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Megan Smith Technologist
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"Tech companies like to set stretch goals, like we'll try to be the best company for women and minorities, and we have to ask, "What does that really mean?" By setting a goal like that, it makes all of us pay attention to that idea and try to innovate around it, to understand the underpinnings. One piece is being transparent, saying "Hey, we have an issue, we're open to innovation on it." It's important for innovation to prove that more diversity makes better products."

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Lisi Harrison Author
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"My goal is to teach readers how to treat and respect themselves and each other in an entertaining way. I do that in all of my books."

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Kofi Annan Diplomat, Politician
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"Professional accountants should use that influence to encourage the companies they serve to think long term and integrate sustainable development goals into their accounting, such as by including a natural capital account, which I have heard is gaining ground."

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Kristin Davis Actress
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"In South Africa one in four women have AIDS. When you are there it is shocking. So many people are dying from the disease and the same number are getting the disease each year. My main goal was to learn and call attention to some of the things that were happening."

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"Total victory is the only acceptable goal in a mind-control war because humanity is diminished so long as a single mind remains trapped in superstition [supernatural religion] by programming or choice."

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Luke Wilson Actor
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"Especially with a comedy, you've got the clear cut goal of trying to make a scene funny. It's not like drama where you're trying to achieve some kind of emotion or trying to further the story along. You're trying to figure out what's the funniest way to do something."

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Hermann Hesse Novelist, Poet
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"I had grown a thin mustache, I was a full-grown man, and yet I was completely helpless and without a goal in life."

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