"I learned the value of hard work by working hard."
-Margaret Mead
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"Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.“
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"It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age."
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"Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women."
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"I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce."
-Margaret Mead
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"Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible."
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"You do have to change things as warfare changes."
-Charles Schumer
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"My kid could get a bad X-ray and I could get a call from the doctor saying I have something growing in my bum and that would change my perspective on everything instantaneously, on what is and what is not important."
-Tom Hanks
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"What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard and its replacement by the new? History, more often than not, shows that hopes raised by such events are often dashed, sooner rather than later."
-Jonathan Sacks
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"Europe is dying. That is one of the unsayable truths of our time. We are undergoing the moral equivalent of climate change and no one is talking about it."
-Jonathan Sacks
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"Most of what needs to be changed in the euro zone can be done without treaty changes. The demand for treaty change is as political as it is legal and I don't think it's going to happen soon."
-Nick Clegg
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"Much can and must be done by governments, but they cannot of themselves change lives."
-Jonathan Sacks
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