"When God contemplates some great work, He begins it by the hand of some poor, weak, human creature, to whom He afterwards gives aid."
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"Such as are in immediate fear of a losing their estates, of banishment, or of slavery, live in perpetual anguish, and lose all appetite and repose; whereas such as are actually poor, slaves, or exiles, ofttimes live as merrily as other folk."
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"Long live Grameen Bank. Let the power of poor women prevail."
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"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."
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"I'm on the faculty. I teach. And it's not easy for a poor person to enter the campus to track down the professor in the campus in a Bangladesh situation. They all will be stopped at the gate. You have no business in the university!"
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"In the poor we meet Jesus in his most distressing disguises."
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"Anybody who helps the poor is delighted."
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"If there are poor on the moon, we will go there too."
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"Anybody who helps the poor is delighted. So naturally, they (critics) are not very happy with us."
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"We didn't Make this World we're just the Poor Fools who are living in it."
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"You must be poor. why? cuz ur not making any cents!"
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"Do I resent rich people? No. The best or worst I can do is notice them. I agree with the great Socialist writer George Orwell, who felt that rich people were poor people with money."
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