Education needs to be rethought. Education does not just happen in college, but it also happens in developing skills which will enable people to contribute to our society as a whole. ~Peter Thiel
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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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Everyone agrees in theory that we can't judge a new idea or point of view unless we enter into it and try it out, but the practice itself is rare. ~Peter Elbow
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Be happy while you are living, for you are a long time dead. ~Scottish Proverb
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Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one. ~Chinese Proverb
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Lend your money and lose your friend. ~English Proverb
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You are only as old as you feel. ~English Proverb
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Beware of a man of one book. ~English Proverb
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Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet. ~Vietnamese Proverb
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Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money. ~Native American Proverb
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In today's world, it is shortsighted to think that infectious diseases cannot cross borders. By allowing developing countries access to generic drugs, we not only help improve health in those nations, we also help ourselves control these debilitating and often deadly diseases. ~Ron Wyden
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The way to plan the family is natural family planning not contraception. In destroying the power of giving life, through contraception, a husband or wife is doing something to self, and so it destroys the gift of life in him or her ~Mother Teresa
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I knew I wanted to be an actor when I was very young. I guess I was about 6 years old at the time, and I was fascinated by television. I started having waking fantasies where I was in a movie and there were crane shots of me during a scene. ~Nicolas Cage
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What the Court really has refused to recognize is the fundamental interest all individuals have in controlling the nature of their intimate associations. ~Harry A. Blackmun
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I am kind of a grinder. I am a Cinderella, an underdog story who fights. ~Zach Johnson
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He who wishes to talk well must first think well. ~Proverb
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The fox has a hundred proverbs; ninety-nine are about poultry. ~Osmanli Proverb
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He that will have his son have respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son. ~John Locke
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The corporation is an out-of-control Frankenstein. ~Jerry Brown
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The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet. ~Zen Proverb
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Africa is our center of gravity, our cultural and spiritual mother and father, our beating heart, no matter where we live on the face of this earth. ~John Henrik Clarke
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Our content carries the Forbes name, and our whole mantra is to put authoritative journalism at the center of the social media experience. ~Michael Perlis
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As tough as things have been, I am convinced you are tougher. I've seen your passion and I've seen your service. I've seen you engage and I've seen you turn out in record numbers. I've heard your voices amplified by creativity and a digital fluency that those of us in older generations can barely comprehend. I've seen a generation eager, impatient even, to step into the rushing waters of history and change its course. ~Barack Obama
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I think that what went wrong with religion is the same thing that went wrong with politics. Is that it became too money based and too controlling. It is just a weakness that we human beings have for control, we want one thing and then we want more and then we want more. ~Dave Davies
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A cat bitten once by a snake dreads even rope. ~Arab Proverb
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