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I thought I had to make an impact on history. I had to become the

I thought I had to make an impact on history. I had to become the greatest choreographer of my time. That was my mission. Posterity deals with us however it sees fit. But I gave it 20 years of my best shot. – Twyla Tharp

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Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism. – Twyla Tharp

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My mother was the first woman in the county in Indiana where we were born, in Jay County, to have a college degree. She was educated as a pianist and she wanted to concertize, but when the war came she was married, had a family, so she started teaching. – Twyla Tharp

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It created a global platform that allowed more people to plug and play, collaborate and compete, share knowledge and share work, than anything we have ever seen in the history of the world. – Thomas Friedman

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History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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History begins in novel and ends in essay. – Thomas Babington Macaulay

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There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment of history, or nothing happens. – Coretta Scott King

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Optimist: “Okay, we all realize that the situation is temporarily hopeless.” – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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The United States is at a critical juncture in time. Our government is riddled with historic debt, and the limited resources of philanthropic and non-profit efforts cannot meet the scale of social challenges we face with necessary force. – Simon Mainwaring

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I was elected to come to an incredibly dysfunctional capital and make the government work better, and thats what Im doing. – Andrew Cuomo

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In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not faults! – Agnes Repplier

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