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I had an instinctive feeling that the people who have little or no school training should have something coming into their homes weekly which dealt with their problems in a simple, helpful way… so I wrote in a plain, common-sense way on the things that concerned our people.

Ida B. Wells

American journalist and civil rights activist (1862-1931)

Eradicate poverty. This is all that matters in my country. When I am out training I think about this a lot; when I am running it is going over in my mind. As a country we cannot move forward until we eradicate poverty.

Haile Gebrselassie

The best training is to play by ear: trial by fire.

John Legend

American singer-songwriter

First you learn a new language, profanity; and second you learn not to discipline your dogs when you’re mad, and that’s most of the time when you’re training dogs.

Lou Schultz

I came out of the Civil Rights Movement, and I had a different kind of focus than most people who have just the academic background as their primary training experience.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

American singer, composer, and activist

We have to spend a lot more time training people to be good advocates of U.S. business.

Lawrence Eagleburger

American statesman and diplomat (1930-2011)

I don’t generally like running. I believe in training by rising gently up and down from the bench.

Satchel Paige

American baseball player and coach (1906-1982)

Before I pitch any game, from spring training to Game 7 of the World Series, I’m scared to death.

Curt Schilling

American baseball player

The Teen Challenge Training Center on Pennsylvania farmland houses over 200 men in rehab. Other farms and centers have been birthed out of this ministry all over the world.

David Wilkerson

It is the task of several months and it is a fact that a girl, either while rehearsing or actually playing, may be training for some character or feature in some future production not yet definitely fixed even in my own mind.

Florenz Ziegfeld

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