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Camfed has worked for more than two decades in partnership with poor families, transforming this desire for girls' education into reality, and showing the measurable benefits of girls' education for all of us.

~Ann Cotton

Topics: Benefits Decades Desire Education Families Girl Measurable More Partnership Poor Reality Showing Than Transforming Two Us Worked

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To know that someone decades later is still just as impactful as they were when they were alive, we need pioneers like that.

~Annie Ilonzeh

Topics: Alive Decades Just Know Later Like Need Pioneers Someone Still Were

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I feel like decades ago it was either you're black, white, Asian or Hispanic, or whatever, but today we see more of an acceptance for people with multi-nationalities.

~Annie Ilonzeh

Topics: Acceptance Asian Black Decades Either Feel Hispanic Like More People See Today Whatever White You I Feel I Feel Like

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For decades, the men at Area 51 thought they'd take their secrets to the grave. At the height of the Cold War, they cultivated anonymity while pursuing some of the country's most covert projects. Conspiracy theories were left to popular imagination.

~Annie Jacobsen

Topics: Anonymity Area Cold Cold War Conspiracy Country Covert Cultivated Decades Grave Height Imagination Left Men Most Popular Projects Pursuing Secrets Some Take Theories Thought War Were While

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In the last two or three decades, there's been a feminization of the man in popular media that I've never really understood.

~Anson Mount

Topics: Been Decades Last Man Media Never Popular Really Three Two Understood

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My mom was a high school science teacher for decades. She just never made it feel like we had to choose between the arts and the sciences. We had bookshelves full of novels, and she also had Rachel Carson and Aldo Leopold and Carl Sagan.

~Anthony Doerr

Topics: Also Arts Between Choose Decades Feel Full Had High High School Just Like Made Mom Never Novels School Science Sciences She Teacher

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For people who grew up in the last four decades of the 20th century, it is hard to grasp the concept of negative interest rates. How is it even possible? If interest rates are the price of money, is the marketplace broadcasting that money is on sale? Are we just giving it away?

~Anthony Scaramucci

Topics: Away Broadcasting Century Concept Decades Even Four Giving Grasp Grew Hard How Interest Interest Rates Just Last Marketplace Money Negative People Possible Price Rates Sale Up Who 20Th Century

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My advice to the tea party freshmen: Slow the galloping horses to a trot. Big government was built over decades; it can't be dismantled in a year, especially when Democrats control the White House.

~Ari Fleischer

Topics: Advice Big Big Government Built Control Decades Democrats Freshmen Government Horses House Over Party Slow Tea Tea Party White White House Year

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If in previous decades large historic events drew people together and oriented them toward collective action, the recent double trend toward greater choice but less security leads the young to see their lives in more individual terms. Big events collectivize. Little events atomize.

~Arlie Russell Hochschild

Topics: Action Big Choice Collective Decades Double Drew Events Greater Historic Individual Large Leads Less Little Lives More Oriented People Previous Recent Security See Terms Them Together Toward Trend Young

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Crimes of the century differ from the garden variety of murders. They involve wealth, celebrity and powerful attorneys, and live on for decades after the verdict has been rendered.

~Armand Deutsch

Topics: After Attorneys Been Celebrity Century Crimes Decades Differ Garden Involve Live Powerful Rendered Variety Verdict Wealth

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