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"When you reach the mountaintop look upand think of how high you must leap to reach the stars."

"It is how hard you want, what you want that gets it."

"If size does matter, then dream-n-do big!"

"If you water your dreams with excellence, success will grow."

"Making your mark in the world is better than making trouble."

"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book."

"Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses."

"Your problem is in thinking the sky's the limit. Why set limits?"

"Life is full of limitless opportunities. You ought to seek them."
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"You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa, and if we're honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else."

"Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it's to have any meaning in this world - and stop being its apologist."

"Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another."

"As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both."

"The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off - we do not have to stand for this."

"Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out. We're standing around with watering cans, when what we really need is the fire brigade."

"So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we're facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality."

"To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater."
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