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• Why do some people stop growing at age 30, just going from work to the couch and television, when others stay vibrant, curious, almost childlike into their nineties?

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  People, Age, Television

  Jacqueline Novogratz (2012). “The Blue Sweater : Bridging The Gap Between Rich And Poor In An Intercnnected World”, p.103, HarperCollins Publishers

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• In today's world, the elites are growing even more comfortable with one another across national lines, yet at the same time, less comfortable with low-income people who share their nationality. How we create those bonds of community that are truly global as well as national is one of our generation's great challenges.

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  Our Generation, People, Community

  Jacqueline Novogratz (2012). “The Blue Sweater : Bridging The Gap Between Rich And Poor In An Intercnnected World”, p.108, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Things are always harder than you think they're going to be.

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  Thinking, Thought Provoking, Harder

  "Patient capitalism". TEDGlobal Talk, www.ted.com. June 2007.

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• We need moral leadership and courage in our world.

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  Our World, Moral Leadership, Thought Provoking

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• You should focus on being more interested than interesting.

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  Interesting, Focus, Should

  Jacqueline Novogratz (2012). “The Blue Sweater : Bridging The Gap Between Rich And Poor In An Intercnnected World”, p.105, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Each of us can work to change a small portion of events. And it's in the total of all those acts that the history of this generation will be written.

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  Thought Provoking, Events, This Generation

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• Four billion people on Earth make less than four dollars a day.

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  People, Thought Provoking, Dollars

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• Failure can be an incredibly motivating force.

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  Motivation, Inspiration, Thought Provoking

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• Human beings tend not to spend money on health preventionally. We tend to spend it on top treatment.

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  Treatment, Humans, Human Beings

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• What is the cost of not daring? What is the cost of not trying?

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  Thought Provoking, Trying, Cost

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• Poverty is not only about income levels, but for lack of freedom that comes from physical insecurity

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  Insecurity, Income, Levels

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• I'm relentless in that I deeply believe in people.

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  Believe, People, Relentless

  "The Marriage of Love & Power: Conversation w/ Jacqueline Novogratz of Acumen Fund". Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. December 1, 2013.

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• The time for change is now.

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  Thought Provoking, Time For A Change, Provoking

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• As a young woman, I dreamed of changing the world. In my twenties, I went to Africa to try and save the continent, only to learn that Africans neither wanted nor needed saving. Indeed, when I was there, I saw some of the worst that good intentions, traditional charity, and aid can produce.

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  Trying, Twenties, World

  Jacqueline Novogratz (2012). “The Blue Sweater : Bridging The Gap Between Rich And Poor In An Intercnnected World”, p.4, HarperCollins Publishers

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• What we really yearn for as human beings is to be visible.

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  Thought Provoking, Humans, Visible

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• 1.5 billion people lack proper access to electricity. Many buy kerosene, which can cost 30 percent of their income. It sends millions of metric tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every year. And often the lamp will fall over and catch the house on fire. So mothers hate it, but it's their only option.

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  Mother, Hate, Fall

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Africa can stun you in an instant. It can throw floods and drought and disease at you, sometimes all at the same time. In the next moment, it will tease you with its magnificent beauty, so even if you don't forget, you can find a way to forgive. Ultimately, it keeps you coming back for more.

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  Forgiving, Disease, Way

  Jacqueline Novogratz (2012). “The Blue Sweater : Bridging The Gap Between Rich And Poor In An Intercnnected World”, p.95, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Freedom is what beauty feels like when it can most express itself.

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  Feels

  "What Are You Doing When You Feel Most Beautiful?" by Jacqueline Novogratz, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 16, 2012.

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• The poor also are willing to make, and do make, smart decisions, if you give them that opportunity.

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  Smart, Opportunity, Giving

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• Poverty is too complex to be answered with a one-size-fits-all approach, and if there is any place that illustrates that complexity, as well as a better way forward, it is Rwanda.

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  Way Forward, Poverty, Size

  Jacqueline Novogratz (2012). “The Blue Sweater : Bridging The Gap Between Rich And Poor In An Intercnnected World”, p.158, HarperCollins Publishers

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• We have to remember that the girls and the women are most isolated and violated and victimized and made invisible in those very societies where our men and our boys feel disempowered, unable to provide.

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  Girl, Boys, Men

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• I finally understood: In order to contribute to Africa, I would have to know myself better and be clearer about my goals. I would have to be ready to take Africa on its own terms, not mine, and to learn my limits and present myself not as a do-gooder with a big heart, but as someone with something to give and gain by being there. Compassion wasn't enough

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  Heart, Compassion, Order

  Jacqueline Novogratz (2012). “The Blue Sweater : Bridging The Gap Between Rich And Poor In An Intercnnected World”, p.23, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Philanthropy is no longer about writing a check for $10,000 to the opera.

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  Writing, Opera, Philanthropy

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• I have also been touched by the dark side of power and leadership.

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  Dark, Thought Provoking, Sides

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• When people gain income, they gain choice, and that is fundamental to dignity.

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  People, Thought Provoking, Choices

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