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“My greatest ambition is to have a career without becoming a career woman.”
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“A quality education has the power to transform societies in a single generation, provide children with the protection they need from the hazards of poverty, labor exploitation and disease, and given them the knowledge, skills, and confidence to reach their full potential.”
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“Time is what we have in this life, and how we use it determines what our life is.”
― A Different Kind of Luxury: Japanese Lessons in Simple Living and Inner Abundance
― A Different Kind of Luxury: Japanese Lessons in Simple Living and Inner Abundance
“Why is it that so many people start to value money so much that they trade in most of the hours and years of their life in order to get it?”
― A Different Kind of Luxury: Japanese Lessons in Simple Living and Inner Abundance
― A Different Kind of Luxury: Japanese Lessons in Simple Living and Inner Abundance
“When we use these words and we talk about plants having a strategy to do this or wanting this or desiring this, we’re being metaphorical obviously. I mean, plants do not have consciousness. But, this is a fault of our own vocabulary. We don’t have a very good vocabulary to describe what others species do to us, because we think we’re the only species that really does anything.”
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