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		The people who founded America, who fought for its freedom, did not look to anyone else to get them out of their troubles. They took matters into their own hands and answered only to God and their peers. In today's world, sacrifice and hardship are not in the everyday language, and instant gratification is foremost.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ann Rinaldi
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		You look in excellent health to me, Potter, so you will excuse me if I don't let you off homework today. I assure you that if you do die, you need not hand it in.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Joanne Rowling
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		This is a good day for the world's children. Children who today have no right to their own childhood, to education, to personal inviolability, have with these two representatives, these prize winners, got a voice both for the right to education - particularly for girls - and against unfair and exploitative child labor.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Angela Merkel
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The Olympic stadium may have been built only in the early 1970s but it was clear for a long time it had no future. For many reasons it is not good enough for modern football and today's fans.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Franz Beckenbauer
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		We still have to struggle against the impact of racism, but it doesn't happen in the same way. I think it is much more complicated today than it ever was.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Angela Davis
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Some primal termite knocked on wood And tasted it, and found it good! And that is why your Cousin May Fell through the parlor floor today.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ogden Nash
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		I would die to record in space. That would be the coolest. If I got the option of, going into outer space and hanging out there for a day, and then coming back home and dying the next day, or just waiting around to see if there's any opportunity for the technology to develop so that I might experience outer space sometime in the future, I would probably take the ride today and die tomorrow. I'd be happy just hanging out between the moon and the Earth, getting a view.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ariel Pink
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Today, as we wish each other a Happy New Year, let us determine to be more sincere, compassionate, warm-hearted human beings, trying to make our world a more equal place. That way we'll actually make it a happy year.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Dalai Lama
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Think about what people are doing on Facebook today. They're keeping up with their friends and family, but they're also building an image and identity for themselves, which in a sense is their brand. They're connecting with the audience that they want to connect to. It's almost a disadvantage if you're not on it now.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Mark Zuckerberg
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		A lot of young poets today, from what I've heard and experienced, can't get their heads past George W. Bush, and I've heard so many poems about this democracy and this era of politics that I'm kind of bored by it.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Amber Tamblyn
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		When I was 14, my dad came home one day and told us he had cancer. It was looking pretty bad. And I remember him saying how afraid he was that he hadn't gotten to do the things he wanted to do during his life. He had surgery and survived. And he's still alive today, thank God. But it made a big impact on me.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jeffrey Skoll
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Today's world requires a different leadership style - more collaboration and teamwork, including using Web 2.0 technologies. If you had told me I'd be video blogging and blogging, I would have said, 'No way.' And yet our 20-somethings in the company really pushed me to use that more.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				John T. Chambers
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		I treat anger, grief and strife as a sin, so I let all that go and I am no longer living a sinful life. Today, I command my days by confessing that every minute will be blessed and perfect. My confession then has no other choice but to confer blessings upon my life.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Kam Williams
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		No other work has more often been blamed for more heinous crimes by the perpetrators of such crimes. The Bible has been named as the instigating or justifying factor for many individual and mass crimes, ranging from the religious wars, inquisitions, witch burnings, and pogroms of earlier eras to systematic child abuse and ritual murders today.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Nadine Strossen
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		It's a sad commentary on where politics is today. If someone disagrees with you, you're either Attila the Hun or a leftist liberal.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				James R. Leininger
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Even if we wanted to imbue an autonomous vehicle with an ethical engine, we don't have the technical capability today to do so.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Karl Iagnemma
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The world is not likely to tire of an amusement which never repeats itself, of a game which today presents features as novel and charms as fresh as those with which it delighted, in the morning of history, the dwellers on the banks of the Ganges and Indus.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Willard Fiske
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		'In Prague, big red posters were put up on which one could read that seven Czechs had been shot today. I said to myself, 'If I had to put up a poster for every seven Poles shot, the forests of Poland would not be sufficient to manufacture the paper.'
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Hans Frank