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Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing. ↗

— George Orwell

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I fundamentally believe that people have a genuine desire to be positively engaged in the world around them. ↗

— Chris Hughes

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You can have the best technology in the world, but if you don't have a community who wants to use it and who are excited about it, then it has no purpose. ↗

— Chris Hughes

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You learn pretty fast that there is no magic solution to poverty. ↗

— Chris Hughes

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It's like being at the kids' table at Thanksgiving - you can put your elbows on it, you don't have to talk politics... no matter how old I get, there's always a part of me that's sitting there. ↗

— John Hughes

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When I started my program... there was a big clock in the corner and I looked and it said nine o'clock exactly. And it was funny, because when I was standing on the podium, it said exactly 10 p.m., and this whole hour had changed my life. ↗

— Sarah Hughes

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My heroes were Dylan, John Lennon and Picasso, because they each moved their particular medium forward, and when they got to the point where they were comfortable, they always moved on. ↗

— John Hughes

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I'm a former hippie, so clothes are important to me - your clothes defined you in that period. I guess clothes still defines people. But, I change a lot. I'm in my Brooks Brothers period now. ↗

— John Hughes

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All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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I like young actors because they're so unspoiled, not like some of those actors who are about half an hour into their fifteen minutes of fame by the time they get to me. ↗

— John Hughes

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