America's great newspapers have staffs that range from 50 percent to 70 percent of what they were just a few years ago. ~Eric Alterman
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I hope you will judge yourselves not on your professional accomplishments alone, but also on how well you have addressed the world's deepest inequities... on how well you treated people a world away who have nothing in common with you but your humanity. ~Bill Gates
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I want you to really be able to grasp the wonder of it, the marvel of it, the size of it and really be able to get a good conception of its magnificence and it tremendous colossal gigantic stupendous size and beauty and splendour! ~David Berg
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Do not do what you will have to find an excuse for. ~Proverb
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Ideas for gadgets for the disabled were coming into my head so fast they seemed to be arriving from somewhere outside of me, beamed down by an unremitting force. I had little control over them, or their flow. I would wake up in the middle of the night. A blinding flash of an idea would rouse me from my bed and I'd rush down to my workshop to have a go at it before the inspiration dimmed. ~Trevor Baylis
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A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom. ~Chinese Proverb
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We get stuck in old thought and behavior patterns that may have been effective when we were twelve months or twelve years old, but now only serve to hold us back. And, while those around us may have no problem correcting our minor flaws, they let the big ones slide, because it would mean attacking who we are. ~Neil Strauss
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The rich would have to eat money if the poor did not provide food. ~Russian Proverb
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No man is a good doctor who has never been sick himself. ~Chinese Proverb
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He who is not ashamed does whatever he likes. ~Arabic Proverb
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The enmity of the wise, rather than the friendship of the fool. ~Arabic Proverb
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week. ~Joseph Addison
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Man is the slave of beneficence. ~Arabic Proverb
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Advice given in the midst of a crowd, is loathsome. ~Arabic Proverb
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Death pays all debts. ~English Proverb
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I started off with a company, InfoSpace, with my own funding. The company was listed among the most successful companies and I went on to start Intelius and Moon Express. Now, I focus my time on using the skills of an entrepreneur to solve many of the grand challenges facing us in the areas of education, healthcare, clean water and energy. ~Naveen Jain
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We must bear the medicine on account of its usefulness. ~Arabic Proverb
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Listen to the sound of the river and you will get a trout. ~Irish Proverb
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The fire of reeds is of rapid extinction. ~Arabic Proverb
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What the daughter does, the mother did. ~Jewish Proverb
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Tear off the curtain of doubt by questions. ~Arabic Proverb
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The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out. ~Chinese Proverb
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A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. ~Greek Proverb
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You well never plow a field by turning it over in your mind. ~Irish Proverb
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Be brothers, and keep between you the accounts of merchants. ~Arabic Proverb
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