Thought for Today

"The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket."
- Andrew Carnegie

Thought for Today

There comes a time when you have to choose between turning the page and closing the book.

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"To know another language is to have a second soul."
-Charlemagne, King of the Franks (742-814)

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"A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed -- I well know. For it is a sign that he has tried to surpass himself."
-Georges Clemenceau, statesman (28 Sep 1841-1929)

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"I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love."
- Marilyn Monroe

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"All battles are fought by scared men who'd rather be some place else."
- John Wayne

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"Be happy, but never satisfied."
- Bruce Lee

"A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others."
-William Faulkner, novelist (25 Sep 1897-1962)

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"Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it."
- Buddha

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"If you meditate, sooner or later you will come upon love. If you meditate deeply, sooner or later you will start feeling a tremendous love arising in you that you have never known before."
- Osho

Thought for Today

In my youth I thought of writing a satire on mankind; but now in my age I think I should write an apology for them.
-Horace Walpole, novelist and essayist (24 Sep 1717-1797)

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"In tennis, you strike a ball just after the rebound for the fastest return. It's the same with investment."
- Masayoshi Son

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"Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil."
- Baltasar Gracian

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"All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look."
- Wislawa Szymborska

Thought for Today

"Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket, and do not pull it out and strike it merely to show you have one. If you are asked what o'clock it is, tell it, but do not proclaim it hourly and unasked, like the watchman."
-Lord Chesterfield, statesman and writer (22 Sep 1694-1773)

Thought for Today

"Invention requires an excited mind; execution, a calm one."
-Johann Peter Eckermann, poet (21 Sep 1792-1854)

A Thought for Today

"The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next."
-Mignon McLaughlin

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"Be not too hasty to trust or admire the teachers of morality; they discourse like angels but they live like men."
-Samuel Johnson, lexicographer (18 Sep 1709-1784)

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"It's important to understand how people perceive risk, and how that translates into investment behaviour."
-Andrew Lo

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"Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase."
- Martin Luther King

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"In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed"
- Charles Darwin

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"It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them."
-Agatha Christie, author (15 Sep 1890-1976)

Thought for Today

"Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation. Tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his ego."
-Jean Arp, artist and poet (16 Sep 1887-1948)

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Global Partnership for Education provides education funding for more than 60 of the world's poorest countries. Ask GPE to fund 12 years of free education for every girl anywhere in the world.

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Dear Friend,

When I was shot by the Taliban for speaking publicly about the importance of a girl's education, they thought they had silenced me. But they were wrong.

Since that day, my voice has only grown stronger. And today, I am asking that you stand with me and support over 60 million of our sisters around the world who are deprived the opportunity of an education.

The Global Partnership for Education (GPE) receives funds from donor countries around the globe and supports the education plans of over 60 of the world's poorest nations. In December, the GPE Board of Directors will meet to agree whether its current mandate of raising money for basic education for girls is the right one or whether they should aim higher and commit to funding for education for every girl through secondary school, as in the new United Nations Sustainable Development Goals agreed by world leaders.

I am asking you to stand with me and our 60 million sisters around the world in asking the GPE to extend its mission and GPE partners to increase their funding to support 12 years of free primary and secondary education for every girl, no matter where they live.

Since the GPE is a major funder of education, providing funds to support 12 years of primary and secondary school would have a dramatic impact on the lives of millions of girls around the world. The time to act is now.

Stand with us and tell the GPE and its partners that our sisters deserve a primary and a secondary education so that educated girls can fulfil their dreams and continue to improve our world.

Thank you Mukunthan.

Malala Yousafzai

London, United Kingdom
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