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Med Jones

Med Jones

God created land, politicians created

God created land, politicians created boundaries. - On globalization
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Voltaire

Voltaire

There are truths which are

There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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Voltaire

Voltaire

God created sex. Priests created

God created sex. Priests created marriage.
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Nicholas Murray Butler

Nicholas Murray Butler

Brigands demand your money or

Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.
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Swami Vivekananda

Swami Vivekananda

Purity,patience, and preserverance are the

Purity,patience, and preserverance are the three essentials to success, and above all love.
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Med Yones

Med Yones

The ways in which senior

The ways in which senior executives allocate, manage and position their new digital assets and knowledge resources will have a strong bearing on the firm's ability to compete successfully in today's global digital economy.
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André Gide

André Gide

Know thyself? A maxim as

Know thyself? A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever observes himself arrests his own development. A caterpillar who wanted to know itself well would never become a butterfly.
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Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill

.... You ask, What is

.... You ask, What is our policy? I will say; "It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us: to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy." You ask, What is our aim? I can answer with one word: Victory - victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.
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Med Jones

Med Jones

The worst thing that could

The worst thing that could happen to any economy is the loss of confidence. - [predicting the US economic crisis]
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Swami Vivekananda

Swami Vivekananda

This world is the great

This world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
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Voltaire

Voltaire

Men are equal; it is

Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

I must decline your invitation

I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement.
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Med Jones

Med Jones

Sustaining high business performance is

Sustaining high business performance is a product of continuous strategic alignment
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Swami Vivekananda

Swami Vivekananda

Three things are necessary to

Three things are necessary to make every man great,every nation great1.Conviction of the powers of goodness.2.Absence of jealousy and suspicion.3.Helping all who are trying to be and do good.
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Eric Nicol

Eric Nicol

Very little is known about

Very little is known about the War of 1812 because the Americans lost it.
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Paul Fussell

Paul Fussell

If you are an author

If you are an author and give one of your books to a member of the upper class, you must never expect him to read it.
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Med Jones

Med Jones

Knowledge networks will revolutionize the

Knowledge networks will revolutionize the global economy. They will change the way we think, learn and work. The prosperity of a nation and its people will be determined to a large degree by how well they can leverage the global knowledge networks to develop their resources, collaborate, innovate and market their products and services.
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David Viscott

David Viscott

To love and be loved

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
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Dan Quayle

Dan Quayle

[The U.S. victory in Gulf

[The U.S. victory in Gulf war was] a stirring victory for the forces of aggression.
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Victor Buono

Victor Buono

My only aversion to vice,

My only aversion to vice, is the price.
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David Viscott

David Viscott

In the end, the only

In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.
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Med Jones

Med Jones

In the Internet age, information

In the Internet age, information is cheap. Education is expensive.
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Dan Quayle

Dan Quayle

Vietnam is a jungle. You

Vietnam is a jungle. You had jungle warfare. Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, you have sand. [There is no need to worry about a protracted war because] from a historical basis, Middle East conflicts do not last a long time.
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Delmore Schwartz

Delmore Schwartz

Even paranoids have real enemies.

Even paranoids have real enemies.
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