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Once poverty is gone, we'll need to build museums to display its horrors to future generations. They'll wonder why poverty continued so long in human society - how a few people could live in luxury while billions dwelt in misery, deprivation and despair.


Muhammad Yunus

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MUHAMMAD ALI I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As...
MUHAMMAD IQBAL Since love first made the breast an instrument Of fierce lamenting, by its flame my heart Was molten...
MUHAMMAD IQBAL God is not a dead equation!
MUHAMMAD IQBAL Though the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we ...
MUHAMMAD IQBAL But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile:...
MUHAMMAD IQBAL Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego's evolution.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually ...
MUHAMMAD IQBAL The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions... Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is divers...
MUHAMMAD IQBAL But only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is the long nights of ...
MUHAMMAD IQBAL Politics is the profession of those who have neither trade nor art.
MUHAMMAD HIJAZI We have people who are based in their emotions and so they're hurt. It doesn't hurt me, a fool doesn...
AGIN MUHAMMAD Always could get somebody's goat if you just talk about his mama, and that's basically what you have...
AGIN MUHAMMAD Protesting is really similar to war. If you get the best lick in this time, then you've got to get y...
AGIN MUHAMMAD I understand the reactions, but it's not for me to reduce myself to that level.
AGIN MUHAMMAD Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friend...
MUHAMMAD ALI Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. Bu...
MUHAMMAD ALI Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But...
MUHAMMAD ALI Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets ...
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