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A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, bu

A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited its less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society. – Bill Gates

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Innovations that are guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to local circumstances, and sustainable for the economy and environment will be necessary to ensure food security in the future. – Bill Gates

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Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. Theres a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning. – Bill Gates

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Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers. – Mignon McLaughlin

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The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down. – Charles Caleb Colton

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A good person can make another person good it means that goodness will elicit goodness in the society other persons will also be good. – Bhumibol Adulyadej

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The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control? – James Hillman

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I very much feel that marriage is a sacrament and that sacrament should extend… to that legal entity of a union between what traditionally in our Western values has been defined as between a man and a woman. – Bill Frist

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I dont know what I would have done without believing in God. His support gives me power and energy to continue to be optimistic, to smile, not to be depressed. Sometimes, if things are not going so well, I dont cry. I say maybe its meant to be. – Ofra Haza

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I think love and beauty are what life is all about. – John Derek

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Unity is strength… when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved. – Mattie Stepanek

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