Although I don't have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way.

Author: Bill Gates

Author: Bill Gates

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If you invent something, you're doing a creative act. It's like writing a novel or composing music.

Author: James Dyson
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Vanity is the quicksand of reason.

Author: George Sand
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Max - "...Do me a favor, if the constable comes knocking, tell him I was here all morning, will you?

Author: Gaelen Foley
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Don’t be crushed under the oncoming tide of adversity that moves in to test your faith. Make sure th

Author: Calvin W. Allison
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When you see the fire of hate, spread the tranquility of your ocean of love.

Author: Debasish Mridha
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Being always transcends appearance---that which only seems to be. Once you begin to know the being b

Author: William Paul Young
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Wolves travel in packs, not in herds.

Author: Matshona Dhliwayo
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Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

Author: Jim Rohn
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'Kramer vs. Kramer' is one of my favorite films, where you have a story that really juxtaposes a lot

Author: Taylor Sheridan
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Writer’s block results from too much head. Cut off your head. Pegasus, poetry, was born of Medusa wh

Author: Joseph Campbell
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Think about it: virtually every atrocity in the history of humankind was enabled by a populace that

Author: Melanie Joy
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I have always imagined that paradise will be some kind of library. - Jorge Luis Borges, “Poems of th

Author: Tatyana Eckstrand
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There's a reason why people find each other, and this reason is found in their emotional motives bef

Author: Robin Sacredfire
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Even the smallest tender mercy can bring peace when recognized and appreciated.

Author: Richelle E. Goodrich
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Contemporary feminism is enamored with consumer choice and has fully accepted it as a substitute for

Author: Holly Grigg-Spall
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The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist.

Author: Guy Debord
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No wonder of it: sheer plod makes plough down sillionShine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear, Fall,

Author: Gerard Manley Hopkins
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The ego wants to own every­thing; this denies the invinci­bility of surrender, the hand­maid­en of l

Author: Maharishi Sadasiva Isham
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Oh, you dear good father!" cried Mary, putting her hands round her father´s neck, while he bent his

Author: George Eliot
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Wasteland is land which is worthlessfor cultivation. Like a child who has been emotionallybruised in

Author: Pankaj Suneja
Quote #389562

Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical.

Author: Adam Phillips
Quote #61847

Very soon the heavens presented an extraordinary appearance, for all the stars directly behind me we

Author: Olaf Stapledon
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Our souls set us apart from every other living creature, and that makes us unique. It also makes us

Author: Billy Graham
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Our defeat was always implicit in the victory of others; our wealth has always generated our poverty

Author: Eduardo Galeano
Quote #318345

Sachin is passionate for cricket and fame is passionate for Sachin.

Author: Amit Kalantri
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If Jesus was put to death by powerful elites protecting their turf, then the murder is only a histor

Author: Timothy J. Stoner
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No matter what your circumstance, if you provide kids with creative ammunition, they will blast hole

Author: A.J. Mendez Brooks
Quote #377906

Paradise” is a suffering word, grossly overused and ineptly devalued in everyday hype and blurb. Yet

Author: Andrew Rayner
Quote #89107

Each of us has interests which conflict the interests of everybody else... 'everybody else' we call

Author: B.F. Skinner
Quote #124025

A part of me sought the light in all the people I knew, but with the Shadows, it was like bringing t

Author: Laura Kreitzer
Quote #71204

There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even

Author: Viktor E. Frankl
Quote #57013

In the coming days and weeks, Laila would scramble frantically to commit it all to memory, what happ

Author: Khaled Hosseini
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Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade thro

Author: Wallace Stevens
Quote #413425

There are ten commandments right? Well it's like an exam. You get eight out of ten you're just ab

Author: Mordecai Richler
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It is a good initiative for the dreams that would change one society to be nursed in another environ

Author: Israelmore Ayivor
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It was very lucky for me as a writer that I studied the physical sciences rather than English. I wro

Author: Kurt Vonnegut
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Great leaders are most often God’s spokesmen.

Author: Jay Bryan Sandifer
Quote #138561

Time is money, money is power, power is pizza, and pizza is knowledge, let's go!

Author: Aubrey Plaza
Quote #437004

In my dreams I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance.

Author: Louise Brooks
Quote #152706

With the power of God, we can scale any wall.

Author: Unknown
Quote #37820

Though much is taken, much abides; and thoughWe are not now that strength which in old daysMoved ear

Author: Alfred Tennyson
Quote #296709

The old bitterness came up in him and he did not have time to cogitate and push it down.

Author: Carson McCullers
Quote #340759

Ambition is the intellectual equivalent of body odour.

Author: Jerry Toner
Quote #379356

In the end, all disguises must drop.

Author: Gregory Maguire
Quote #291677

There is no repentance where a man can talk lightly of sin, much less where he can speak tenderly an

Author: Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Quote #451994

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

Author: John Wayne
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Living a life of faith is not superficial. You are not simply living in some hurt from the past, try

Author: Phil Mitchell
Quote #179213

This is the future,” Lycan said. “Connecting people to each other directly.

Author: Will McIntosh
Quote #259237

Son, the greatest trick the Devil pulled was convincing the world there was only one of him.

