James Wolfensohn Quotes
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The notion of the world as a village is becoming a reality.
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I was deeply concerned then, and have become more concerned since, that unless we can deal with the questions of development and the questions of poverty, there's no way that we're going to have a peaceful world for our children.
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The poor people of the world tend to be the places that al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups can recruit.
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Most people recognize that to create jobs is really the essential element in their drive against poverty.
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So the first thing you need to do about conflict is to prevent it, and the best way of preventing it is by dealing with the question of poverty.
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You can't compete globally unless you have appropriate communication skills.
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I have travelled in the country enough to know that the concerns of villages in Rajasthan will be very different from the issues in the villages of Tamil Nadu. Anybody who makes a general remark about India probably doesn't know India.
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As you look at the flow of Muslim fundamentalism, or fundamentalism in various areas and various religions, they all play on the people who have very little.