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I hope I inspire people who hear. Hearing people have the ability to remove barriers that prevent deaf people from achieving their dreams.

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This is a green world, with animals comparatively few and small, and dependent on the leaves. By leaves we live.

Animal, Dependent, Green, Green World, Leaves, World
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It is interesting sometimes to stop and think and wonder what the place you are currently at used to be like in times past, who walked there, who worked there and what the walls have seen.

Past, Stop, Think, Thinking, Times, Wall

Yet the leaf is the chief product and phenomenon of Life: this is a green world, with animals comparatively few and small, and all dependent on the leaves. By leaves we live. Some people have strange ideas that they live by money. They think energy is generated by the circulation of coins. Whereas the world is mainly a vast leaf colony, growing on and forming a leafy soil, not a mere mineral mass: and we live not by the jingling of our coins, but by the fullness of our harvests.

Animal, Ideas, Leaves, People, Thinking, World

But a city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time.

Cities, Drama, Place, Space

Each social formation, through each of its material activities, exerts its influence upon the civic whole; and each of its ideas and ideals wins also its place and power.

Ideas, Influence, Material, Place, Power, Winning

Indexing is a successful approach to investing not because it's simple, but because it has performed so much better than the average active manager (the opposite of indexing), and the simplicity is just an added bonus.

Added, Average, Opposite, Performed, Simple, Successful
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