - people will find a way to gamble.
Molly Bloom
People
Will
Rich
Way
High
Find
Low
Stakes
Poor
Gamble
Jesus was loyal to his apostles, with full knowledge of their cowardice. He was loyal to the poor, accepting the criticism of the Pharisees, so the destitute would never feel deserted. He was loyal to his father, accomplishing his will even unto death.
Mother Angelica
Death
Knowledge
Father
Will
Criticism
Cowardice
Destitute
Would
Never
He
Feel
Unto
Accepting
His
Accomplishing
Poor
Apostles
Full
Loyal
Even
Deserted
Jesus
No man can see God in this life and live because His glory would annihilate our poor, weak human nature.
Mother Angelica
Life
God
Nature
Man
Human Nature
Live
Our
Weak
Would
See
Annihilate
Because
Glory
His
Human
Poor
My mother raised me with God. We were poor financially, but we were rich spiritually.
Mr. T
God
Me
Mother
Rich
Financially
Spiritually
Were
Poor
Raised
The Grameen clinics prove that a medical system 'for the poor' can be almost entirely self-supporting, and we hope we can make it fully self sufficient so we can expand it across Bangladesh.
Muhammad Yunus
Hope
System
Entirely
Self
Almost
Make
Prove
Clinics
Self-Sufficient
Expand
Bangladesh
Poor
Across
Fully
Medical
Sufficient
Long live Grameen Bank. Let the power of poor women prevail.
Muhammad Yunus
Prevail
Women
Long
Power
Live
Bank
Poor
Health care can be made more affordable for the poor without requiring major new scientific developments, just the smart application of current technologies. We have seen a $25 incubator and diagnostic instruments that are built tough, cheap, and reusable for the developing world.
Muhammad Yunus
Health
World
Smart
Care
Made
Seen
Tough
Incubator
More
Cheap
Developing
Developing World
Developments
New
Major
Instruments
Health Care
Without
Scientific
Built
Affordable
Current
Just
Poor
Requiring
Application
Technologies
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.
Muhammad Yunus
People
Money
Circumstances
Would
No Idea
Something
Given
Had
Idea
Like
Involved
Get
Bangladesh
Which
Lending
Poor
Poor People
Working
Ever
I went to the bank and proposed that they lend money to the poor people. The bankers almost fell over.
Muhammad Yunus
People
Money
Proposed
Almost
Over
Fell
Bank
Bankers
Lend
Poor
Poor People
If the basic structure of Grameen is changed, the worry is that the poor women who are the rightful owners of the bank will be disenfranchised.
Muhammad Yunus
Women
Will
Changed
Worry
Rightful
Structure
Disenfranchised
Owners
Bank
Poor
Who
Basic
Grameen Bank was formed as an institution owned by its borrower members, who are poor women. Through its unique decision-making process, Grameen Bank has given millions of women the means to emerge from the shadows in a male-dominated society and to make something of themselves.
Muhammad Yunus
Women
Society
Members
Emerge
Shadows
Borrower
Something
Given
Through
Institution
Make
Owned
Bank
Process
Formed
Decision-Making
Decision-Making Process
Poor
Themselves
Means
Who
Unique
Millions
Although we have enough healthcare support, often it doesn't reach the poor and needy. In this scenario, technology is the best solution.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
Best
Technology
Needy
Enough
Solution
Scenario
Support
Reach
Although
Healthcare
Often
Poor
Any mechanism that will ensure benefits to consumer, any mechanism that will ensure that we do not waste food grains, any mechanism that helps the poorest of the poor is a welcome step.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
Food
Welcome
Benefits
Will
Ensure
Consumer
Step
Any
Grains
Poor
Poorest
Mechanism
Helps
Waste
It's well proved economics that if a country which is rich and a country that is poor come together in global trade, sooner or later the standard of living of the poor country will go up towards that of the rich country.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
Together
Will
Country
Economics
Rich
Living
Later
Sooner
Towards
Sooner Or Later
Come
Global
Well
Trade
Proved
Go
Up
Which
Poor
Standard
I wish that positions of power dependent on education were as open to abused children, poor children, working-class children as they are to the children of the rich and successful. I really wish that were true.
Naomi Alderman
Education
Power
Wish
Rich
Positions
Open
True
Abuse
Were
Dependent
Children
Poor
Really
Successful
Working-Class
Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
Naomi Klein
Rich
Investors
Because
Africa
Poor
Creditors
My entire childhood was steeped in poverty. For me, poverty, in a way, was the first inspiration of my life, a commitment to do something for the poor.
Narendra Modi
Life
Me
Commitment
My Life
Poverty
First
Way
Entire
Something
Inspiration
Childhood
Poor
I grew up in the projects in Queens, and we were really poor.
Nargis Fakhri
Projects
Were
Queens
Up
Grew
Poor
Really
It was the '70s when mediocrity came in Hindi films. That's when the actor called Rajesh Khanna joined the industry. For all his success, I think Mr. Khanna was a very limited actor. In fact, he was a poor actor.
Naseeruddin Shah
Success
Think
Mediocrity
Films
Fact
Joined
He
Industry
Hindi
Limited
Came
His
Very
In Fact
Poor
Actor
Before I left Russia in 1999, I was living in a very poor factory town with my family and friends, and nothing was ever going to change.
Natalia Vodianova
Family
Change
Before
Nothing
Living
Russia
Factory
Town
Left
Friends
Very
Family And Friends
Going
Poor
Ever
I overheard things in the Woolworths when I was a child, people saying, 'Oh, poor, little thing,' as if they had some understanding that I was being born biracial into a world that was still very difficult for interracial marriages and biracial children.
Natasha Trethewey
Saying
People
World
Understanding
Difficult
Marriages
Some
Born
Had
Overheard
Still
Very
Child
Oh
Being
Children
Little
Poor
Little Thing
Thing
Things
I had a Ford F-250. It was a big ol' farm truck, but it wasn't a rig. That's about the biggest I've ever driven. That's what I drove back and forth to high school. I was a poor guy, and it was a truck that my uncle owned and let me drive because I had no money.
Nathan Fillion
Me
Money
School
Uncle
Drive
Big
Farm
Back
High
High School
About
Guy
Driven
Had
Truck
Drove
Ford
Because
Owned
Biggest
Poor
Forth
Ever
Rig
I grew up poor in India, and there were days when we struggled to find food and other basic necessities. Our mother worked odds and ends jobs to keep the family together and educate us.
Naveen Jain
Food
Family
Together
Mother
Odds
Other
Our
Jobs
India
Find
Struggled
Days
Educate
Were
Up
Ends
Grew
Poor
Us
Worked
Keep
Basic
Necessities
I get maximum satisfaction in seeing the happiness of poor people.
Naveen Patnaik
Happiness
People
Seeing
Get
Maximum
Poor
Poor People
Satisfaction
The Union government can do a lot more for poor states like Orissa.
Naveen Patnaik
Government
States
More
Like
Lot
Poor
Union
I suppose we all loved those kind of sci-fi movies where terrible things came out of swamps and came to Mars. And there's usually some poor girl. All the guys are trying to desperately handle levers and saying, go to something or other.
Neil Innes
Saying
Girl
Other
Desperately
Those
Out
Kind
Mars
Some
Something
Guys
Suppose
Terrible
Sci-Fi
Came
Go
Handle
Trying
Where
Loved
Movies
Poor
Things
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