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- The issue isn't the accuracy of the bombs you have, it's how you use the bombs you have - and more importantly, whether you ought…
- Courage is what you earn when you’ve been through the tough times and you discover they aren’t so tough after all,
- When the students were asked to identify their race on a pretest questionnaire, that simple act was sufficient to prime them with all the negative…
- If we think about emotion this way - as outside-in, not inside out - it is possible to understand how some people can have an…
- Consistency is the most overrated of all human virtues... I'm someone who changes his mind all the time.
- We overlook just how large a role we all play--and by 'we' I mean society--in determining who makes it and who doesn't.
- ..... it would be interesting to find out what goes on in that moment when someone looks at you and draws all sorts of conclusions.
- To build a better world we need to replace the patchwork of lucky breaks and arbitrary advantages today that determine success--the fortunate birth dates and…
- Superstar lawyers and math whizzes and software entrepreneurs appear at first blush to lie outside ordinary experience. But they don't. They are products of history…
- Do you see the consequences of the way we have chosen to think about success? Because we so profoundly personalize success, we miss opportunities to…
- There is a simple way to package information that, under the right circumstances, can make it irresistible. All you have to do is find it.
- There are exceptional people out there who are capable of starting epidemics. All you have to do is find them.
- We cling to the idea that success is a simple function of individual merit and that the world in which we all grow up and…
- Did they know why they knew? Not at all. But the Knew!
- The entire principle of a blind taste test was ridiculous. They shouldn't have cared so much that they were losing blind taste tests with old…
- Economists often talk about the 80/20 Principle, which is the idea that in any situation roughly 80 percent of the “work†will be done by…
- The people who stand before kings may look like they did it all by themselves. But in fact they are invariably the beneficiaries of hidden…
- My books have contradictions all the time - and people are fine with that.
- If you go to an elite school where the other students in your class are all really brilliant, you run the risk of mistakenly believing…
- The most common form of giantism is a condition called acromegaly, and acromegaly is caused by a benign tumor on your pituitary gland that causes…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide