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Take something from yourself, to give to another, that is humane and gentle and never takes away as much comfort as it brings again.
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We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts.
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From inside where I live, I feel like I just perceive events in a certain rational way. I often find it sad or poignant, and it may not make me laugh a bit. But I don't mind inventing a portrait that allows others to laugh if that's what they want to do.
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But cord blood also holds the great potential of producing pleural potential cells that could cure many other diseases such as juvenile diabetes, a disease that I live with every day.
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Sometimes you have to take a half step back to take two forward.
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Sometimes, a remix is good because it reaches a whole new generation. But when it gets too much, it's irritating. Also, the original composer needs to be credited properly.
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Members are more likely to seek counsel from leaders from whom they feel sincere love emanating.
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I'm in a very close-knit, very, very tight family. My grandmother had 13 kids, so we had a lot of family like 50, 60 grandchildren and we all lived in Jersey, relatively in the same area. So every time there was something, my entire family was there. And I just believed everybody's family was like that.
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It takes a noble man to plant a seed for a tree that will someday give shade to people he may never meet.
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We in Maryland are hot. We are absolutely hot about these gas prices.
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Most of us believe everyone has a right to his own opinion - as long as it agrees with ours.
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Middle-aged people can balance between believing in God and breaking all the commandments without difficulty.
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An entirely new system of thought is needed, a system based on attention to people, and not primarily attention to goods. . . .
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It was a pass out into the flat. I saw the ball pop out and scooped it up on the first try. I got lucky.
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We believe we are ready to buy heavily on the European and US markets, and we have been considering a number of large facilities that we are planning to buy.
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Mankind is not special by virtue of our address in the universe, or what spins around us, or because life originated here. Slowly, but surely, we've been compelled to renounce the comfort of these beliefs.
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The business schools could do a better job teaching face-to-face management, the actual work of organizing and helping along the efforts of others in the organization. The more quantitative disciplines have gotten more attention, often more research dollars. Areas like organizational science or, even mushier, leadership have had more trouble settling on what it's important to teach, and how. It's rather like strategy itself, which as I argue in the book, has had trouble through most of its history figuring out how to incorporate people, their motivation and ability, into its calculations.
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We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.
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Take something from yourself, to give to another, that is humane and gentle and never takes away as much comfort as it brings again.
