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"Did you know it is better to drink tea on a mountain than a hill? A hill is not as steep."
-- Aaron Sheinbein

"We are the only analytics company able to help our customers rise above the complexity, cost and inadequacy of today's analytics landscape, finding answers to the toughest challenges, providing answers that will push the world forward."
-- Oliver Ratzesberger

"As long as we work together, with both urgency and determination, there are no limits to what we can achieve."
-- Paul Allen

"Yesterday's successes are just a springboard for tomorrow's needs."
-- Kathleen Pierce

"It does not make sense to hire smart people and then tell them what to do. We hire smart people so they can tell us what to do."
-- Steve Jobs

"If you are honest and fair as you can be, not only in business but in life, things will work out."
-- Kate Spade

"You go out there and show the best story you can as best you can. If it's interesting to you, hopefully it's interesting to others. If you don't make television like that, it's pandering."
-- Anthony Bourdain

"A really carelessly made burger by a large cynical large company, the contempt implicit in that transaction can really send me into a spiral of depression that will last for day."
-- Anthony Bourdain

"To my children: Never make fun of having to help me with computer stuff. I taught you how to use a spoon."
-- Sue Fitzmaurice

"Whatever drives your passion, be the last to accept the notion that the world you inherit cannot be improved. Be the last to accept the excuse that says that’s just how things are done here."
-- Tim Cook

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The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting.

-- Amanda Cross

Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

-- Bernard Berenson

Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do so.

-- Bertrand Russell

All that counts in life is intention.

-- Andrea Bocelli

In the end, if you wanted to find one sentence, it became impossible for Kevin Rudd's colleagues to deal with him effectively and that's why he was removed and that's why in my view Julia Gillard remains the best person to take the Government and the nation forward.

-- Stephen Smith

You will have bad times, but they will always wake you up to the stuff you weren't paying attention to.

-- Robin Williams

Efficiency is intelligent laziness.

-- Alcoholics Anonymous Prayer

[F]or academic men to be happy, the universe would have to take shape. All of philosophy has no other goal: it is a matter of giving a frock coat to what is, a mathematical frock coat. On the other hand, affirming that the universe resembles nothing and is only formless amounts to saying that the universe is something like a spider or spit.

-- Battaille

Feeding the starving poor only increases their number.

-- Ben Bova

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