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• [Norden] said, with the Mark 15 Norden bombsight, he could drop a bomb into a pickle barrel at 20,000 feet.
• The issue isn't the accuracy of the bombs you have, it's how you use the bombs you have - and more importantly,…
• Shortly after the birth control pill was approved for public distribution, one woman wrote to John Rock, its inventor, "You should be…
• The people at the top don't work just harder or even much harder than everyone else. They work much, much harder.
• For every romantic possiblity, no matter how robust, there exists at least one equal and opposite sentence, phrase, or word capable of…
• We vary greatly in the natural advantages that we've been given. The world's not fair
• The values of the world we inhabit and the people we surround ourselves with have a profound effect on who we are.
• Instinct is the gift of experience. The first question you have to ask yourself is, 'On what basis am I making a…
• Radio stations have constructed a narrow door[way], and that's because they don't understand how complex and paradoxical our snap judgments are. It's…
• Living a long life, the conventional wisdom at the time said, depended to a great extent on who we were-that is, our…
• Often a sign of expertise is noticing what doesn't happen.
• I've been in auditions without screens, and I can assure you that I was prejudiced. I began to listen with my eyes,…

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