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Muhammad Yunus, Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty Quotes: I learned that things are never as complicated as we imagine them to be. It is only our arrogance which seeks to find complicated answers to simple problems.
         

I learned that things are never as complicated as we imagine them to be. It is only our arrogance which seeks to find complicated answers to simple problems.


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