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The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.

Muhammad Yunus

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Muhammad Yunus
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: June 28
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Truly affordable but high-quality health care tools and services are the only means by which quality health care can be provided to all.
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But we have created a society that does not allow opportunities for those people to take care of themselves because we have denied them those opportunities.
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If you go out into the real world, you cannot miss seeing that the poor are poor not because they are untrained or illiterate but because they cannot retain the returns of their labor. They have no control over capital, and it is the ability to control capital that gives people the power to rise out of poverty.
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I went to the bank and proposed that they lend money to the poor people. The bankers almost fell over.
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