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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Cussing ain't for everybody.
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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 can tell you about the education programs, because that's where I lived and worked.
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An empowered organization is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organizational success.
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During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country, and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher.
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I learn about history and religion and politics. It keeps me tuned in. If I hear something on the news, I'm like, 'Oh my God, this is what somebody is talking about in the play that I'm about to do in two hours.' The act itself - of rehearsing, failing, and still persisting and trying to create - keeps me curious, keeps me searching.
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Credentialing, not education, has become the primary business of North American universities.
