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Related ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH LEWIS CARROLL C. JOYBELL C. From the Kindle Book Reflections in the Mirror of Life:THE PROPHET OF LIFE N. R. NARAYANA MURTHY We want to grow the idea of reading gardens across the country. Our aim is to inspire. We want peopl... HEIDI KETVERTIS STEPHEN RICHARDS DAVID BINDER C. JOYBELL C. C. JOYBELL C. SAM HOUSTON SAM ERVIN DEYTH BANGER ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH FRANK HERBERT Maya Angelou had the ability to glean inspiration out of pain. THE PROPHET OF LIFE If we cannot always be entirely sane in our relationships, the kindest thing we can do for those who... THE SCHOOL OF LIFE We really had a diverse group of kids. They had different kinds of disabilities. These children are ... CHRIS RICHEY A community is a group of people who have come together, and they work and they live to try and impr... 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REKHA MENON CRAIG GROESCHEL SUSANE COLASANTI If you want to improve in life, be with kids because they reflect better than the mirror. PRAVIN PRAJAPATI It's kind of like living a dream. For me the whole thing is there's a better way to live life. We wa... MIKE ASH W. EDWARDS DEMING W. EDWARDS DEMING We want council members who are going to support the police in doing their jobs; and who are going t... DAVID PEPPER Life is full of blips and tweaks. Blips are what happens in our lives. Tweaks are the changes we mak... LORRIN L. LEE Civic life, though, was not optional, and Aristotle tells me the Athenians had a word for those who ... ERIC WEINER The meaning of life: For centuries "man" searched for the meaning of life. On that journey, the valu... DORIS J TORRES PETER SINGER J.A. REDMERSKI When the archer misses the mark, he turns and looks for the fault within himself. Failure to hit the... GILBERT ARLAND We're having a lot of young people participate, and we want to make sure the theater is a safe envir... BARBARA WEBB Do you know great people are continually quoted while the average always misquote great people? ONYI ANYADO Road to destination is often very straight with journey smooth, but majority has tendency to meander... ANUJ SOMANY The tree of life is made of purity, eternity and has the bark of wisdom and enlightenment.With its b... GARY F EVANS... STEPHEN KING When sorrow knocks at your door, tell it you're busy finding happiness. SARU SINGHAL It's heartbreaking to see the devastation on TV. People are missing family members, and they have ab... HILARY DUFF (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON The hope is they (Cerberus) can improve sales and improve margins to actually make it a better deal ... RICHARD AULETTA WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage chang... LEON C. MEGGINSON To question reason is to trust it. MITCH STOKES NORMAN AUGUSTINE One-tenth of the participants produce over one-third of the output. Increasing the number of partici... NORMAN R. AUGUSTINE SIDNEY SHELDON ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES To achieve the maximum impact we need a wide range of organisations to participate and make a contri... ESTELLE MORRIS Don't lie to yourself? SONYA.E.WILLIAMS CHARLES M. SCHULZ C. JOYBELL C. Aim for the stars and you'll make it to the moon. Aim for the moon and you'll never make it through ... RAY BEDARD GERMANY KENT We believe that all community efforts to nurture participation in the arts improve the quality of li... GAIL TUCKER We can never thank David Stern enough. His vision to use basketball to improve the quality of our li... BILL WALTON Treat the old people well. They might look unpleasant but that's because of the experiments they mad... NANA ADJOA SAAM IRENE NYAME YE AGGREY-FYNN Choose who to follow. You can't follow everyone that shows up SOTONYE ANGA CHRISTINA ENGELA - Mrzim sve što je odricanje!DOBRICA ĆOSIć Boring people live boring lives. HABEEB AKANDE MARK UDALL NATHAN DEAL We want to improve the quality of life for a large population. GUOQIANG LI For me, democracy must deliver a better life for the people. JOKO WIDODO We are hell different but vanity keeps us stuck. PARUL WADHWA To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world... GARY F EVANS... The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist. APURVA GAGLANI If we ever put research into what the subconscious is we could probably come to the conclusion that ... GARY F EVANS... i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g... SIMI GREWAL people dont know you till they meet you. dont smile if you dont want to, dont be a false person, don... CAROLINA JANETTE GOMEZ GONZALEZ Entrepreneur, you're either raising the bar of excellence or, you're exhaling at the bar which is ex... ONYI ANYADO TRYON EDWARDS An actor is like a piece of clay: you just keep moulding me. Even people who work with you every day... ERIKA ELENIAK ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH FENNEL HUDSON It helps everyone to navigate the community and encourages them to participate in civic activities. ANA CRISTINA RUBIO
