“My dad was a high school teacher and made no money.”
— Billy Baldwin
Author: Billy Baldwin
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“Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.”
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Category: great
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“The older generation had greater respect for land than science. But we live in an age when science, more than soil, has become the provider of growth and abundance. Living just on the land creates loneliness in an age of globality.”
— Shimon Peres
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Category: age
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“If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.”
— Mao Zedong
Author: Mao Zedong
Category: change
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“The war and terrorism in the Middle East, the crisis of leadership in many of the oil-supply countries in the developing world, the crisis of global warming – all these are very clearly tied to energy.”
— Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Author: Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Category: leadership
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