Marian Wright Edelman Quotes

Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.

Marian Wright Edelman

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LifeTimeServicePurposeYouRent

It's really exciting to be a voice for girls with curls.

Jillian Hervey

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It may sound crazy, but maybe there's an economic way of producing a leather-like product in the laboratory.

Jochen Zeitz

CrazyProductWaySoundMayMaybe

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

LiveTrustYourselfYouKnowWill

The public should know that the liability issues here have yet to be resolved, or even raised. If you're a farmer and you're growing a genetically engineering food crop, those genes are going to flow to the other farm.

Jeremy Rifkin

FoodEngineeringFarmFarmerYou

He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

John Milton

GreenRevengeOwnWellWouldWounds

Most exciting for me was to make the Pro Bowl in 14 of 15 years.

Merlin Olsen

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Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward.

Robert Collier

WorldForwardStandYouGoSafe

If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it.

Ronnie Lott

MindBelieveYouAchieve

I've been using the same 'I Ching' since I was teenager when it was given to me by a fellow teenager; it seems too late to change now. I don't use it often, but when I do, it really does help. You can fool yourself, but not the 'I Ching.'

Miranda July

ChangeFoolYourselfMeHelpYou

You're in the game of life to fight. If you're in business, and you're not aggressively building, you shouldn't be in.

Jon Huntsman, Sr.

LifeBusinessFightBuildingGame

I remember taking photographs as the local Gauleiter, Albert Forster, harangued huge crowds of Germans in the evenings with a big swastika flag in the background.

Douglas Slocombe

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I never thought that being a public speaker would teach me so much about life and make it so beautiful as well.

Clemantine Wamariya

LifeBeautifulMeThoughtNever

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