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Children are trained to think linearly instead of imaginatively; they are taught to read slowly and carefully, and are discouraged from daydreaming. They are trained… — Tony Buzan
He could have made a difference. He could have brought real jobs and development to hard working communities that need and deserve those resources. Instead,… — Loretta Lynch
In 2007, Michael Grimm, former Marine, former FBI agent, accountant and attorney, was poised for success as a small business owner. Instead, as alleged, Grimm… — Loretta Lynch
The short story and the truth is that I was taking vocal lessons here in New York... One day, instead of my lesson, the piano… — Lesley Gore
As I stood and gave the eulogy for young Michael Brown last week, I kept thinking about the fact that this child should have been… — Al Sharpton
Not graduating high school on time leads to fewer chances of attending college and obtaining good paying jobs, and creates instead higher chances of incarceration… — Al Sharpton
For most of us, the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed… — John Ortberg
Instead of planning the retirement of the Space Shuttle program, America should be preparing the shuttles for their next step in space: evolving, not shutting… — Buzz Aldrin
Imagine how much capital a country like Argentina might attract - if instead of defaulting seriatim and affecting a pose of anger toward creditors, it… — Paul Singer
I am the candidate of tax cuts, repealing Obamacare, repealing Dodd-Frank, letting the markets work, coming up with patient-and-doctor-centered healthcare solutions instead of more big… — Wendy E. Long
Instead of books, art, theatre, and music being consigned to specialized niches, we might have a criticism that better reflects the eclecticism of our time,… — Lee Siegel
Of course I planned to write the Great American Novel; that lasted about a week, at which point I decided I had nothing to say… — Jasmine Cresswell
Instead of inventing imaginary friends, I invented whole imaginary worlds. They were elaborate scenarios about spies and adventurers and top secret missions. I crawled along… — Robin Wasserman
What I see as the particularly exciting prospect for writing horror fiction as we go forward is setting stories in more internal landscapes than external… — Andrew Pyper
I was pretty locked up emotionally as a kid - my family situation was tumultuous. But I was extroverted. So when I was in pain,… — Lindsay Wagner
I would supplant the ox with the automobile and pave instead of plowing the fields. 1 have a theory that if a corn field were… — Susan Glaspell
I was 13 when my parents moved to Israel, and I was put in a Scottish mission school. Ninety-nine percent of the children were Israeli...… — Arlie Russell Hochschild
My father was a professor of folklore, and my mother was a teacher until she was married. I had a good relationship with them, and… — Max von Sydow
WhatsApp is both disrupting and demonetizing the entire wireless industry, and now the Facebook acquisition provides the infrastructure needed for WhatsApp to begin offering voice… — Peter Diamandis
Learning how to understand how technology evolves, using tools like a Technology Road Map, is what you need more than anything to ride on top… — Peter Diamandis
As long as working women also have to do the work of child and family care at home, they will have two jobs instead of… — Gloria Steinem
When neighbours interact with each other, it is only natural that sometimes they will run into problems of some kind or another. As long as… — Li Keqiang
For the modern physicist, reality is the whole thing, past and future joined in a single history. The sensation of now is just that, a… — James Gleick
As the Earth continues to slow, leap seconds will grow more common. Eventually we will need one every year, and then even more. Scientists could… — James Gleick
Nature did not gift us with a mighty Mekong like Thailand and Vietnam, with their vast and naturally fertile plains. Nature instead put our islands… — Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

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