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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Christianity is sustained by the knowledge that the object of man's life on earth is his development as an eternal being. Therefore, none of his expressions of life can be an end in itself, but must serve a higher purpose than the earthly life and happiness of the individual - or even than that of the race.
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We absolutely must leave room for doubt or there is no progress and there is no learning. There is no learning without having to pose a question. And a question requires doubt. People search for certainty. But there is no certainty. People are terrified — how can you live and not know? It is not odd at all. You only think you know, as a matter of fact. And most of your actions are based on incomplete knowledge and you really don’t know what it is all about, or what the purpose of the world is, or know a great deal of other things. It is possible to live and not know.
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Do you know that books smell like nutmeg or some spice from a foreign land? I loved to smell them when I was a boy. Lord, there were a lot of lovely books once, before we let them go.
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The first book advance I got was paid out in thirds. And over time, as I've had different deals, the advances get chopped up into ever-smaller parcels.
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Have you noticed that life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in newspapers?
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Knowledge is the cause of human progress.
