Eboo Patel Quotes
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The fight for freedom must go on until it is won; until our country is free and happy and peaceful as part of the community of man, we cannot rest.
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Her angel's face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.
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There's nothing called a perfect pick-up line. Men always have to face the risk of rejection.
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Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.
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By 1946, I knew Detroit was the best hockey city in the Original Six.
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Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.
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I never thought I was going to leave the trap. I even told my mother, 'I'm gonna be the trap God.'
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It was in a mist the Tuatha de Danaan, the people of the gods of Dana, or as some called them, the Men of Dea, came through the air and the high air to Ireland.
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I accomplished what I set out to do. I wanted the whole cookie, and I got it. Now I want to spend more time with my children - make sure they don't go through what I did.
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I'm one of the first invention capitalists.
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He that offereth sacrifice of the goods of the poor is as one that sacrificeth the son in the presence of his father.
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To many Americans, whose only knowledge of the North Star State is that it is intensely cold and populated by Swedes and Holsteins, it will come as a surprise to wake up one morning in 2004 and read in the newspaper, 'Half of U.S. Economy Now in Hands of Minnesota'.
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Every Sunday I’d take a 20-minute bus ride to his house in Beverley Hills for a one-hour lesson and be there for four hours ... They had four sons, they didn’t have a daughter and I kind of fitted in as the baby of the family.
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My body and my will are one.
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The truth is that I have lived on an even keel. I don't go down, and I don't go up. I believe in living above the line. Above the line is happiness and love, you know. Below the line is all sadness and destruction and unhappiness. And I don't go down below the line for anything.
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Venture capitalists are professional money managers. We are provided capital to invest as long as we can return it to our investors with a strong return in a reasonable amount of time. A strong return is three times cash on cash. A reasonable amount of time is ten years max.
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To shy away from human extremes and human sensuality makes for bone-dry fiction. A world parched of our sexual releases and our tumultuous daily emotional lives is deeply impoverished. It is not lifelike, at least life as I remember living it.
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Doing something the right way is something I take pride in.
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Growing up in a group home, and with an undiagnosed learning disability to boot, the odds of success were not on my side. But when I joined the high school football team, I learned the value of discipline, focus, persistence, and teamwork - all skills that have proven vital to my career as a C.E.O. and social entrepreneur.
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All my pictures are a kind of revision of my original idea. This is surely very different from the way in which Japanese or Chinese artists work: their themes are pre-ordained, whereas mine are invented at will.
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How would you like to have a father who keeps getting younger looking every year? Do you realize what that can do to a woman?
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Our board is not compensated and not staffed. We've never taken $1 in expenses. We look at this as public service.
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Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better.
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A social entrepreneur is somebody who knows how to make an idea reality.
