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• The best way to fight poverty is to empower people through access to quality education

  John Legend

  Fighting, People, Empowering

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• How many people have more than one bible in your house? If you have more than one Bible in your home, I challenge you to have a bit more compassion and think about those who have never had access to the Word of God.

  Brother Yun

  Home, Thinking, Compassion

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• With a public library card in your hand, you have access to the Internet and a world of opportunities.

  Bill Gates

  Opportunity, Hands, Library

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• I started Transcendental Meditation in 1973 and have not missed a single meditation ever since. Twice a day, every day. It has given me effortless access to unlimited reserves of energy, creativity and happiness deep within.

  David Lynch

  Creativity, Meditation, Energy

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• The Supreme Court of Canada has given prisoners the "right" to vote. Is it not time that non-jailed citizens were given reciprocity with a "right" that prisoners have; namely the freedom to bypass the public system when it fails to provide reasonable access?

  Brian Day

  Citizens, Canada, Bypass

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• There are many things akin to highest deity that are still obscure. Some may be too subtle for our powers of comprehension, others imperceptible to us because such exalted majesty conceals itself in the holiest part of its sanctuary, forbidding access to any power save that of the spirit. How many heavenly bodies revolve unseen by human eye!

  Seneca the Younger

  Eye, Science, Power

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• With technology, we can achieve universal access to secondary education within a generation.

  Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

  Inspiring, Technology, Generations

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• It's long been accepted as fact that the availability of family planning services saves lives. Where women have access to these services, children and families are healthier, and society at large benefits.

  Martha Plimpton

  Children, Availability, Long

  "Martha Plimpton: Stop Undermining Women's Health With Personhood Amendments and Ultrasound Laws" by Martha Plimpton, www.slate.com. February 24, 2012.

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• From the woman who musters the courage to ask her husband to wear a condom, counter to cultural pressures, to the woman in Parliament who demands access to affordable reproductive health services for women who need them most, daring knows no scale or status.

  Purnima Mane

  Husband, Needs, Demand

  "Women Are Daring, Will You Join Them?" by Purnima Mane, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 1, 2013.

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• The genius does not differ from others in their access to the light within, only in their confident acceptance of its natural outstreaming.

  Eric Butterworth

  Acceptance, Simple, Light

  Eric Butterworth (2003). “The Creative Life”, p.14, Penguin

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• $100,000 donors buy access to Congress and the White House. We believe it's long past time to clean up Washington.

  William J. Clinton

  Stupid, Humorous, Believe

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• The top group of fundraisers for Mr. Obama raised $457,834 for his 2008 campaign - and were approved for federal grants and loans of $11.4 billion, according to the Government Accountability Institute. Selling access to the federal treasury has been a great way for Democrats to raise campaign funds. Since 1989, according to an analysis by Gateway Pundit, big donors have provided $416 million more in direct contributions to Democrats than Republicans.

  Jack Kelly

  Government, Accountability, Analysis

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• As long as I had easy access to psychedelics at the government-sponsored research project, most of my energy went into psychedelic sessions.

  Stanislav Grof

  Government, Long, Energy

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• I believe that used responsibly and in a mature way, the entheogens mediate access to the numinous dimensions of existence, have a great healing and transformative potential, and represent a very important tool for spiritual development.

  Stanislav Grof

  Spiritual, Believe, Healing

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• As long as you are unable to access the power of the Now, every emotional pain that you experience leaves behind a residue of pain that lives on in you.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Pain, Emotional

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.36, New World Library

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• You have to give access to people with disabilities but there is no requirement to hire them. What I mean by affirmative obligation is that producers must take the necessary steps to include opportunities for people with disabilities and a vast majority of them do.

  Richard Masur

  Mean, Opportunity, People

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• The need for a college education is even more important now than it was before, but I think that the increased costs are a very severe obstacle to access. It is an American dream, and I think that one of our challenges is to find a way to make that available.

  Roy Romer

  Dream, College, Thinking

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• A gluten-free diet still allows you access to almost every fruit and vegetable, a variety of grains and legumes, your pick of dairy products, fresh meats and fish and a whole slew of special gluten-free delights to satisfy your pretzel-bagel-muffin-doughnut craving.

  Daphne Oz

  Vegetables, Special, Fruit

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• Video just accesses international information so much more readily.

  Ann Macbeth

  Games, Video, Information

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• More and more people are able to access information - thank goodness we have the Internet and if you are interested you can find things. Which is different than even 20 years ago.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Thank You, Years, People

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, themorningnews.org. April 20, 2004.

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• Kids not only need to read a lot but they need lots of books they can read right at their fingertips.They also need access to books that entice them, attract them to reading. Schools...can make it easy and unrisky for children to take books home for the evening or weekend by worrying less about losing books to children and more about losing children to illiteracy.

  Richard Allington

  Inspiring, Education, Children

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• Any object, intensely regarded, may be a gate of access to the incorruptible eons of the gods.

  James Joyce

  Attention, May, Gates

  James Joyce, Jeri Johnson (1998). “Ulysses”, p.396

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• It is not beyond our power to create a world in which all children have access to a good education.

  Nelson Mandela

  Children, World, Good Education

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.128, Pan Macmillan

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• I have a recurring fantasy that one more article has been added to the Bill of Rights: the right to free access to imagination.

  Azar Nafisi

  Rights, Imagination, Bills

  Azar Nafisi (2015). “Reading Lolita in Tehran”, p.337, Penguin UK

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• When you coordinate your mind and body, you have unlimited access to the wisdom of the universe.

  Koichi Tohei

  Mind, Body, Unlimited

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