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“If you want to lift up humanity, empower women. It is the most comprehensive, pervasive, high-leverage investment you can make in human beings.”
― Melinda Gates, The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World

“History shows us that reversing a decline is very difficult because it requires undoing so many things that have already been done. For example, if one's spending is greater than one's earnings and one's liabilities are greater than one's assets, those circumstances can only be reversed by working harder or consuming less. The question is whether we can face our challenges honestly and adapt and change to meet them.”
― Ray Dalio, Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail

“Indeed, in the face of the unprecedented violence, it was not the state alone which hid behind a wall of silence, nor the victims, who bound their pain tightly behind it - the whole country, it would appear, lost its voice to silence: 'The May 13 Incident became the greatest taboo of all. When school resumed, we wore our insignia of mourning to class. Our teachers and classmates saw it clearly on our school uniforms but didn't say a single word about it, neither did they come forward to extend any condolences. This made us feel very dejected.' (Interview 17).”
― Members of the May 13 Oral History Group, Life After: Oral Histories of the May 13 Incident