Wendy Kopp Quotes
Every time a child's promise is cut short by their legal status, our country wastes precious resources and loses talent we need.
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Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
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I think India has several advantages in the knowledge sector, in the software sector.
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As an organization, Esri is strong, and we're continuing to grow. We're dedicated to this. And we're excited to see what you can accomplish and to watch your work evolve.
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Obviously, we're focused on the Winter Classic.
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Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus.
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All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny.
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I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.
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Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.
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For people who think of chicken as the meat choice of those-who-don't-really-like-meat, brining a bird will be a revelation.
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Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.
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I'm also politically independent so I'm not a fan of either the Democrats in Congress or the Republicans in Congress.
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A Commander-in-Chief needs to do two things. One - tell us who the enemy is. And two - say we are fighting to win.
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The Flash could do everything twice as fast. Except you never saw him think twice as fast or speak twice as fast. Could he do math faster than the other superheroes? Could he compute the tip for the bill twice as fast?
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As leaders, we become whole when we see that our focused, singular commitment to making the numbers and the metrics cannot be effective on its own, but only when it is part of the whole picture - only when we see that it takes more than metrics to make up the whole.
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America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem. Throughout my travels in the Muslim world, I have met, talked to, even eaten with people who in America would have been considered 'white,' but the 'white' attitude had been removed from their minds by the religion of Islam.
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I'm from Georgia, and everybody gathers around food in the South.
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You get rid of the fear of death by understanding that it is an integral fact of our existence. You do that through will and reason.
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Harry Dresden: The building was on fire, and it wasn't my fault.
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I set out to destroy socialism because I felt it was at odds with the character of the people. We were the first country in the world to roll back the frontiers of socialism, then roll forward the frontiers of freedom. We reclaimed our heritage; we are renewing it and carrying it forward.
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Rise! ye gallant youth of Britain,Gather to your country's call,On your hearts her name is written,Rise to help her, one and all!
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In the torments of the intellect, there is a certain bearing which is to be sought in vain among those of the heart. Skepticism is the elegance of anxiety.
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Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down within incredible swiftness.
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Every time a child's promise is cut short by their legal status, our country wastes precious resources and loses talent we need.
