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What I learned at journalism school and at ABC - those skills are the same no matter where you are in the world. Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

You World School Matter Those ABC Journalism Learned Same Where Skills

In Afghanistan, life is so fragile; who knows what the next week will bring? That fragility really affects the way you're able to report, and the kind of stories people will tell you. Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

I think that sometimes people are frightened to take the risk of entrepreneurship. Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

People Sometimes Think Risk Entrepreneurship Take Frightened

The women of Afghanistan have a voice, and it needs to be heard and not forgotten. Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Needs Women Voice Heard Afghanistan Forgotten

Women who choose to breastfeed should get as much education and support as possible. Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Education Women Possible Support Get Much Should Choose Who

Certainly Afghans in general and women in particular want a country in which security is a daily reality rather than a campaign slogan or the focus of drive-by speeches from diplomats dropping in for the day. Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Single mothers are raising more of America's children than ever before. Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Single Before More Mothers Than America Children Ever Raising

It matters whether women sit at the table. No one speaks up for you when you are standing outside with your nose pressed up against the glass. You cannot window-shop for power. Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

You Women Power Matters Sit Pressed Table Outside No-One Glass Up Nose Cannot Whether Against Your Speaks Standing

In Tunisia, where women have long enjoyed greater rights than many of their Arab neighbors, women pushed for and won a new electoral code that guarantees women will make up half of a candidates' list for office. Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Rights Women Will Long Half Neighbors Arab Pushed New Make Make Up Greater Up Won Than Office List Candidates Where Tunisia Electoral Many Code Enjoyed Guarantees

The military alone cannot end the conflict in Afghanistan. On that much nearly everyone can agree, offering a rare island of consensus among sides otherwise divided on the question of how and when America's longest-ever war should wind down. Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

War Alone Conflict Rare Wind Down Military Otherwise Everyone Sides Divided Island How Question End Offering America Afghanistan Cannot Much Should Agree Among Nearly Consensus

We do not invest in victims, we invest in survivors. Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Invest Survivors Victims

The C Mission was the first command and service module. The D Mission was the first mission involving a lunar module in a manned fashion and the command module, and the E would take this lunar module and the command module into a very high elliptical orbit, about 4,000-mile-high orbit. Gene Kranz

Service Fashion First High Would About Take Mission Involving Command Very Orbit Manned

I did everything by the numbers. I had checklists upon checklists. If I wasn't ahead of everybody on my team, I didn't feel I was doing my job. Gene Kranz

Job Everybody Everything Had Feel Doing Did Team Numbers

If you didn't like somebody, you just let 'em know it, and hopefully that would square 'em away. Not only would they critique me, get on my case, but basically it was that kind of relationship. It was always a learning, team-building relationship. Gene Kranz

Me Relationship You Learning Somebody Kind Hopefully Would Critique Case Only Like Know Always Square Get Just Away Basically

We've learned a lot by building the International Space Station, the good, the bad. But, the fact is is that working together as a team, unity aboard that space station, we can accomplish great things. Gene Kranz

One of the things we have to remember about the poorest countries in the world is that parents, extremely poor parents, are making the choice of whether to send their girls to school. And they are struggling with lack of water, lack of firewood, and lack of care for their youngest children. And those burdens fall on the girls. Gene Sperling

World Water Remember School Care Girl Parents Fall Extremely Those One Of The Things About Struggling Firewood Countries Making Burdens Send Lack Children Whether Poor Poorest Choice Youngest Things

There is no question in the world that educating a girl is good for her country and good for her. The challenge is, is it good for her parents who are living in extreme poverty, who need the girl's help to take care of getting firewood, water, taking care of young children? Gene Sperling

Good World Water Challenge Care Girl Parents Poverty Country Young Living Extreme Extreme Poverty No Question Take Take Care Firewood Taking Educating Question Getting Children Young Children Help Who Her Need

I think Americans have big hearts. Gene Sperling

Big Think Hearts American

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