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«The privilege of a higher education, especially outside Africa, broadened my original horizon and encouraged me to focus on the environment, women and development in order to improve the quality of life of people in my country in particular and in the African region in general.»
Author: Wangari Maathai
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Africa, African, broaden, broadened, broadening, Broadens, encouraged, focus on, higher education, horizon, in particular, My Country, region
«When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable»
Author: Benjamin Spock
(Author, Pediatrician)
| About:
Women
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competitive, disagreeable, encouraged
«The English masses are lovable: they are kind, decent, tolerant, practical and not stupid. The tragedy is that they are too many of them, and that they are aimless, having outgrown the servile functions for which they were encouraged to multiply. One day these huge crowds will have to seize power because there will be nothing else for them to do, and yet they neither demand power nor are ready to make use of it; they will learn only to be bored in a new way.»
Author: Cyril Connolly
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aimless, crowds, encouraged, functions, multiply, outgrow, outgrowing, outgrown, outgrows, servile
«The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged»
Author: Ovid
(Author, Poet)
| About:
Achievement,
Animals
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accord, encouraged, faster, horse, horse racing, race horse, spirited
«Wanting to work is so rare a merit that it should be encouraged.»
«The religious superstition is encouraged by means of the institution of churches, processions, monuments, festivities....The so-called clergy stupefy the masses....They befog the people and keep them in an eternal condition of stupefaction»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
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Church,
Religion,
Superstition
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befog, churches, clergy, encouraged, monuments, processions, so-called, stupefaction, stupefied, stupefies, stupefy, stupefying, The Masses, The So
«The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others.»
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