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Poverty has an expiration date. If we give people the right skills and the right tools, we can end it – in our lifetime.

— Nelly Cheboi

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The dreams you have may seem so big now, but you have no idea how small they are compared to reality.

My hands are so tiny, I cannot help you, but when I grow up, I'm going to show you the world.

I feel so accomplished seeing kids that are 7 years old touch-typing, knowing that I just learned how to touch-type less than five years ago.

My hope is that when the first TechLit kids graduate high school, they're able to get a job online... The world is your oyster when you are educated.

At one point, I was bringing 44 computers, and I paid more for the luggage than I did for the air ticket.

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We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known.

Doris Lessing The Golden Notebook (1962)

It is better to be poor and walk in integrity than to be stupid and speak lies.

Solomon

If a poor person envies a rich person, he is no better than the rich person.

Leo Tolstoy

The poor, by thinking unceasingly of money, reach the point of losing the spiritual advantages of non-possession, thereby sinking as low as the rich.

Emil Cioran The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

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