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  • Bill Gates At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right.
    Interview published in BBC (website): news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/club/your_reports/newsid_1697000/1697132.stm
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Winston Churchill Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Clare Boothe Luce Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, "She doesn't have what it takes." They will say, "Women don't have what it takes."
    Clare Boothe Luce
    American diplomat and writer (1903 - 1987)
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  • Anthony J. D'Angelo Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant.
    Anthony J. D'Angelo
    American writer
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  • Cormac McCarthy Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
    Al de mooie paarden (1992) 244
    Cormac McCarthy
    American novelist, playwright, short-story writer, and screenwriter (1933 - 2023)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us - never cease to instruct - never cloy.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Knute Rockne Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.
    Knute Rockne
    Norwegian-American football player and coach (1888 - 1931)
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  • Armistead Maupin But I will say that the drugs are much more ferocious then they used to be. There are people wrecking their lives with addiction, which seems much more severe.
    Armistead Maupin
    American writer (1944 - )
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • B. R. Ambedkar Caste may be bad. Caste may lead to conduct so gross as to be called man's inhumanity to man. All the same, it must be recognized that the Hindus observe Caste not because they are inhuman or wrong-headed. They observe Caste because they are deeply religious.
    B. R. Ambedkar
    Indian jurist, economist and politician (1891 - 1956)
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  • Muhammad Ali Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a dream, a vision.
    Muhammad Ali
    American Boxer (1942 - 2016)
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  • Bryant H. McGill Change will never happen when people lack the ability and courage to see themselves for who they are.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Paul Klee Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.
    Paul Klee
    Swiss artist (1879 - 1940)
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  • Bill Bryson Clearly, some time ago makers and consumers of American junk food passed jointly through some kind of sensibility barrier in the endless quest for new taste sensations. Now they are a little like those desperate junkies who have tried every known drug and are finally reduced to mainlining toilet bowl cleanser in an effort to get still higher.
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • John Madden Coaches have to watch for what they don't want to see and listen to what they don't want to hear.
    John Madden
    American Football broadcaster and coach (1936 - )
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  • William James Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and mental resources. Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives far within his limits. He possesses power of various sorts which he habitually fails to use.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Josh Billings Consider the postage stamp, my son. It secures success through its ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Sir Edward Coke Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.
    Sir Edward Coke
    English barrister, judge, and politician
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