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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American poet, philosopher and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Aldous Huxley What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes -ah, they have all the necessary leisure.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Don DeLillo What you see is not what we see. What you see is distracted by memory, by being who you are, all this time, for all these years.
    Falling Man (2011) 73
    Don DeLillo
    American Author (1936 - )
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  • Bill Gates What's amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It's so far away in time that they can't appreciate what it means for their whole life.
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Joan Didion What's so hard about that first sentence is that you're stuck with it. Everything else is going to flow out of that sentence. And by the time you've laid down the first two sentences, your options are all gone.
    Faceboek (2013)
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Marcus Aurelius Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Barbara Corcoran Whatever you got you have to accentuate. I ran my female card up and down the ladder my whole career, because I was in a man's world. It was worked by women but owned by men. I was the only female owner in my field at that time.
    Barbara Corcoran
    American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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  • Bruce Schneier When a big company lays you off, they often give you a year's salary to 'go pursue a dream.' If you're stupid, you panic and get another job. If you're smart, you take the money and use the time to figure out what you want to do next.
    Bruce Schneier
    American cryptographer, computer security professional and writer (1963 - )
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  • Carlos Ghosn When a company is facing a problem, it always takes a stance and takes a decision, but at the same time it wants to make sure of what it can learn from it, what enhancements it can make.
    Carlos Ghosn
    Brazilian-born businessman (1954 - )
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  • Elie Wiesel When a Jew visits Jerusalem for the first time, it is not the first time; it is a homecoming.
    Arutz Sheva (17 April 2010)
    Elie Wiesel
    Rumanian-born American Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Alexander Chase When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it - whether it be a factory or a government.
    Alexander Chase
    American journalist and editor (1926 - )
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  • Helen Rowland When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his good judgment, but his charming manners, that won her heart.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Thomas Szasz When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
    Thomas Szasz
    American psychiatrist (1920 - 2012)
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  • Arthur Ransome When a thing's done, it's done, and if it's not done right, do it differently next time.
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  • Jean Cocteau When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.
    Jean Cocteau
    French writer (1889 - 1963)
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  • Campbell Brown When an organization is willing to support only lawmakers who are with it 100 percent of the time, it virtually guarantees that the debate will be bitterly partisan.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Bernard M. Baruch When beggars and shoeshine boys, barbers and beauticians can tell you how to get rich it is time to remind yourself that there is no more dangerous illusion than the belief that one can get something for nothing.
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Boy George When Culture Club broke up, I hadn't been going out a lot because we'd been working all the time, so I suddenly had this period of leisure. And it was just around the time that the whole acid house thing kicked off in London.
    Boy George
    English singer, songwriter, DJ, fashion designer and actor (1961 - )
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  • Bill Gross When does money run out of time? The countdown begins when investable assets pose too much risk for too little return; when lenders desert credit markets for other alternatives such as cash or real assets.
    Bill Gross
    American investor, fund manager, and philanthropist (1944 - )
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  • Alan Alda When does she do all this thinking? We're together all the time but she thinks deeply about things and with feeling and she can remember the facts. We've been married 48 years.
    Alan Alda
    American actor, director, screenwriter, and author. (1936 - )
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