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You need massive recruitment to tell the poorest of the poor what is possible.


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SANDRA TSING LOH It's a massive recruitment for us.
CHRISTIAN HORNER This is going to displace the poorest of the poor without any international development plan for wha...
JEFF VOGT The mindset of the poor;I need more college degrees to be able to make impact in life.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The saying sell all your belongings & give to the poor simply means "Redirect your mind to the verit...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an...
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD Tell your story to the universe and Let your actions speak LOVE.' No matter what it is.
NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO More mony is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation ben...
JONATHAN KOZOL The role of recruitment is crucial. The two aspects of the Academy are recruitment and coaching. Eve...
GARY ISSOTT I always think of my films within the context of where aesthetics meet economics. That's the nat...
IRA SACHS We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. Therefore, everyone sees the world in d...
MUDITHA CHAMPIKA They are the poorest of the poor in the Western hemisphere.
RICHARD SEIVERT My parents worked their tails off, but we weren't the poorest people in town. Some people I went...
DANNY DEVITO Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. LEAP is intended to help low-income residents pay their bills, not cover the whole amount. Of course...
GLENN COOPER The love you get, is equal to the love you give.
BEN OAK Jonathan Swift made a soul for the gentlemen of this city by hating his neighbor as himself.
W.B. YEATS You don't tell an astronaut what to do.
ATMOSPHERE To the poor investment means "my money will depart from me forever.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The poor have a penchant for treating money poorly because their minds have been conditioned towards...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) She buys "mixed salad greens" for seven dollars a bag, triple-washed with who knows what. And to get...
RUDOLPH DELSON What this seems to tell us is, whatever the conditions were that allowed for a good recruitment inde...
LYNN FEGLEY The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense.
JIM HARRISON We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. So, everyone see the world in different...
MUDITHA CHAMPIKA How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g...
C. JOYBELL C. The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH This is what happens when you privatize Medicare. The Medicare prescription drug benefit is a massiv...
PEDRO RODRIGUEZ Empathy is the ability to step outside of your own bubble and into the bubbles of other people. Empa...
C. JOYBELL C. The country is so poor. It's one of the poorest nations in this hemisphere, with 60 to 70 percent of...
CHARLES MARKS We continue to blame the poor for their own condition. They are lazy. We do not want to know that th...
MADELEINE M. KUNIN How do you love your children?
By doing what's best for them.
Then how would you love your...
J. GRANT HOWARD How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
The Q...
LEWIS CARROLL When you watch Robin Williams, you can see a lot of Jonathan Winters. Robin is the first one to admi...
GILBERT GOTTFRIED Science is great for us. But for someone who sees the humans for more than one million years, scienc...
MUDITHA CHAMPIKA I tell people that the history of Mozilla and Firefox is so one of a kind that it should not be used...
MITCH KAPOR Originally created to serve the poorest and sickest among us, the Medicaid program has grown dramati...
FRED UPTON Never endeavor to separate the poor from the rich,for they are one,they originated from the same sou...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Give a poor mind $1m & service will ultimately end,but the rich knows that life is all about service...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Give a poor mind $1m & he will still end in poverty because,generating wealth has never been his ide...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The poor have a right that they always fail to exercise,it is the right to become rich.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The only difference between the rich & the poor is how they process their thinking.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Most poor will never become rich because their right to riches have been willingly surrendered to th...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Everyone always says how I'm so smart, but they don't know what it's like being me. always feeling l...
SUSANE COLASANTI My old man always told me never do anything during the day that will keep you awake at night.
JONATHAN DUNNE The purpose of such an act is to prevent the massive movement of people and the possible spread of t...
GAO QIANG Prison is a recruitment center for the army of crime. That is what it achieves.
MICHEL FOUCAULT Be a good guide, tell me what you see, are sure is that?
Please try to describe the picture as ...
DEYTH BANGER Every time the rich ignore the poor, the rich become poorer! Poorest is the person who has all the m...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN The poorest of the poor, who were assigned to a plan automatically, were the ones who had to test a ...
HELENE NELSON Do what is best for you; it will be the best for the world.
DEBASISH MRIDHA Whether we are poor among the poorest, or less poor among the wealthier, let us stand proud and note...
MATHIEU KEREKOU Courage is feeling justly afraid and yet still doing what is right.
SHANNON HALE When our lips parted, he sighed. “I love those eyes, angel. When they look at me, I feel like anyt...
BIJOU HUNTER May I never neither turn left nor turn right in my journey of life, but may I go straight to Christ ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Ques eso? Queso?
NOLAN J. VANDER HAAGEN To tell the truth is useful to those to whom it is spoken, but disadvantageous to those who tell it,...
BLAISE PASCAL Is it possible that you know what he was strangled with and you just didnt want to tell me?
JOHN SHORT When you begin to do things that raise the achievement of the poorest and disenfranchised students, ...
