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Peter Drucker Management Consultant, Author
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“The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday's logic.”

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Nelson Mandela Political Leader
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“A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.”

Michel Foucault Philosopher, Social Theorist
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“I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning.”

Marie Curie Physicist, Chemist
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“We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it. It must be done for itself, for the beauty of science, and then there is always the chance that a scientific discovery may become like the radium a benefit for humanity.”

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B. F. Skinner Psychologist, Behaviorist
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“A person who has been punished is not thereby simply less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.”

Winston Churchill Politician, Writer, Historian
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“If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.”

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Pythagoras Philosopher, Mathematician
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“A fool is known by his speech; and a wise man by silence.”

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Jean Piaget Psychologist, Philosopher
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“What we see changes what we know. What we know changes what we see.”

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