Orville Wright Quotes
If we worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true really is true, then there would be little hope for advance.
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Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
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And then the conditions of safety - or lack of safety - for teachers in public schools, and the disparity between public schools and private schools is shameful.
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My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.
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I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American.
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
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The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
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Our planet's lands and oceans are already stretched to meet the demands of 7 billion people. The human population continues to grow. The search for sustainable solutions is an economic and a moral imperative if we are to create the future we want.
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It's no easy task to either make money online as a publisher or to advertise your product in a world where attention is so fleeting and divided.
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I wasn't a ladies' man.
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For everybody that does something bad there's gotta be someone that does something good.
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My real dream is that everybody will see their self-interest tied up with someone else, whether or not they see them, and see that as an opportunity for growing closer together as a culture and as a world.
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I just don't think men fancy me.
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If you look at any normal organization, the CEO is the person with the highest E.Q. The person with the highest IQ is often in the back room running the financials or the operations. That's topsy turvy.
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We made more money feeding molasses, urea, and corn cobs to cattle than we ever did feeding dent corn.
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It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
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I think in the bullpen you can tell during your warmups, if you have a good feel for it. But anything can happen once you get into a game. Sometimes you just wind up throwing it better than ever before one day without knowing why.
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Usually, when inspiration strikes late, the light of day reveals that I haven't gotten an idea for a book so much as a psychiatric case study.
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If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.
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Facebook has focused on the conversation, but not really on absorbing the Web into its walled garden.
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My work has been marginalized as far as the jazz-business complex is concerned, or the contemporary-music complex.
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In terms of my own experience, my dad is first-generation, so his parents were from China, and my mom was born and raised in southern Illinois, and she was involved in the arts. My dad's a doctor.
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Being a role model is about being true to myself.
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Grief is Newark. It's there. Can't avoid it. The idea is to hold your nose, hope the traffic's not too bad and get on to Manhattan as quickly as possible.
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If we worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true really is true, then there would be little hope for advance.
