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Wilbur Smith Author
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"I'm not a good father and they're not children any more; the eldest is in his fifties. My relationship with their mothers broke down and, because of what the law was, they went with their mothers and were imbued with their mothers' morality in life and they were not my people any more."

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Thomas Huxley Biologist, Anthropologist
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"There is far too much of the feeding-bottle in education and young people ought to be supplied with good intellectual food and then left to help themselves."

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Toni Morrison Novelist, Essayist
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"I don't think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless they're black or poor. The question is not morality, the question is money. That's what we're upset about."

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Sheryl Sandberg Business Executive, Author
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"We're focused on doing one thing incredibly well. If you look at other companies, all of these companies are doing a lot of different things but we're still, as we grow, doing exactly one thing."

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Sheryl Sandberg Business Executive, Author
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"For any of us in this room today, let's start out by admitting we're lucky. We don't live in the world our mothers lived in, our grandmothers lived in, where career choices for women were so limited."

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Sheryl Sandberg Business Executive, Author
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"There is no straight path from your seat today to where you are going. Don't try to draw that line. You will not just get it wrong, you'll miss big opportunities. And I mean big-like the Internet. Careers are not ladders, those days are long gone, but jungle gyms. Don't just move up and down, don't just look up, look backwards, sideways around corners. Your career and your life will have starts and stops and zigs and zags. Don't stress out about the white space-the path you can't draw- because there in lies both the surprises and the opportunities."

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Sheryl Sandberg Business Executive, Author
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"Social media has created a historical shift from the historically powerful to the historically powerless. Now everyone has a voice."

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Stephen Covey Author, Speaker
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"In many situations involving service recovery - the problem itself became the catalyst for the creation of even greater trust as the companies took the issues head-on and worked through the difficult problem in a way that restored confidence."

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