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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Our main source of economy is agriculture. What we should do is to use the oil money that we have today to re-fuel agriculture. And so agriculture will be the backbone of the economy of South Sudan.
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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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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
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Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet.
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Take heed, then, often to come together to give thanks to God, and show forth His praise. For when you assemble frequently in the same place, the powers of Satan are destroyed, and the destruction at which he aims is prevented by the unity of your faith.
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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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Civilization is an enormous improvement on the lack thereof.
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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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The price of progress is trouble, and I must be making a lot of progress.
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Any who may wish to profit himself alone from the knowledge given him, rather than serve others through the knowledge he has gained from learning, is betraying knowledge and rendering it worthless
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The image is one thing and the human being is another...it's very hard to live up to an image.
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Knowledge is the cause of human progress.
