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Quotes by Muhammad Yunus
- I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in which I was working in Bangladesh.
- I said peace is sometimes narrowly interpreted it's the absence of conflict between nations or something. But peace is more inherent, more basic to human life, human beings, what we feel about each other, what we feel about life around us and what we see in our future.
- I went to the bank and proposed that they lend money to the poor people. The bankers almost fell over.
- I'm sure everything has a bearing on what I'm doing. My family is a lower-middle-class family, there's lots of children, seven brothers, two sisters grew up together, fighting with each other, went to school. My mother went to school up to 4th grade. My father went to school up to 8th grade. So that's about the education level we had in the family.
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