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Thirty years ago, about 80% of a company's assets resided in its plant and equipment, with 20% in the knowledge of its people. Today, the… — Susan Rice
This place is the Devil, or at least his principal residence, they call it the University, but any other appellation would have suited it much… — Lord Byron
There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion. — Baron de Montesquieu
Inability to make decisions is one of the principal reasons executives fail. Deficiency in decision-making ranks much higher than lack of specific knowledge or technical… — John C. Maxwell
It is just as necessary to forgive ourselves as it is to forgive others, and the principal reason why forgiveness seemed so difficult is because… — Christian D. Larson
The poisons are our principal medicines, which kill the disease and save the life. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The fact is I never was too bright in school. I just barely graduated. I had a D- average. I ain't ashamed of it, though.… — Muhammad Ali
The alleged Hitlerite gas chambers and the alleged genocide of the Jews constitute one and the same historical lie, which made possible a gigantic financial-political… — Robert Faurisson
In sixth grade, some kid was being inappropriate with a girl. I said he better stop. Next thing were fighting. Then were at the principals… — Woody Harrelson
I kind of had my life planned out for me. I'd be married at some point, have, you know, 1.5 children, and be a principal… — Clay Aiken
This is how it is today: The teachers are afraid of the principals. The principals are afraid of the superintendents. The superintendents are afraid of… — Milton Berle
When I started Victoria Principal Products, there were 22 full-time employees - they were all women — Victoria Principal
I've had a lot of people tell me they wish I were their principal — Chi McBride
As a girl, I am this stupid, emotional, very loyal, sort of believe-in-values-and-principals sort of girl. — Priyanka Chopra
Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who… — Donald Rumsfeld
In the Soviet Union, government controls industry. In the United States, industry controls government. That is the principal structural difference between the two great oligarchies… — Edward Abbey
One has freedom as the principal means of action; the other has servitude. Their . . . paths [are] diverse; nevertheless, each seems called by… — Alexis de Tocqueville
In short, it is the greatest absurdity to suppose it in the power of one, or any number of men, at the entering into society,… — Samuel Adams
And Botany I rank with the most valuable sciences, whether we consider its subjects as furnishing the principal subsistence of life to man and beast,… — Thomas Jefferson
One of the principal motifs of Nietzsche's work is that Kant had not carried out a true critique because he was not able to pose… — Gilles Deleuze
Odonianism is anarchism. Not the bomb-in-the-pocket stuff, which is terrorism, whatever name it tries to dignify itself with, not the social-Darwinist economic 'libertarianism' of the… — Ursula K. Le Guin
A social group can, indeed must, already exercise 'leadership' before winning governmental power (this is indeed one of the principal conditions for the winning of… — Antonio Gramsci
Human existence had to have a deeper source than our own dank fluids. Dank or rank. There had to be a force behind it, a… — Don DeLillo
With eternal investments there is never a loss of principle or principal. — David Jeremiah
The most fortunate of us, in our journey through life, frequently meet with calamities and misfortunes which may greatly afflict us; and, to fortify our… — Thomas Jefferson

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