Ada Velez Quotes
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We have 200,000 kids a year who drop out of the French school system and have no hope. They become a drag on society.
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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The only people who never fail are those who never try.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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My wife has a horror the children will start talking American if we spend too much time out there.
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose - or, if there are several, at least one of them - is not especially intent on preventing suffering, whether it is indifferent to suffering or actually rejoices in it.
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I'll never live to write all the stories I have in my head.
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I was told having a website would help me. I have yet to figure out why my life story needs to be on the web.
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John wrote with a very deep love for the human race and a concern for its future.
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Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.
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To my deprivation, to my sorrow, sinew was brave. The world would not be if not for my offspring. I am a bard to be praised. The unskilful May he be possessed by the ravens and eagle and bird of wrath.
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And I know, and you know too That a love, like ours Is terrible news But that wont stop me crying No, that wont stop me crying over you
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Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
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Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how. To plant a pine, for example, one need be neither god nor poet; one need only own a shovel. By virtue of this curious loophole in the rules, any clodhopper may say: Let there be a tree-and there will be one.
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Banking technology has made it simple and efficient to invest in good causes.
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I'm very close to my parents and my grandma.
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I found many treasures in the woods over the years: shotgun shells, empty Colt 45 bottles, old railroad spikes, orange and black beetles eating a dead mouse, pebbles that looked just like teeth, old stone walls and cellar holes, a rusted out frying pan, the skull of a cat.
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The more traditional fuel sources we have relied on as a nation - coal, oil, and natural gas - I'm hoping they can allow us the financial springboard to move to the next generation of energy sources: renewables and alternatives.
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People don't come to stadiums only to see results. They come to see a reaction, they want to see we are also human, that we can cry or laugh.
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When you reach 50, what you care about is being honest, being accurate, and being an example.
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I'm interested in themes that endure from generation to generation.
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Loyalty is the pledge of truth to oneself and others.