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The tools that a society uses to create and maintain itself are as central to human life as a hive i... CLAY SHIRKY You used to have to own a radio tower or television tower or printing press. Now all you have to hav... CLAY SHIRKY Carpooling is important for urban density, air pollution and other reasons, but carpooling is not th... CLAY SHIRKY There is a giant gulf between doing something and doing nothing. And someone who makes a lolcat and ... CLAY SHIRKY There is no larger collective-action problem than the environment. The three biggest lies of the env... CLAY SHIRKY Think about spam filters; if email didn't come from someone that someone you know knows, that... CLAY SHIRKY Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution. CLAY SHIRKY You know you've got a good piece of software when people use it for purposes for which the designers... CLAY SHIRKY Anybody who predicts the death of cities has already met his spouse. CLAY SHIRKY Operationally, the transactions were fairly trivial. CLAY SHIRKY Sharing thoughts and expressions and even actions with others, possibly many others, is becoming a n... CLAY SHIRKY Because Wikipedia is a process, not a product, it replaces guarantees offered by institutions with p... CLAY SHIRKY [F]or any group determined to maintain a set of communal standards some mechanism of enforcement mus... CLAY SHIRKY Collaboration is not an absolute good. CLAY SHIRKY Any system described by a power law [...] has several curious effects. The first is that, by definit... CLAY SHIRKY [R]elying on nonfinancial motivations may actually make systems more tolerant of variable participat... CLAY SHIRKY A firm is successful when the costs of directing employee effort are lower than the potential gain f... CLAY SHIRKY Unlike sharing, where the group is mainly an aggregate of participants, cooperating creates group id... 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CLAY CLARK HENRY CLAY Your to-do list should include items that need to be accomplished for the month, the week, and each ... CLAY CLARK HENRY CLAY HENRY CLAY HENRY CLAY HENRY CLAY HENRY CLAY Most of my fights, I push the pace. I'm the aggressor. CLAY GUIDA If my career detour from special education to singing has done one thing, it has afforded me the opp... CLAY AIKEN HENRY CLAY HENRY CLAY HENRY CLAY In my ideal world, no child would suffer. Charitable instincts would prevail. There would be global ... CLAY AIKEN rock 'n' roll of comedy. ANDREW CLAY We celebrated holidays together, ... He came over to my house all the time. ANDREW CLAY My fiancée and I became very close to him, ... He was very giving, good-natured, and... ANDREW CLAY Eleanor and I were fighting about her not knowing how to cook, and Freddy was sitting there watching... ANDREW CLAY There was a coolness about him, ... He used to wear these sunglasses and these shirts that had pictu... ANDREW CLAY I don't drink to get happy or to forget the pain. I drink to stop the voices in my head. Do you know... ANDREW CLAY If you are a company of the size where you can bang a drum and get politicians interested over here ... ANDREW CLAY I went to school for special education. I always assumed when I had the opportunity I would love to ... CLAY AIKEN As a business consultant, I am a voracious reader of self-help books, case studies of thriving compa... CLAY CLARK Our house was always full of grandparents and aunts and uncles and cousins. BRYAN CLAY Dream up big, hairy, audacious goals that you are passionate about and pursue them relentlessly. You... CLAY CLARK HENRY CLAY It is important to let every employee know where he or she stands throughout his or her time in your... CLAY CLARK HENRY CLAY HENRY CLAY I'm competitive. I like to compete, and that's basically what the decathlon lets me do. BRYAN CLAY I don't think anyone chooses the decathlon as much as it chooses you. BRYAN CLAY I helped deliver the baby and everything. That was probably the most exciting moment of my life, ...... BRYAN CLAY I helped deliver the baby and everything. That was probably the most exciting moment of my life, ...... BRYAN CLAY [Sebrle, 30, visited Clay, 25, in California this spring for training and golf.] Roman's a good golf... BRYAN CLAY [Clay handled the weather - chilly in the 50s, windy and rainy - as well as the competition.] This w... BRYAN CLAY I'm very, very disappointed with my performance here. BRYAN CLAY I am just happy to still be in the medals to be going home with another silver medal. BRYAN CLAY Even though I'm what people call a 'world-class athlete,' I have to do all the same things doctors a... BRYAN CLAY [Clay handled the weather  chilly in the 50s, windy and rainy Ã... BRYAN CLAY I've been dreaming about this since I was a little kid, since I was 8 years old. I'm just glad these... BRYAN CLAY On any given day one of us could have won. I'm just glad it went my way. Roman was there every step ... BRYAN CLAY Overdeliver on promises and deadlines. Show up early, deliver your product early, and deliver more t... CLAY CLARK HENRY CLAY HENRY CLAY When Jack Welch was the CEO of General Electric, he was able to produce record growth year after yea... CLAY CLARK The greatest glory never comes from winning, but from rising each time you fall. A person is defined... CLAY AIKEN I don't understand why people like me! It doesn't make any sense! CLAY AIKEN I embrace the Nerd. CLAY AIKEN I know that I've got big ears and a big forehead and that my hair sticks up. But I'm happy with myse... CLAY AIKEN It's not the money. It's not the fame. It's the influence. CLAY AIKEN I believe God has a plan. God has a direction for me. He may put me on a few detours, but the path w... CLAY AIKEN It's important that I make a difference in