Colin Cotterill Quotes
So, there it was in a nutshell. Poverty led him to religion, religion to education, education to lust, lust to communism. And Communism had brought him back full circle to poverty.
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It's not enough to train today's workforce. We also have to prepare tomorrow's workforce by guaranteeing every child access to a world-class education.
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Education is the mother of leadership.
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The tension between the essence of spiritual teachings and the harmful fundamentalism that often arises in the name of religion is an issue that has engaged my mind practically as far back as I can remember.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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I am bullish on the global development. I am bullish on billions of people getting out of poverty.
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Over my career, I've reinvented myself numerous times. I covered the Pentagon, the State Department, and the CIA. I wrote about labor wars, trade wars and real wars. I chronicled a nuclear plant meltdown and the defeat of Communism. I co-founded a couple of media businesses.
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My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
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I don't like Communism because it hands out wealth through rationing books.
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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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Women need to be empowered through the strongest tool - education. They don't need to be subservient to anyone, but at the same time, men must change their mindset towards women. If they are more respectful towards them, then things will change at the grassroots level. It will happen slowly, but everyone has to move together.
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I do not belong to any religion. Everything is between God and myself.
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Our education system is not preparing young people for the world they will face.
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I personally believe that our planet would be absolutely fine without religion, and I also feel we are evolving in that direction.
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I'm also working with Mrs. Bush on some education projects in Afghanistan, so I get to see her a great deal.
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Fanaticism and extremism cannot grow on an earth whose soil is embedded in the spirit of tolerance, moderation, and balance. Good governance can eliminate injustice, destitution and poverty.' Remarks at a Organisation of Islamic Cooperation Summit 5 December 2005.
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Truth, in the matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.
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Rose, oh reiner Widerspruch, Lust, Niemandes Schlaf zu sein unter soviel Lidern.
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Making movies was a real weird kind of adult experience. In a way it was like MIT, in that it was a great education. The big lesson is, people are people. They're smart, funny, creative people, but they're people.
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California is a queer place in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific. It is absolutely selfish, very empty, but not false, and at least, not full of false effort.
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You don't get there the easy way. If you feel sorry for yourself, and you let yourself go down, you will drown.
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A revolution will only be achieved when the ordinary people of the world, us, the working class, get up off our knees and take back what is rightfully ours.
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Philadelphia reflected the national turmoil over race and the Vietnam War, often exploding on my watch.
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Being a leader doesn't mean you created something or you did something great in the past or some other person has given you any kind of authority.
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So, there it was in a nutshell. Poverty led him to religion, religion to education, education to lust, lust to communism. And Communism had brought him back full circle to poverty.
