"I co-founded Duolingo with the mission of bringing free language education to the world."

-- Luis von Ahn

#World Quotes #Language Quotes #Missions Quotes

“In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness, a mode of being that the way of life about me had said could not be, must not be, and upon which the penalty of death had been placed. Somewhere in the dead of the southern night my life had switched onto the wrong track and without my knowing it, the locomotive of my heart was rushing down a dangerously steep slope, heading for a collision, heedless of the warning red lights that blinked all about me, the sirens and the ells and the screams that filled the air.”
“I'm so fast I could hit you before God gets the news.”
“Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.”
“It has to be real, and I think a lot of the problems we have as a society is because we don't acknowledge that family is important, and it has to be people who are present, you know, and mothers and fathers, both are not present enough with children.”
“A recurring dream probably merits close attention. Something wants you to pay attention.”

Source : "Live Chat with Filmmaker and Dream Experts". Live Chat, www.pbs.org.
“Please stop using the word "Negro."... We are the only human beings in the world with fifty-seven variety of complexions who are classed together as a single racial unit. Therefore, we are really truly colored people, and that is the only name in the English language which accurately describes us.”
“The more you are motivated by Love, The more Fearless & Free your action will be.”
“I believe you can be the person that you dream of being”

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