some way. It's not necessarily how I make a difference, b... CLAY AIKEN The greatest glory never comes from falling, but from rising each time you fall. CLAY AIKEN It's very rare that you get to go up and meet fans and especially at their house and surprise them. ... CLAY AIKEN I could have a degree in music and come on the show, and Simon could still say 'You stink'. CLAY AIKEN HENRY CLAY HENRY CLAY HENRY CLAY HENRY CLAY HENRY CLAY HENRY CLAY HENRY CLAY If the Hornets go back to New Orleans, I expect we'll get a franchise. There haven't been any promis... CLAY BENNETT It's tough to beat somebody three times. Give Owyhee credit, they played hard and hit their shots. CLAY FITCH HENRY CLAY HENRY CLAY HENRY CLAY HENRY CLAY HENRY CLAY HENRY CLAY HENRY CLAY HENRY CLAY HENRY CLAY HENRY CLAY Have you ever noticed some people are able to stay organized while getting a massive quantity of wor... CLAY CLARK Over the life cycle of that airplane, we're absolutely confident we're going to get 50% or more. 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CLAY AIKEN Pain happens to everyone. To grow up, to fulfill your potential, to develop into what God wants you ... CLAY AIKEN I had a lady who sent me a letter, ... She went on to describe how she and her husband [had sex] to ... CLAY AIKEN Whether this ride lasts for one year or 10 years, I want to have a home base. CLAY AIKEN I spent years and years in middle school getting picked on, so I'm kind of used it, CLAY AIKEN Heck, it's just as insulting as when someone like you interviews me and asks a question like that, n... CLAY AIKEN I have a feeling they are probably mostly ladies, CLAY AIKEN Reach Out (I'll Be There). CLAY AIKEN It's a whole team of people working 24 hours around the clock to make me look like this. CLAY AIKEN You don't have to be around people you are related to be with family. CLAY AIKEN Actually, I don’t hate cats, I’m just kind of afraid of them. CLAY AIKEN Actually, I don't hate cats, I'm just kind of afraid of them. CLAY AIKEN It appears they [the Joint Chiefs] interpret cartoons as accurately as they do prewar intelligence. CLAY BENNETT Stupidity is evil waiting to happen CLAY BOND Certainly Republicans are talking about the impact — pro or con — that Reed would have on the go... CHUCK CLAY In the startup work environment, you get to have a relationship with your boss, the investors, and t... CLAY CLARK Every coach is biased about his own kid, but I wouldn't trade Kevin for anybody. He accepted not mak... CLAY NORTON (The extra headroom) gives us easy access to clean the dust, grain particles and fines from undernea... CLAY MITCHELL People need to know that the cattle and the pastures and the citrus groves they see do not sustain t... CLAY JORDAN Most important to me is not having the process of honoring heroes turn into a partisan process. Hist... CHUCK CLAY They mapped the Arctic Ocean with this thing. 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I spent a lot of time there as a kid. CLAY HARPSTER They spared no expense when it came to building this place. CLAY HARPSTER I knew that house in and out. I use to go there with my folks and spend time with (the King family). CLAY HARPSTER The Zippers seem to embody a lot of different notions of who they are. The CD-ROM captures that. CLAY WALKER We left some room to keep adding names. We thought about that a lot. It was meant to be something th... CLAY GISH I wouldn't be surprised if as many as 25 percent of New Jersey voters said they are supporting Kean ... CLAY RICHARDS The bottom line is that even when things are equal in New Jersey, the Democrats win. CLAY RICHARDS Our proposal seeks to provide stability, clarity and predictability in moving the Yucca Mountain Pro... CLAY SELL I've been a starter all my life until now, ... so I'd love the opportunity to finally pitch in the r... CLAY HENSLEY Sen. 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CLAY BRASWELL All the stuff, curtains, fabrics and whatever else is coming, too. CLAY AIKEN Basic fairness means the displaced people in Florida should be handled the same as those in Louisian... CLAY SHAW I think Marquette Park is one of our pearls in an oyster that we need to shine up. RUDY CLAY The elevated floor allows easier servicing of the drying machinery, regardless of whether grain is i... CLAY MITCHELL Our special teams were super. I mean we gave up a (long) kickoff return, which was not good. Before ... CLAY JORDAN HENRY CLAY My mother taught me that we all have the power to achieve our dreams. What I lacked was the courage. CLAY AIKEN Submarine in the desert. Yeah, an oxymoron if you ever had one. CLAY CONDIT When we're bored, we give each other piggy back rides. HALLEY CLAY There's good and bad things about having a bye. You don't have to play this week, but the bad thing ... CLAY MARTIN The variable that's having the most impact now is the weather. 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I don't define lust as anything evil or nasty. Lust as defined by me, is the feeling of desire: a de... 
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Festivals promote diversity, they bring neighbors into dialogue, they increase creativity, they offe... 
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A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live unde... 
A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live unde... 
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