The social entrepreneurs are governments' best friends.
Bill Drayton
Recitation: by Male by Female
My fear was of being offered a job that would be kind of a full-time position at a veterans organization or even in the government... I'd prefer to not be that, to come up the Beltway every day.
John F. Kelly
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In all my wild mountaineering, I have enjoyed only one avalanche ride; and the start was so sudden, and the end came so soon, I thought but little of the danger that goes with this sort of travel, though one thinks fast at such times.
John Muir
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The greenness of Ireland is a false greenness, after all. Not that it isn't green - the place can still make you have to pull off and swallow one of your heart pills. It's that the greenness doesn't mean what it seems. It doesn't encode a pastoral past, much less a timeless vale where wee folk trip the demesne.
John Jeremiah Sullivan
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The rocks, to a great extent, look swept clean. It's a much cleaner surface than what we had a right to hope for.
Steven Squyres
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As president of the American Historical Association, I started a programme to make dissertations into e-books in 1999. Before I knew it, I was involved in other electronic projects. Harvard invited me to become director of the libraries in 2007.
Robert Darnton
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Certain roles for older women are aimed at certain older actresses - I'm not one of those. I've been offered any number of Puerto Rican grandmas that I've turned down.
Rita Moreno
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I can't believe women walk around in stilettos. I would not make it two steps.
Rory O'Malley
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In real life, comedians aren't funny.
Michael Showalter
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Today, people call each other 'guys' - this derives from Guy Fawkes, the bomb-making terrorist. No greater tribute has ever been paid to anyone in the history of politics.
Michael Leunig
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What perhaps should receive more attention is the effect of the treatment on the virus.
Luc Montagnier
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In consequence of inventing machines, men will be devoured by them.
Jules Verne
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'Dance to the Music' was just Sly Stone being his natural crazy self right from the beginning. The man was an original and his first AM hit was nothing if it wasn't the example per excellence of the Sly Stone music machine.
Jon Landau
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