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A quality education has the power to transform societies in a single generation, provide children with the protection they need from the hazards of poverty, labor exploitation and disease, and given them the knowledge, skills, and confidence to reach their full potential. - Author object (155)
If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough. - Author object (155)
And the beauty of a woman, with passing years only grows! - Author object (155)
As a matter of fact, I rather feel like expressing myself now. - Author object (155)
I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipstick. I believe in pink. I believe happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and... I believe in miracles. - Author object (155)
On the one hand maybe I’ve remained infantile, while on the other I matured quickly, because at a young age I was very aware of suffering and fear. - Author object (155)
Animals are my friends...and I don't eat my friends. - Author object (95)
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. - Author object (95)
I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend ... if you have one." <em>— George Bernard Shaw, playwright (to Winston Churchill)</em> "Cannot possibly attend first night; will attend second, if there is one." <em>— Churchill's response</em> - Author object (95)
You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul. - Author object (95)
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. - Author object (95)
There is no love sincerer than the love of food. - Author object (95)
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them. - Author object (95)
After all, the wrong road always leads somewhere. - Author object (95)
All great truths begin as blasphemies. - Author object (95)
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation. - Author object (95)
A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most. - Author object (95)
I’m an atheist and I thank God for it. - Author object (95)
The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me. - Author object (95)
Whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so sure of themselves, and wiser people are full of doubts - Author object (95)