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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'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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No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.
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The aim of life is no more to control the mind, but to develop it harmoniously; not to achieve salvation here after, but to make the best use of it here below; and not to realise truth, beauty and good only in contemplation, but also in the actual experience of daily life; social progress depends not upon the ennoblement of the few but on the enrichment of democracy; universal brotherhood can be achieved only when there is an equality of opportunity - of opportunity in the social, political and individual life.
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I'm happy with the coach we have. I think any one of the ones I asked them to consider would've been good.
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I have my loyalty to the team of my youth. Everyone I knew was a Red Sox fan. The team that I grew up with was constantly the underdog but managed to prevail.
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Knowledge is the cause of human progress.
