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The high price of medicines is crippling healthcare systems and denying people access to the treatments they so desperately need. ”
When men and women, boys and girls, are denied the right to education, the right to own land, the access to basic services like healthcare and clean water, a fair price for the crops they grow, a fair wage for the work they do, or the right to be part of making decisions that affect them, the result is poverty. ”
History has repeatedly shown that when a new method or material becomes available, new uses for it arise. ”
When you're 14, 15, the most important thing in your life should be education, because that's what's going to set you up for success as an adult. So if coming out now will hinder your education, maybe we take some time to think about whether the time is right or not. Those are my concern. ”
In college, I was an education major and qualified for several jobs. But the fame that came with the Olympic medals was too threatening to many people. ”
I don't think anybody anywhere can talk about the future of their people or of an organization without talking about education. Whoever controls the education of our children controls our future. ”
Training is always important. ”
My training in martial arts was kind of a crash course in how to look like a black belt. I know the moves of a black belt - my kicks, and my stretches, and my punches and all that. ”
Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance. ”
The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food. ”