Elizabeth Goudge Quotes
The years stretched before her, a long and dusty way, yet if she could walk humbly along it she might find that life, unfolding slowly, keeps its best secrets till the end.
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The main thing I want to do is make people feel more connected and more active.
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The strongest institution in the hands of the European Union is the euro.
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The government in Turkey, which represents the powerful, traditionalist mass, is very comfortable creating policies tailored only for their supporters.
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In my role as a spokesperson for Amnesty International U.S.A. and as a supporter of various charitable causes including Unlock Iran, a campaign to release prisoners of conscience in Iran, I have never been faced with the threat of intimidation or arrest.
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It's better to waste money, than it is to waste time. You can always get more money.
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While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn't the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.
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No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year in sales.
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Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.
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Lupe Fiasco is kinda cool. I like him a lot.
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When boasting ends, there dignity begins.
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Apartheid is inherently a practice of violence.
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The game has basically not changed since I ended my career.
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The goal, as Compaq has stated all along in its history, is to support an open industry standard.
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I think people think of Oregon as such a granola, hippie kind of a place.
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The biggest thing for me with charity is awareness. Obviously as an athlete, I have an opportunity to make people more aware. The average person doesn't have that opportunity, so the best way is to spare some money, clothing, food - something. Most of us have a little excess of something that we can give.
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If you believe - which I do - that acting is a bit like advocacy for your character, then of course I want to find the positive points.
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What motivated me to dedicate myself to public service for nearly two-thirds of my life was the chance to produce results for those people who entrusted me to be their voice and their champion.
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Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.
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My illness is excruciating and difficult to cope with. It takes over your entire life and causes more suffering than I can describe.
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One's life story cannot be told with complete veracity. A true autobiography would have to be written in states of mind, emotions, heartbeats, smiles and tears; not in months and years, or physical events. Life is marked off on the soul by feelings, not by dates.
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Never praise a sister to a sister, in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears, and so preparing the way for you later on. Sisters are women first, and sisters afterwards; and you will find that you do yourself harm.
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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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Pope John Paul II not only visited Nigeria twice but stood by the country in its fight against dictatorship and injustice.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
The years stretched before her, a long and dusty way, yet if she could walk humbly along it she might find that life, unfolding slowly, keeps its best secrets till the end.
