Abdu'l-Bahá Quotes
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.
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Is a family just the strict definition of a small and discrete unit, or is it about the larger organic group that inevitably grows up around the smaller one?
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Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet.
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I have very eclectic tastes.
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It's cool having a little bit of money to do your thing.
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Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone.
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When I started Black Girls Code in 2011, there weren't any programs that had a foundation in communities of color to teach our kids about technology.
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I am kind of being a little selective in what I do, so it takes a little bit longer, but it's worth it in the end.
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Discomfort is the way to go if you want to make something you feel is worthwhile.
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I'm sour at times.
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I never really take shortcuts. I was always one of those people who, instead of cutting across someone's yard on the way home from school, I would go to the end of the block and turn.
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I don't know who had it out for me, but somebody did.
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The saddest day of my life was the day I didn't get to play football anymore.
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Obviously, I'm not a trained actress, and right now I'll come out and say I'm glad I'm not.
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Although I'm predominantly known for game-shows, I do prefer to be known as a performer.
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'Gone Girl' is as much about the near impossibility of being a good husband as it is about the anguish of being a good wife.
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The Reformers, therefore, as instruments in the hands of God, in delivering the Church from bondage to prelates, did not make it a tumultuous multitude, in which every man was a law to himself, free to believe, and free to do what he pleased.
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I have so much confidence in the reality of Jesus that I feel no pressure to try to make people act or be a certain way. I'm banking everything on the fact that God actually changes people.
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One feels so despairing on some levels about what's going on in our culture, in regards to things like gender inequality. But there is progress. There is enhanced empathy and respect for others, we are fighting the tide, even though it seems like a tug of war sometimes.
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If human life is in fact ordered by a beneficent being whose knowledge of our real needs and of the way in which they can be satisfied infinitely exceeds our own, we must expect a priori that his operations will often appear to us far from beneficent and far from wise, and that it will be our highest prudence to give him our confidence in spite of this.
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The development of general ability for independent thinking and judgment should always be placed foremost, not the acquisition of special knowledge.
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Knowledge is the cause of human progress.
