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“In Africa it's difficult to carry the money, it's difficult to have a banking system with tellers, with distribution of cash. So they are using their mobile phones.”
Source : Source: www.businessinsider.com
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“Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.”
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“It depends on the project, what's happening that day on the project, at what stage were in on the project; it various from project to project and where we're needed.”
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“An invention or new combination can be successful only if all if the elements necessary for the recombination are present in the culture.”
Source : Peter Farb (1968). “Man's rise to civilization as shown by the Indians of North America from primeval times to the coming of the industrial state”, Secker & Warburg
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“We have three generations at home, including my father-in-law. I keep a very low profile, and a lot of things I do are very much with the family in mind. I have actually made films with the family around me.”
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“If you spend too much time learning the 'tricks' of the trade, you may not learn the trade. There are no shortcuts. If you're working on finding a short cut, the easy way, you're not working hard enough on the fundamentals. You may get away with it for a spell, but there is no substitute for the basics. And the first basic is good, old fashioned hard work.”
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“My Christmas prayer is that I would remain close to God, and He close to me. With all the suffering in the world today, there is the temptation to fall to fear… we need to be near the Lord.. we need the Hope of Christmas.”
Source : "A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life". Book by Shantideva, www.huffingtonpost.com. c. 700 AD.
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“Between nature and music there seems to be an elective affinity: they fit together, and when they do experiences of an ineffable kind are generated.”
Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com