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You don't have to be a nerd or a programmer or a network engineer to make a difference.


Rebecca MacKinnon

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We are born different to make a difference.
LISA R. REYNOLDS How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS I never said to be like me, I say be yourself and make a difference.
MARILYN MANSON Never forget that you are one of a kind. Never forget that if there weren't any need for you in all ...
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER Oh, it makes a difference, I thought. And if it doesn't make a difference you will make it make a di...
CHAIM POTOK I believe in work. If somebody doesn't create something, however small it may be, he gets sick. An a...
ARTHUR MILLER Go into the world and do well. But more importantly, go into the world and do good.
MINOR MYERS There's the 'right way' and the 'usual way'.
Folks tend to confuse both.
The right way i...
UFUOMA APOKI There is this one thing that I never ever want to know, and that is knowing how to give up on a true...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
I am not commanding you, but I ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me.
NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the...
NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on...
HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
HARPER LEE No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be u...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. We cannot do everything, but we can all do something.
DILLON BURROUGHS I could make a difference.
CHRIS BURKE Lᴏᴠᴇ ɪs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪɴᴅ ... Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ sᴇᴇ ɪᴛ, ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr...
GAIL CARRIGER Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire.
CATHERINE OF SIENA I have one life and one chance to make it count for something... My faith demands that I do whatever...
JIMMY CARTER I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.
MARY OLIVER It's the curiosity that drives me. It's making a difference in the world that prevents me from ever ...
DEBORAH MEIER Understand and be confident that each of us can make a difference by caring and acting in small as w...
MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN You don’t have to know a lot of things for your life to make a lasting difference in the world. Bu...
JOHN PIPER I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because...
EDWARD EVERETT HALE If you think you are too small to make a difference, you have obviously never been in bed with a mos...
PETER STROPLE Make a difference always and in all ways!
PETER STROPLE if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI A Ritual to Read to Each Other


If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I don't want to make money; I want to make a difference.
LADY GAGA I will not read the last page of novels first," I said, and then punched myself in the face.
"...
BRANDON SANDERSON Have the courage to let some go, and sacrifice for some to stay; thus, live and make life your own w...
MOHAMMED ALI BAPIR You never know when the timing is going to hit in a such a way that you're going to make a diffe...
BOB CORKER People themselves makes a lots of mistakes and still loves himself, and they never forget a single m...
OM BENIWAL You can not change what happened or bring back the past. But you can change the future by being stro...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Maybe that's what praying is all about. Maybe it's not just asking God to forgive us for bad things ...
SARAH DARER LITTMAN To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
JEAN-LUC GODARD There are just some kind of men who-who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learn...
HARPER LEE The role of the Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to think of themselve...
LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It has no power to explain even some of the most basic principl...
LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically...
LEWIS N. ROE I've been given an opportunity to make a difference.
TAMRON HALL Never doubt that one person can make a difference.
INGRID NEWKIRK What I like to do is try to make a difference with the work I do.
DAVID BOWIE It doesn't make a difference what temperature a room is, it's always room temperature.
STEVEN WRIGHT If every smile were received with another one returned, and we were to begin with our own, it wouldn...
JOEY TALLADINO If you have nothing to give to people, give them gentle smile and (or) kind word! Give them love; gi...
NAS KIRIAKOS The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.
ROBERT F. KENNEDY It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Never underestimate the difference YOU can make in the lives of others. Step forward, reach out and ...
PABLO Once upon a time, there was a wise man who used to go to the ocean to do his writing. He had a habit...
LOREN EISELEY To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.
GOLDA MEIR When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing w...
A.A. MILNE Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and s...
CARTER CROCKER All a guy needed was a chance. Somebody was alway controlling who got a chance and who didn't.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Be an initiator of change. Keep improving... To change is to improve; to become excellent is to keep...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR You care because God gave you this unusual blessing: a burden to make a difference.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Enjoy it, kid. Enjoy feeling that you can make a difference.' Floyd flashed him a smile. 'It won't l...
ALASTAIR REYNOLDS How to be a Poet (to remind myself)

