"The adjacent possible is a kind of shadow……" — Steven Johnson

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• I just go about my life. I'm a mom, I drive an SUV, I go to the grocery store every… — Diablo Cody
• It is obviously easier, for the short run, to draw cheap labor from adjacent pools of poverty...than to find it… — George F. Kennan
• My soul gave me good counsel, teaching me to love. Love was for me a delicate thread stretched between two… — Rumi
• The aeroplane should open a fruitful occupation for women. I see no reason they cannot realize handsome incomes by carrying… — Harriet Quimby
• Daily hope is vital, since the ‘Winter Quarters’ of our lives are not immediately adjacent to our promised land either.… — Neal A. Maxwell
• Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon – it is the very heart of painting. Repeated experiments with… — Josef Albers
• With calm, knowledgeable precision, Daniel Ziblatt wades into the adjacent swamps of federalism and nineteenth-century European history, emerging with hands… — Charles Tilly
• The Spaniards are perfectly right to govern these barbarians of the New World and adjacent islands; they are in prudence,… — Juan Gines de Sepulveda
• As you craft a plan to expand to adjacent markets, don't disrupt: Avoid competition as much as possible. — Peter Thiel
• The clouds were flying fast, the wind was coming up in gusts, banging some neighboring shutters that had broken loose,… — Charles Dickens
• Where there are children, people become neighbors; they don't merely hold property adjacent to one another. — Diana Trilling
• We can build new housing while preserving the quality and character of adjacent residential districts and ensuring infill development strengthens… — Gavin Newsom

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