"Sometimes when I speak to groups or I'm interviewed by a journalist, I ask them to imagine their communities without Girl Scouts - to imagine the thousands of food drives and clothing and toy collections that would never take place if not for Girl Scouts."

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Source : "Girl Scouts Changed the World 100 Years Ago — Now it’s Our Turn" by Anna Maria Chavez, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 12, 2012.

Anna Maria Chavez

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“I travel a lot and rarely make it home to Seattle.”
“Small businesses have made the call that to stay alive, health care isn't something they can provide. I think it's a tragic calculation.”
“Who will not suffer labor in this world, let him not be born.”
“The point of mathematics is that in it we have always got rid of the particular instance, and even of any particular sorts of entities. So that for example, no mathematical truths apply merely to fish, or merely to stones, or merely to colours. So long as you are dealing with pure mathematics, you are in the realm of complete and absolute abstraction. . . . Mathematics is thought moving in the sphere of complete abstraction from any particular instance of what it is talking about.”
“I am not here to pass civilities or compliments with you, but on other business. I have stood your meanness as long as I intend to. You have played the part of a damned scoundrel, and are a coward, and if you were any part of a man I would slap your jaws and force you to resent it. You may as well not issue any more orders to me, for I will not obey them... and as I say to you that if you ever again try to interfere with me or cross my path it will be at the peril of your life.”
“This world without a leopardâ€¦I mean, who would want to be here?!”
“May Allah show mercy upon the man who shows me my faults.”
“Building a smarter grid has long been a key part of our government's plan to modernize our energy infrastructure and provide clean, reliable affordable power to consumers. By supporting Ryerson's Centre for Urban Energy we are building a whole new landscape for innovations that will be the backbone for our energy system for future generations.”

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