"Because of our youthful population, we suffer from unemployment in Iran. We need more universities and more job opportunities for the young."

-- Shirin Ebadi

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“I've chosen to stay in a jolly place for most of my life, and that is a lot of who I am.”
“I think it's important to do great work.”
“Monotheistic religions in the West have tended to conflate having a general orientation in life, having a specific theory of the world, having a sense of the positive meaningfulness of one's existence, and having a fixed set of rules for behavior, but these elements are in principle separable. ... The "metaphysical need," ... both Marx and Nietzsche held, is a historical phenomenon that arises under determinate circumstances, and could be expected to disappear under other circumstances that we could relatively easily envisage.”

Source : "Philosophy and Real Politics". Book by Raymond Geuss, 2008.
“From a business perspective, the question related to cities and sustainability is clear and compelling: can you have a healthy company in an unhealthy city? Arguably, no. Companies need healthy cities to provide reliable infrastructure, an educated and vital workforce, a vibrant economy, and a safe and secure environment to survive and thrive. Business executives have a lot to learn from cities, and a lot to contribute, and this book shows the way, chronicling the successes and the lessons learned about what it takes to make a city healthy, in every sense of the word.”
“Substantial proportions of the population did not see health as the most important thing in life - and these were more likely to be people with more, rather than less, education.”
“I never turn on the news over the weekend, short of a nuclear detonation somewhere. I just don't. I don't learn anything from it anymore.”
“The true ideal is not opposed to the real but lies in it; and blessed are the eyes that find it.”
“Nothing is too small. Nothing is too, quote-unquote, ordinary or insignificant. Those are the things that make up the measure of our days, and they're the things that sustain us. And they're the things that certainly can become worthy of poetry.”

Source : "Rita Dove On New Anthology, Advice For Young Poets". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. January 2, 2012.

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