"Trust is a powerful accelerator to performance and when trust goes up, speed also goes up while cost comes down - producing what we call a trust dividend."
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"Darwinian evolution may be the most truthful and powerful idea ever generated by Western Science, but if we continue to illustrate our conviction with an indefensible, unsupported, entirely speculative, and basically rather silly story, then we are clothing a thing of beauty in rags - and we should be ashamed, "for the apparel oft proclaims the man."
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"Skepticism's bad rap arises from the impression that, however necessary the activity, it can only be regarded as a negative removal of false claims. Not so... Proper debunking is done in the interest of an alternate model of explanation, not as a nihilistic exercise. The alternate model is rationality itself, tied to moral decency--the most powerful joint instrument for good that our planet has ever known."
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"Science is not 'organized common sense'; at its most exciting, it reformulates our view of the world by imposing powerful theories against the ancient, anthropocentric prejudices that we call intuition."
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"It's a mystery. That's the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it's mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously."
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"Roland could not understand why anyone would want cocaine or any other illegal drug, for that matter, in a world where such a powerful one as sugar was so plentiful and cheap."
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"Having talent is fantastic. Having confidence is even more important."
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"Big people don't make people feel small."
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"You are also what you say to yourself all day long."
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"When you see yourself as a powerful creator of your conditions, you'll see opportunities to get to your goals - and dreams - all around you."
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"I once read that people who study others are wise but those who study themselves are enlightened."
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"Sow a character, you reap your destiny."
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"To breathe properly is to live properly."
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"You were born awesome. Please don't die average."
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"Sometimes success isn't about making the right decision, it's more about making some decision."
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"Dreamers are mocked as impractical. The truth is they are the most practical, as their innovations lead to progress and a better way of life for all of us."
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"We don't understand what photography is doing. We don't understand the power of its rhetoric. We don't understand why the Provoke photographers showed Tokyo city as a ghastly and alien city when it was really going through this period of mega-capitalist growth. It's a very, very, very powerful force, the photograph. People ask me why it has such an ability to captivate us. And I just don't know."
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"The great dynamic success of capitalism had given us a powerful weapon in our battle against Communism-money."
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"But when the group is literally capable of changing our perceptions, and when to stand alone is to activate primitive, powerful, and unconscious feelings of rejection, then the health of these institutions seems far more vulnerable than we think."
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"Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone."
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