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Mark Twain Writer, Humorist
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"It is our nature to conform; it is a force which not many can successfully resist. What is its seat? The inborn requirement of self-approval."

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June Jordan Poet, Activist
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"As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words. I love the infinite evidence and change and requirements and possibilities of language."

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Bill Gates Business Magnate, Philanthropist
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"Intermittency [in availability for wind and solar] changes the economics, particularly this requirement that the power company at all times be able to require power. That's large."

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Seth Godin Author, Entrepreneur
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"The problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent your own method, to find a new way."

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Mark Cuban Entrepreneur, Investor
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"Sales is the most important aspect of a company, which in turn is about how well you treat your customer and stay ahead of your customer's requirements."

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J. K. Rowling Novelist, Screenwriter
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"Room of Requirement, of course! Surpassed itself, hasn't it? the Carrows were chasing me, and I knew I had just one chance for a hideout: I managed to get through the door and this is what I found! Well, it wasn't exactly like this when I arrived, it was a load smaller, there was only one hammock and just Gryffindor hangings. But it's expanded as more and more of the D.A. have arrived."

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Joseph Stalin Politician, Revolutionary
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"It was necessary, temporarily, to limit certain requirements, accumulate necessary means, strain forces. We acted precisely in this way and built a socialist society."

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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
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"The basic principle, rarely violated, is that what conflicts with the requirements of power and privilege does not exist."

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John Robbins Author, Activist
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"Adding last-minute features, whether in response to competitive pressure, as a developer's pet feature, or on the whim of management, causes more bugs in software than almost anything else."

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