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Conditions Quote by Eric Ries

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“A startup is a human institution designed to deliver a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty.”

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Every startup has a chance to change the world, by bringing not just a new product, but an entirely new institution into existence.

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One can put some trust in the gratitude of a sovereign, and also in that of his family; under certain conditions, one can even…

Otto von Bismarck

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Most celebrated men live in a condition of prostitution.

Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

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It's easier to change a law than an age-old mentality. Deep down, many prejudices, many hostilities, many fears persist. But if we take a…

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I can still function when I don't have that balance I crave. I had a tendency to be precious about acting, thinking of it…

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History is, in its essentials, the science of change. It knows and it teaches that it is impossible to find two events that are…

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The average condition of the people improving or deteriorating, depends upon whether population is advancing faster than improvement, or improvement than population.

John Stuart Mill

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A good aim surveys the present state of experience of pupils, and forming a tentative plan of treatment, keeps the plan constantly in view…

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The God in whose hands are all our days and ways, did cast into my hand one day a book of Martin Luthers; it…

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It clearly follows that to make men moral it is necessary to make their social environment moral. And that can be done in only…

Mikhail Bakunin

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Importunity is a condition of prayer. We are to press the matter, not with vain repetitions, but with urgent repetitions. We repeat, not to…

Edward McKendree Bounds

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The so-called evils are evils only in relation to a certain thing, and that which is evil in relation to a certain existing thing,…

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Experiences in order to be educative must lead out into an expanding world of subject matter, a subject matter of facts or information and…

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