Jane Jacobs Quotes
Credentialing, not education, has become the primary business of North American universities.
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I have 179 children that I take care of full-time: close to 40 in Uganda and the rest in Sudan.
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
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Every time you load a webpage is a HTTP request. That's a lot of HTTP requests. If you are earning bitcoin on every HTTP request, that could be a lot of earned bitcoins.
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You never know when your future wife might be in the stands.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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There's a lot of bad things going on but I didn't do nothing.
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I'm not so sure I believe in dopplegangers. I just prefer to be Dane DeHaan.
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I think that's one of the most unique and potentially powerful things about reddit - people come for the news, and stay for the community.
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I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
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I love doing girly stuff with my mum or with Sophia. I took Sophia and a couple of her friends to the Hello Kitty spa. They had chocolate facials and Hello Kitty mani-pedis. I put it on my Twitter and got lots of abuse for it, but I think it's just a nice girly thing.
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
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I have reservations about everything I do.
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I never, by any regard, ever denied any part of my family roots.
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When I was coming up as a kid, there were programs that kept me out of trouble and on the straight and narrow in South Central Los Angeles, and I always felt that when I got to a stage where I could provide similar opportunities to kids then I would do that.
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This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.
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We can no longer tolerate losing one more innocent child or putting one more firefighter at risk in a fire that could have been prevented at the cost of pennies by making a couple simple changes to the construction of a cigarette.
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'The Fifth Gospel' is set entirely inside the Vatican and told from the perspective of a Catholic priest. I'm not Catholic myself, yet authenticity and factual accuracy are very important to me, so the novel required an enormous amount of research.
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I don't relate to what's left of the music business. There doesn't seem to be any point to it anymore. The business that I grew up in and loved, we made records a different way - there were record companies, there were stores where you could buy albums.
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We have to be tough. It's time we're going to be a little bit tough, folks. We're taken advantage by every nation in the world, virtually. It's not going to happen any more.
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As long as we dare to dream and don't get in the way of ourselves, anything is possible - there's truly no end to where our dreams can take us.
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My all-time favourite political promise - more a boast than a promise, really - came from former Montreal mayor Jean Drapeau, who said in the lead-up to the 1976 Olympics, 'The Olympics can no more lose money than a man can have a baby.'
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[Clover] secretly hitched a ride with a nice German couple and their new baby...Clover appeared to the baby, so as to be a delightful, soothing surprise. Well, the child did like Clover. In fact, she held him and cooed. When the parents turned around to look at her and saw their child holding a furry, living creature, they needlessly panicked.
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Credentialing, not education, has become the primary business of North American universities.
