Barbara W. Tuchman Quotes
What is government but an arrangement by which the many accept the authority of the few?
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As people's opportunities to succumb to confirmation bias increases online - only seeking out information that confirms their prejudices - ignorance, extremism and close-mindedness have continued to rise unabated.
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Takers believe in a zero-sum world, and they end up creating one where bosses, colleagues and clients don't trust them. Givers build deeper and broader relationships - people are rooting for them instead of gunning for them.
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You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.
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I was always in the popular crowd, but I really had atrocious teeth. I was encouraged to 'do well in school, 'cause no one's going to marry you!'
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If we intensify our efforts we can have a cloned baby within a year or two, but I don't know whether we can intensify our efforts to that extent. We're not really under pressure to deliver a cloned baby to this world. What we are under pressure to do is to deliver a cloned baby that is a healthy one.
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So, I understand when they make a mistake and everyone at home is throwing their shoe at the television set.
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For a long time, I so badly wanted to work with Jeremy Piven, and I ended up on 'Mr. Selfridge' with him. He was such a character - so brilliant to work with.
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We see in the electroencephalogram a concomitant phenomenon of the continuous nerve processes which take place in the brain, exactly as the electrocardiogram represents a concomitant phenomenon of the contractions of the individual segments of the heart.
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I have this ratio that if you divide age of entrepreneur by market cap of company. For Facebook it's one. Every year of his life Zuckerberg has been making $1 billion for investors.
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Electric cars are not going to take the market by storm, but it's going to be a gradual improvement.
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There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.
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A lot of the music I listen to is indie rock. It's not on the radio.
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I think if you're going to be in a relationship with someone, you need to be able to share the responsibility, the knowledge, the worry. It's not like it was when our parents or their parents were having lives where the mom just baked bread, and the husband worried about it, and the wife didn't know there was any problem.
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I came to writing because I joined the North Clare Writers' Workshop, which met every week at Ennistymon Library.
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The problem is the fake products today are of better quality and better price than the real names ... They are exactly the same factories, exactly the same raw materials but they do not use the names.
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I will persist until I succeed. I was not deIivered unto this world in defeat, nor does failure course in my veins. I am not a sheep waiting to be prodded by my shepherd.
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I am a lazy person, which is why I like open source, for other people to do work for me.
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It's the playoffs. There's no room for okay.
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It's hard not to be affected by the live audience.
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I'm happy with the way '100 Bullets' ends terribly.
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The cancer I had is not at all equal to other people's cancer. I've never had to have chemotherapy; I haven't had to have a mastectomy.
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Executive leadership ultimately goes to the candidate wearing the biggest codpiece.
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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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What is government but an arrangement by which the many accept the authority of the few?