DR. ASA HILLIARD It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the populatio...
THOMAS SOWELL If Romeo can do 'Dancing with the Stars,' anything is possible.
ROMEO MILLER pushed back the boundaries of what was possible in rock...massive, over the top...bigger...this was ...
THE EAGLES It shows what's possible with the combination of a massive ground-based survey and the imaging capab...
ADAM BOLTON Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
LEO TOLSTOY Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be...
GARY F EVANS... I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON The goal of the Recruitment Council is to bring together community partners with diverse backgrounds...
CARRIE ZERAFA .מסכן, אתה כמו ספר ילדים בלי תמונות
EFRAT CYBULKIEWICZ The Lottery, with its weekly pay-out of enormous prizes, was the one public event to which the prole...
GEORGE ORWELL We need more teams, more participants. I have an endless list of volunteer opportunities. Team recru...
ROBBY STEPHENS There is no doubt that no amount of marketing or recruitment or success gives us a chance to tell ou...
ANDREW FLAGEL You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I ...
SUFJAN STEVENS The secret of my success is my hairspray.
RICHARD GERE Love is blind, and a deaf-mute too.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS What if we ceased to pledge our allegiance to the bottom line and stood, instead, with those who lin...
GREGORY BOYLE From the standpoint of the upper classes, the system had many merits. They felt that what was paid o...
BERTRAND RUSSELL I do not equate productivity to happiness. For most people, happiness in life is a massive amount of...
TIMOTHY FERRISS It doesn't tell you what sort of answers you need to find. It's open-ended.
JONATHAN WELLS You should not convict on the testimony if it is not supported. The documents don't tell you what yo...
DARREN LAMARCA The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything.
VOLTAIRE Tourism provides employment to the poorest of the poor. Gram seller earns something, auto-rickshaw d...
NARENDRA MODI The reconstruction, massive as it is, is really the easy part. Rebuilding confidence, especially amo...
BRUCE REED Especially some of the poorest in our society need to have the greatest support because health inequ...
ANDREW LANSLEY You say you care about the poor? Tell me their names.
CRAIG GREENFIELD She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word.
DIANA WYNNE JONES The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a...
NEIL GAIMAN What is the Other?" they ask.
The Other is the one who taught me whatI should be like, but not ...
PAULO COELHO We have a collective responsibility to ensure that the poorest of the poor are not the ones who pay ...
ANTONIO MARIA COSTA How you see the world is a reflection of what is within you.
STEPHEN RICHARDS To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ...
GARY F EVANS... We need to make sure doctors can afford to practice medicine here and of course recruitment activiti...
JAMES GIBSON Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ...
GERMANY KENT Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do
SOTONYE ANGA Live Below the Line raises real money to help the world's poorest people, but it is also a symbo...
HUGH EVANS No man can tell whether he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a ma...
HENRY WARD BEECHER The Great and Tragic Love of Jonathan Shadowhunter and David the Silent, by Clary Fray, Aged 1...
CASSANDRA CLARE A calling is you feel - you look out and see the need - maybe it's the need for the poor, to hel...
BILLY GRAHAM Oh, say! what is that thing call'd light, Which I must ne'er enjoy? What are the blessings of...
COLLEY CIBBER We need to speak to the Greens and the FDP in the next few days. What we need is the largest possibl...
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But when low dunces will ...
JONATHAN SWIFT What some people invent the rest enlarge.
JONATHAN SWIFT All human race would be wits. And millions miss, for one that hits.
JONATHAN SWIFT Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you pleas...
JONATHAN SWIFT In church your grandsire cut his throat; to do the job too long he tarried: he should have had my he...
JONATHAN SWIFT Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.
JONATHAN SWIFT We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
JONATHAN SWIFT Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as in books it is generally the wor...
JONATHAN SWIFT Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.
JONATHAN SWIFT What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its translation. The characters in a n...
JONATHAN MILLER Coffee makes us severe, and grave, and philosophical.
JONATHAN SWIFT Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar re...
JONATHAN RABAN One of the very best rules of conversation is to never, say anything which any of the company wish h...
JONATHAN SWIFT And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to...
JONATHAN SWIFT Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same positio...
JONATHAN SWIFT The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
JONATHAN SWIFT I wasn't driven into medicine by a social conscience but by rampant curiosity.
JONATHAN MILLER For the rest,
Whatever we have got has been by infinite labor, and search, and ranging through e...
JONATHAN SWIFT We have a choice: to plow new ground or let the weeds grow.
JONATHAN WESTOVER What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.
JONATHAN SWIFT I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
JONATHAN SWIFT One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
JONATHAN SWIFT When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in ...
JONATHAN SWIFT 'Tis an old maxim in the schools,
That flattery's the food of fools;
Yet now and then your men...
JONATHAN SWIFT She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitch folk.
JONATHAN SWIFT One of the oddest features of western Christianized culture is its ready acceptance of the myth of t...
JONATHAN RABAN