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“Diversity in the world is a basic characteristic of human society, and also the key condition for a lively and dynamic world as we see today.”
Source : Hu Jintao's Speech to Federal Parliament, www.smh.com.au. October 24, 2003. 
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“I am very bad at remembering the books I've read and so recently I had a wonderful experience. I decided I wanted to teach Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye. I hadn't read it in twenty-five years. I was surprised to find how much I drew from that book. Stole from that book, learned from that book about writing. I had forgotten and there it was. Morrison has called that text faulted. I cannot see how.”
Source : Source: therumpus.net
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“We [MIT Smart Cities research group] try to identify the fundamental underlying design assumptions that everybody takes as a sort of given and unchallengeable when you think about solving these problems. And we try to challenge those assumptions.”
Source : Source: bigthink.com
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“apartheid still hangs in the air like a poisonous cloud left over from chemical warfare.”
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“Network marketing is the only industry that allows common people to earn millions with a minimal investment and zero overhead, coupled with total time freedom and the joy of global travel. There are three magic words that worked for all of us who have made it to the pinnacle and they'll work for you: 'Just don't quit.'”
Source : Mark Yarnell, Rene Reid Yarnell (2010). “Your First Year in Network Marketing: Overcome Your Fears, Experience Success, and Achieve Your Dreams!”, p.287, Three Rivers Press
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“In traditional agriculture, the soil is the mother. She's the mother who gives, to whom you must give back.”
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“My mom had a Canon AE1 camera and I read the manual and that's basically how I became a photographer. I was in the Baltimore punk scene. I knew it was a special time, so I went out and documented that whole era. I was the only person to really do it of my friends in real black and white, beautiful portraits.”
Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“What keeps me motivated to create new music is the joy of songwriting. The joy of being creative. The joy of writing a poem or essay. Writing anything. I just love writing, whether it is music or words. I just didn't need to share it for the last 18 years. When you share it, it brings on other things, which is good.”
