Bunker Roy famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Strengthen the rural areas and you will find less people migrating to urban areas. You give them opportunity, self respect & self confidence, they will never go to an urban slum.
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[The Barefoot College is] the only college where the teacher is the learner and the learner is the teacher.
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I had a very elitist, snobbish, expensive education in India, and that almost destroyed me.
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We went to Ladakh ... and we asked this woman, 'What was the benefit you had from solar electricity?' And she thought for a minute and said, 'It's the first time I can see my husband's face in winter.'
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The prime minister is 12 years old. She looks after 20 goats in the morning, but she's prime minister in the evening.
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What's the best way of communicating in the world today? Television? No. Telegraph? No. Telephone? No. Tell a woman.
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Our job is to show how it is possible to take an illiterate woman and make her into an engineer in six months and show that she can solar-electrify a village
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Listen to the people on the ground. They have all the solutions in the world.
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I had a fantastic mother who taught me self-confidence.
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Love from within, be determined and let your self-confidence take you to heights you never experienced before
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The best way to help Burma is to empower the people of Burma, to help us have enough self-confidence to obtain what we want for ourselves.
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Beloved, have you ever thought that someday you will not have anything to try you, or anyone to vex you again? There will be no opportunity in heaven to learn or to show the spirit of patience, forbearance, and longsuffering. If you are to practice these things, it must be now.
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I met with Martha and Sharon to see if there are any opportunities in syndication. My vision says her customers and fans are still loyal to her. I don't think the Martha Stewart brand loyalty has changed.
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Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.
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This is my belief: that through difficulties and problems God gives us the opportunity to grow. So when your hopes and dreams and goals are dashed, search among the wreckage, you may find a golden opportunity hidden in the ruins''.
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There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.
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Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.
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The bells they sound on Bredon, And still the steeples hum. "Come all to church, good people"- Oh, noisy bells, be dumb; I hear you, I will come.
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