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" Investing for the poor requires participation from the entire community. "
Bill Gates
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" The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low. "
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" The most interesting biofuel efforts avoid using land that's expensive and has high opportunity costs. They do this by getting onto other types of land, or taking advantage of byproducts that aren't used in the food chain today, or by intercropping. "
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" Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity - the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires. "
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" Oh, I think there are a lot of people who would be buying and selling online today that go up there and they get the information, but then when it comes time to type in their credit card they think twice because they're not sure about how that might get out and what that might mean for them. "
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" Well the protester I think is a very powerful thing. It's basically a mechanism of democracy that, along with capitalism, scientific innovation, those things have built the modern world. And it's wonderful that the new tools have empowered that protestor so that state secrets, bad developments are not hidden anymore. "
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" Headlines, in a way, are what mislead you because bad news is a headline, and gradual improvement is not. "
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