All eager-lipped I kissed the mouth of Death.
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There is huge potential for this kind of technology in Africa, ... It's new, but it's extremely appropriate because there are no copper-wire phone lines in much of Africa, and half the people there have never touched a phone - and never will. People are already contacting us about getting into the systems that are going up, but the question is the rate to do it so it remains sustainable.
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There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.
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Arnold Bennett says that the horror of marriage lies in its 'dailiness.' All acuteness of relationship is rubbed away by this. The truth is mo...
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Most certification today is pure 'credentialism.' It must begin to reflect our demand for excellence, not our appreciation of parchment.
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The shortage of student loans may require ... divestiture of certain sorts-stereo divestiture, automobile divestiture, three-weeks-at-the-beach divestiture.
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Farmers patience is completely exhausted. They will not accept pre-movement testing unless there is a cull.
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I was putting forward a hypothetical proposition ... and then said about it, it was morally reprehensible to recommend abortion of an entire group of people.
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Our common language is ... English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language.
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You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of unmanufactured tissue of the universe of your life It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.
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The discipline you learn and character you build from setting and achieving a goal can be more valuable than the achievement of the goal itself.
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There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.
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I have a simple life. I mean, you just give me a drum roll, they announce my name, and I come out and sing. In my job I have a contract that says I'm a singer. So I sing.
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Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.
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The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read. Any school that does not accomplish this has failed.
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Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue.
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Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
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Watch out for excessive pressure. The charity that wants your money today will welcome it just as much tomorrow.
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Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
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The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people.
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Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality.
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Confusing the words wish , faith and pray with each other usually just results in a minor grammatical faux pas , but when any of these words, especially hope , is confused with action , the results are much more devastating.
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Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.
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No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.
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You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of un-manufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.
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Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self-praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others.
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The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else.
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Our schools should get five years to get back to where they were in 1963. If they're still bad maybe we should declare educational bankruptcy, give the people their money and let them educate themselves and start their own schools
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A first-rate Organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected.
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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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