Few industries have the ability to transform society like tech, yet too few companies are asking the questions or working on the problems that would create meaningful social change. ~Mitch Kapor
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It is a shocking trick for a young person to be always lolling upon a sofa. ~Jane Austen
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Mother is a verb, not a noun. ~Proverb
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My hope is that I can somehow raise the level of consciousness about world events. ~Lisa Ling
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A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years. ~Wendell Willkie
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I live for now, not for what happens after I die. ~Liam Gallagher
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The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places, but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater. ~J.R.R. Tolkien
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If we have any hope of finding ways for seven billion people to live well on planet with finite resources, we have to learn to use our resources efficiently. Plastic bags are neither efficient nor environmentally friendly. ~David Suzuki
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A son is a son till he gets him a wife, but a daughter is a daughter the rest of your life. ~Proverb
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Experience this moment to its fullest. ~Zen Proverb
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It is better to practice a little than talk a lot. ~Zen Proverb
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought. ~Zen Proverb
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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength. ~Phil Jackson
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In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few. ~Zen Proverb
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When we were all kids, there was one particular trailer that I think we can all remember. That was the trailer for "Close Encounters of the Third Kind." There was an amazing teaser trailer with all this weird kind of documentary footage. We were like, "What was that! I've got to see that! What the hell was that?" ~Matt Reeves
#quotes #matt-reeves #childhood

The main courtyard was filled with warriors, mermen with fish tails from the waist down and human bodies from the waist up, except their skin was blue, which I'd never known before. Some were tending the wounded. Some were sharpening spears and swords. One passed us, swimming in a hurry. His eyes were bright green, like that stuff they put in glo-sticks, and his teeth were shark teeth. They don't show you stuff like that in "The Little Mermaid. ~Rick Riordan
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The Pawn moves only one square at a time, and that straight forward, except in the act of capturing, when it takes one step diagonally to the right or left file on to the square occupied by the man taken, and continues on that file until it captures another man. ~Howard Staunton
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It is no easy task to lead men. But it is easy enough to drive them. ~Rabindranath Tagore
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He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind. ~Zen Proverb
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Artists are always looking for new things and fresh ground and fresh air. If it feels new to me, there's a chance it'll feel new to the audience and we'll have found something. ~Jerry Seinfeld
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You must neither strive for truth nor seek to lose your illusions. ~Zen Proverb
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If you are attached to anything, you surely will go far astray. ~Zen Proverb
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Our true and genuine wisdom can be summed up as the knowledge of God and the knowledge of ourselves. ~John Calvin
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The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass. ~Zen Proverb
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It was a Republican, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who first protected the Arctic Refuge to balance the oil development at Prudhoe Bay with responsible conservation. ~Robert Dold
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