Author: David Wong
Quote #200257

Visionary Fiction speaks the language of the soul. It offers a vision of humanity as we dream it cou

Author: Jodine Turner
Quote #497066

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Author: Unknown
Quote #114691

Our most important problem is that we can talk to express our thoughts.

Author: Debasish Mridha
Quote #319409

If you look at your class as anything less than life or death, you do not deserve to be a teacher. I

Author: Bill Wilson
Quote #240

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

Author: Kahlil Gibran
Quote #189140

You can encounter the great life within you when you recover the zero point. When you encounter that

Author: Ilchi Lee
Quote #138897

The world isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something,

Author: Yann Martel
Quote #132097

The Key To Success is finding a way to win, no matter what happens

Author: Nick Macri
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I would like to do more in appreciating the mindset of the child. Maybe it has something to do with

Author: Meia Geddes
Quote #167092

Your current body is the only body that can take you to your new body—so be kind to it.

Author: Elaine Moran
Quote #483535

I don't think that you can fake warmth. You can fake lust, jealousy, anger; those are all quite easy

Author: Keira Knightley
Quote #412218

Love is ever the beginning of Knowledge as fire is of light.

Author: Thomas Carlyle
Quote #318016

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision. It’s got to be a vision you articu

Author: Theodore Hesburgh
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Or is it that slow paced evil creeps in when it espies and envies happiness, and then takes a delibe

Author: Leslie W.P. Garland
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But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.

Author: Alan Watts
Quote #72807

Like a feather in the air, like a leaf in the sea, I surrender to Thee, I surrender to Thee.

Author: RVM
Quote #120453

The unforgiven (Crying in the night for love) .....Coming Soon ...I'm in love with amazing soundtrac

Author: Sami Abouzid
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If we try to envisage an 'average Canadian writer' we can see him living near a campus teaching at

Author: George Woodcock
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There is nothing wrongwith enjoying life’s luxuriesas long as your happinessisn’t contingent on them

Author: Domonique Bertolucci
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Religion, declares the modern man, is consciousness of our highest social values. Nothing could be f

Author: Reinhold Niebuhr
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Our families cannot choose Christ for us. Our friends cannot do it. God is a great God, but even God

Author: Billy Graham
Quote #10385

Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am." We are ontological oxymorons.

Author: Peter Kreeft
Quote #383743

Mel eventually gave up trying to talk to him and just sat there looking at him. There was not likely

Author: Pamela Harju
Quote #13350

Shit, money, and the World, the three American truths, powering the American mobility, claimed the S

Author: Thomas Pynchon
Quote #325267

A little reckless bravery may end up saving your life.

Author: Henry Chancellor
Quote #361536

You have a great potential. Explore your special skills.

Author: Laillah Gifty Akita
Quote #55109

Life is not always fair. Sometimes you get a splinter sliding down a rainbow.

Author: Terri Guillemets
Quote #237454

To be or not to be. That's not really a question.

Author: Jean-Luc Godard
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She's an old soldier's woman, and she has antennae for things that often escape the officer in the f

Author: Robert Ludlum
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I didn't panic until my chest collapsed and I couldn't breathe. I gasped until I no longer had a thr

Author: Rick Chiantaretto
Quote #369172

If your enemy has the power to see into the future, make sure you are the author of that future.

Author: Lionel Suggs
Quote #485567

Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.

Author: Franz Kafka
Quote #463806

My life motto is 'Do my best, so that I can't blame myself for anything.'

Author: Magdalena Neuner
Quote #94114

You realized you were surrounded by love, that you were held by love, and that you’d had too small a

Author: Krista Tippett
Quote #180120

It is a belief of the mediocre that extreme effort kills.

Author: Moffat Machingura
Quote #73408

You get greatness out of people by expecting it.

Author: John Stahl-Wert
Quote #237898

Giving up is the only sure way to fail.

Author: Gena Showalter
Quote #135198

Your daughter's coming of age, you ought to let her see the world a little.

Author: Susumu Katsumata
Quote #177382

Serious businesses and lenders will tell you that managing your cash flow is one of the most importa

Author: Archibald Marwizi
Quote #132259

If you make your own path in this thing we call life, you will forever know that it was yours and no

Author: Michael A. Contés II
Quote #352987

Let go... How would your life be different if you learned to let go of things that have already let

Author: Steve Maraboli
Quote #309132

People never grow up, they just learn how to act in public.

Author: Bryan White
Quote #167364

Since when did psychiatry become one big, fat Myspace survey?

Author: Nenia Campbell
Quote #308146

Develop your gift to ensure that your invention will be put into practice

Author: Sunday Adelaja
Quote #497281

That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you unders

Author: Galway Kinnell
Quote #29915

I am an equation that only she solves, These X's and Y's by other names called, My way of division i

Author: Maggie Stiefvater
Quote #132159

I am leaving. Where? Not where but whom. Whom? You.

Author: Vikrmn
Quote #474583

Truth, at the wrong time, can be dangerous.

Author: Michael Ondaatje
Quote #332628

It all fell away then – the control, the independence . . . everything. She had known it would never

Author: Umair Naeem
Quote #488050

I'm a sucker for sad disco pop.

Author: Sophie Ellis-Bextor