"Get involved and learn how to recognise a story happening in front of you. Learn how to ask questions and be curious. That's probably my biggest piece of advice."

-- Jill Douglas

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“I have often thought I would have been quite happy as a spider.Even a spider has the right to a mate.”
“I enjoyed my time on the Biggest Loser ranch. Although I will not be returning as a full-time trainer on season 13, I will always be a part of The Biggest Loser family and my commitment to bettering lives through health and fitness will continue.”

Source : "Anna Kournikova Is Off NBC's 'Biggest Loser' (Exclusive)" by Merle Ginsberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 14, 2011.
“It has been proven time and time again in countless studies that students who actively participate in arts education are twice as likely to read for pleasure, have strengthened problem-solving and critical thinking skills, are four times more likely to be recognized for academic achievement, four times more likely to participate in a math and science fair....”

Source : "Arts Education in America" by Quincy Jones, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 9, 2009.
“In fact, eloquence in English will inevitably make use of the Latin element in our vocabulary.”
“I think I did everything possible known to any mayor in the country as it relates to saving lives.”

Source : Interview with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. September 11, 2005.
“Since much wealth too often proves a snare and an incumbrance in the Christian's race, let him lighten the weight by 'dispersing abroad and giving to the poor'; whereby he will both soften the pilgrimage of his fellow travelers, and speed his own way the faster.”
“Most students of nature sooner or later pass through a process of writing off a large percentage of their supposed capital of knowledge as a merely illusory asset. As we trace more accurately certain familiar sequences of phenomena we begin to realize how closely these sequences, or laws , as we call them, are hemmed round by still other laws of which we can form no notion. With myself this writing off of illusory assets has gone rather far and the cobweb of supposed knowledge has been pinched (as some one has phrased) into a particularly small pill.”

Source : Society for Psychical Research (Great Britain), Society for Psychical Research (London, England), Henry Sidgwick, Balfour Stewart, Arthur James Balfour Balfour (Earl of) (1912). “Presidential Addresses to the Society for Psychical Research, 1882-1911”
“Tis I that call, remember Milo's end, Wedged in that timber which he strove to rend.”

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