Make a place to sit down.
Sit down. Be quiet. <...
WENDELL BERRY Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi...
MARIANA FULGER Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ...
FEREIDOON YAZDI A small change can make a big difference. You are the only one who can make our world a better place...
ANKITA SINGHAL Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different.
JOHNNIE DENT JR. People live for eating,but I eat for survive
OM BENIWAL It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.
TOM BROKAW Each one of us can make a difference. Together we make change.
BARBARA MIKULSKI Little changes can start to make a difference in the world.
JANINE DI GIOVANNI We can make a difference. We can save lives. We can stop the genocide.
KENDRICK MEEK Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
TONI MORRISON If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live wi...
JOAN POWERS Supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?'
'Supposing it didn't,' said Pooh...
A.A. MILNE By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.
E.M. FORSTER It takes a CONSTANT flowing of gas from the cylinder to keep the fire burning under your pot. “WOO...
OLAOTAN FAWEHINMI Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day.
CRAIG GROESCHEL A tooth for a tooth, will make the world's inhabitants a people without teeth
SOTONYE ANGA Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The atheist might have no proof for the supernatural, but they also have no proof against it. If we ...
LEWIS N. ROE He said we were all cooked but we were all right as long as we did not know it. We were all cooked. ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY After Rilke's Letters
-- by John VanDyke Wilmerding II

this is my letter to a young ...
RAINER MARIA RILKE Yes, their reasons are overwhelming. They are as big as hope and as deep as revolt. They are the rea...
ALBERT CAMUS …A city deprived of everything, devoid of light and devoid of heat, starved, and still not crushed...
ALBERT CAMUS Words always take on the color of the deeds or sacrifices they evoke.
ALBERT CAMUS No, no. Don't make that face. Every time I propose to you, you make that twisty, unhappy face. It we...
TESSA DARE Atticus---" ...said Jem bleakly. "How could they do it, how could they?"
"I don't know, but the...
HARPER LEE Learn to stand for something in life otherwise you will fall for anything that comes along which is ...
EUGINIA HERLIHY Dreams can change histories and songs can alter destinies.
TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO It's the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important. You have to do the right thing. It m...
MAHATMA GANDHI “Always remember that something as simple as planting a seed can grow into a HUGE Difference.”
PATTY RASE HOPSON A spontaneous prayer makes differences and does changes.
TOBA BETA Do I dare Disturb the universe?
T.S. ELIOT To know wisdom is to be all knowledgeable ,to use that knowledge for the greater good is to no that ...
GARY F EVANS... If your presence doesn't make an impact, your absence won't make a difference.
TREY SMITH To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is.
JOHNNY RICH Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy

"To go outside, and there perchance to stay
Or to re...
HENRY N. BEARD To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
TOM ROBBINS ...everybody wants to make a difference, but nobody is willing to be different.
ANDY ANDREWS

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REBECCA ROMIJN There are people all over the world who like to write fan letters in the voice of their pet: 'He...
REBECCA HALL Shopping is a bit of a relaxing hobby for me, which is sometimes troubling for the bank balance.
REBECCA HALL It's a controversial issue: many feminists reasonably worry that by taking the concentration off...
REBECCA TRAISTER I am not trying to give an image of a fairytale, perfect, everything else, I am just being myself.
REBECCA LOOS 'Friday' is about hanging out with friends, having fun. I felt like it was my personality in...
REBECCA BLACK Every minute of every hour of every day you are making the world, just as you are making yourself, a...
REBECCA SOLNIT When you talk to an author - to any artist, really - you learn something about how they do what they...
REBECCA MAKKAI Sometimes I'm so tired, I look down at what I'm wearing, and if it's comfortable enough ...
REBECCA ROMIJN Don't get me wrong - I love London, and still have an apartment there.
REBECCA LOOS I wanted to step forward and be on TV and for people to see who I really was.
REBECCA LOOS I'm a new mum who spends her days making baby food and cooking for her man. And I couldn't b...
REBECCA LOOS I wanted control over what was said and what was not said, rather than holding my head down in shame...
REBECCA LOOS I was reading so much about myself in the papers that was not me.
REBECCA LOOS I did not know what my future was going to hold.
REBECCA LOOS I am utterly in love with my son and my boyfriend and live in the most magical place on Earth. I'...
REBECCA LOOS As a writer, I am not goddess of the universes I create. I am at most a stage manager of the plentif...
REBECCA WELLS Some of my acting heroes have built careers on playing characters who do horrendous things - they...
REBECCA HALL Since 'Christine' started screening, I'm overwhelmed by the response from women and men ...
REBECCA HALL I really think that 'Christine' is one in a million in terms of independent or studio.
REBECCA HALL These days we have Smartphones, Smartcars, Smartboards, Smarteverything, but consider this: if techn...
REBECCA MCNUTT The magic of the street is the mingling of the errand and the epiphany.
REBECCA SOLNIT I like walking because it is slow, and I suspect that the mind, like the feet, works at about three ...
REBECCA SOLNIT I don't think that anyone can really understand anything until it's understood on a cellular...
REBECCA HALL I definitely got my philanthropic genes from my mom and dad. They taught me from a very early age to...
REBECCA GAYHEART An airplane should never lean too much to the left or the right, because it puts every passenger int...
REBECCA MCNUTT