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• I was privileged to grow up in Mexico at a time when you could play in the streets. We lived not too far from the ocean, and we would be outside all the time with the neighbours' kids, running free. What better place could there be for a child?

  Salma Hayek

  Running, Children, Growing Up

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• Our meaning is to make our little planet Earth a better place to live, to stop wars, disarm nuclear missiles, to stop diseases, AIDS, plague, cancer and to stop pollution.

  Uri Geller

  War, Cancer, Nuclear Missiles

  "Who is the real Uri Geller?". Interview to Holistic London Guide, www.urigeller.com. 1997.

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• I believe that if you have revolutionary potential, you must make the world a better place.

  Lady Gaga

  Change, Believe, Use

  " Lady Gaga launches foundation to 'challenge meanness'" by The Associated Press, www.theguardian.com. March 1, 2012.

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• Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good... Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.

  Pope Francis

  Moving, Fighting, Thinking

  "The Pope: how the Church will change". Interview with Eugenio Scalfari, www.repubblica.it. October 1, 2013.

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• The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a better place, just as we make it a safer place.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Peace, Justice, Community

  "Leisure as transformation: Volume 4". Book by Christopher R. Edginton, Peter Chen, p. 87, 2008.

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• My greatest responsibility is to acknowledge the mistakes and the shortcomings of the country in which I live, to acknowledge my privileges, and to try to make it a better place.

  Junot Diaz

  Country, Mistake, Responsibility

  "Author Junot Diaz Shares Thanksgiving Memories". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. November 27, 2008.

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• At least once a year, I meet with a group called the Giving Pledge. It's a group of billionaires - including me, Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, and Ted Turner - who have pledged to give away most of their money to charity. We meet for three days to talk about what we're doing to help make the planet a better place to live.

  John Paul DeJoria

  Years, Giving, Groups

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• I actually profoundly think the world's a better place when economics is fairly boring... The more boring the better.

  Evan Davis

  Thinking, World, Boring

  "Think of me as a man of mystery" by Carole Cadwalladr, www.theguardian.com. November 05, 2005.

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• As with most liberal sexual ideas, what makes the world a better place for men invariably makes it a duller and more dangerous place for women.

  Julie Burchill

  Women, Ideas, World

  Julie Burchill (1992). “Sex & Sensibility”

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• I feel like it's important to use this gift God gave me, my life and my career to do something to make the world a better place. It's an easy thing for me to do.

  Martina McBride

  Careers, Important, Use

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• Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.

  Moliere

  Reform, Literature, World

  "The Misanthrope, or the Cantankerous Lover". Comedy by Moliere, 1666.

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  Successful people have a social responsibility to make the world a better place and not just take from it.

  Carrie Underwood

  Responsibility, Successful, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I do fear death. But what I actually fear is not dying. I mean, true, it will be sad. But I know that there is a better place waiting for me.

  Mattie Stepanek

  Mean, Waiting, Dying

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• The Dalai Lama. He is a very wise man of great inner peace who believes that happiness is the purpose of our lives. Through his teachings and leadership, he continues to make this world a better place in which to live.

  Sidney Sheldon

  Happiness, Wise, Believe

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• Try to leave the Earth a better place than when you arrived.

  Sidney Sheldon

  Nature, Environmental, Trying

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• I don’t really know what “intellectual” means, but if it means you’ve got a desire to learn, you’ve got a desire to look for things that haven’t been presented to you, then, maybe. I think that “intellectual” is quite an exclusive word. I think it’s just for anyone that has a thirst or a hunger to improve themselves, or a yearning to escape from somewhere to get to a better place.

  Pete Doherty

  Mean, Thinking, Intellectual

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• When I was younger, I was somewhat of an idealist. I guess I'm a little bit more of a realist now. I think there's a lot that can be done to make the world a better place, but it's more about choosing your battles.

  Conor Oberst

  Thinking, Battle, Done

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• This country is a better place because Fox News has succeeded.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Country, News, Literature

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• I live where I would like to live. I live in Majorca, Spain, and I am not sure there are better places.

  Rafael Nadal

  Spain, Not Sure

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• The reason societies with democratic governments are better places to live in than their alternatives isn't because of some goodness intrinsic to democracy, but because its hopeless inefficiency helps blunt the basic potential for evil.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Government, Evil, Democracy

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• I don't think women hold all the answers, but with their skills, their strengths, we can get to a better place.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Thinking, Skills, Answers

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• The United States is definitely ahead in culture of innovation. If someone wants to accomplish great things, there is no better place than the U.S.

  Elon Musk

  Innovation, United States, Culture

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm used to my films having little effect on making the world a better place.

  Michael Moore

  World, Littles, Film

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• I think there are few things more patriotic than taking the time to make your country a better place.

  Michael Moore

  Country, Patriotic, Thinking

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• If this world is going to be a better place for our grandchildren and great-grandchildren, it will be women who make it so.

  Isabel Allende

  Grandchildren, World, Ifs

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