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The Olympics are great. For two weeks we become absolutely fascinated in these people we've never heard of before and will never think of again.

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Jeffrey Sachs

In the early 1990s, when a lot of the developing world opened up to international capital flows. . . they ended up in very good long-term projects, but projects that weren't going to pay off for five or 10 or 20 years.

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Let the future say of our generation that we sent forth mighty currents of hope and that we worked together to heal the world.

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The key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of development. The ladder of development hovers overhead, and the poorest of the poor are stuck beneath it. They lack the minimum amount of capital necessary to get a foothold, and therefore need a boost up to the first rung.

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We need to defend the interests of those whom we've never met and never will.

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Our challenge, our generation's unique challenge, is learning to live peacefully and sustainably in an extraordinarily crowded world. Our planet is crowded to an unprecendented degree. It is bursting at the seams. It's bursting at the seams in human terms, in economic terms, and in ecological terms

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At the most basic level, the key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of development.

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