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  • Abraham H. Maslow Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc. with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hitherto unconscious and uncontrollable processes.
    Abraham H. Maslow
    American psychologist (1908 - 1970)
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  • Warren Bennis Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
    Warren Bennis
    American scholar, organizational consultant and author (1925 - 2014)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Bed is a bundle of paradoxes; we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; and we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Bernard Tschumi Before 2000, everything was about being contextual, and buildings were supposed to be good citizens.
    Bernard Tschumi
    French-Swiss architect, writer, and educator (1944 - )
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  • Benjamin Watson Before competition, as I stand in shoulder pads and cleats, my helmet in my left hand, adrenaline flowing and my heart raging under my right, I never forget the ills of America, but for a moment I envision its potential, remember its prosperity, and give thanks to God for the land He has placed me in and the people I love who live in it.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • Bill Copeland Before deciding to retire, stay home for a week and watch the daytime TV shows.
    Bill Copeland
    American poet, writer and historian (1946 - 2010)
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  • Buzz Aldrin Before deciding what to do about national space policy, Obama set up an outside review panel of space experts, headed up by my friend Norm Augustine, former head of Lockheed Martin and a former government official.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Bethany McLean Before Enron, I think people were a bit more naive about the way things worked, and I think Enron pulled the curtain back on unsavoury practices that turned out to be a lot more widespread.
    Bethany McLean
    American journalist (1970 - )
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  • Albert Einstein Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Cate Blanchett Before having children, I think I probably approached work very differently, and you become much more economical and pragmatic about your relationship to it.
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • Ada Leverson Before he left, Aunt William pressed a sovereign into his hand guiltily, as if it were conscience money. He, on his side, took it as though it were a doctor's fee, and both ignored the transaction.
    Ada Leverson
    British writer (1862 - 1933)
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  • Callie Hernandez Before I became an actress, I was a cellist. I've been playing since I was 14, was in a lot of bands, and acting was more of a hobby.
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  • Brendon Urie Before I had a steady job, I was broke, and I didn't have any money to buy anything, so I would illegally download stuff.
    Brendon Urie
    American singer, songwriter, and musician (1987 - )
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  • Bruce Johnston Before I joined The Beach Boys, I was working at Columbia Records as a producer, and saw The Byrds come in and do their first overdub before Terry even met them.
    Bruce Johnston
    American singer, songwriter (1942 - )
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  • Bre Pettis Before I started MakerBot, I was creating cool stuff and sharing it with the Internet. That's how I knew all the folks at BoingBoing, at Engadget and Gizmodo.
    Bre Pettis
    American entrepreneur and video blogger
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  • Andy Warhol Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there - I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television.
    Andy Warhol
    American artist (1928 - 1987)
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  • Augusten Burroughs Before I'm a writer, I'm definitely a reader and when I read memoir, I really want it to be true.
    Augusten Burroughs
    American writer (1965 - )
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  • Helen Rowland Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Bill Gates Before Paul and I started the company, we had been involved in some large-scale software projects that were real disasters. They just kept pouring people in, and nobody knew how they were going to stabilize the project. We swore to ourselves that we would do better.
    Interview from Programmers at Work
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Barry Marshall Before the 20th century, the ulcer was not a respectable disease. Doctors would say, 'You're under a lot of stress.' Nineteenth-century Europe and America had all these crazy health spas and quack treatments.
    Barry Marshall
    Australian physician, Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology (1951 - )
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