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"Doing something is better than doing nothing. Do not let the fact that you do not know the perfect way, make you do nothing at all."
-- Justin Halverson

"My identity is not my obstacle. My identity is my superpower. Because the truth is, I am what the world looks like. You are what the world looks like."
-- America Ferrera

"There is never a day when there is less data being generated in the world."
-- Steve McMillan

"If police are trying to convince the public they are not guilty of displaying excessive force, it is probably not a good idea to repeatedly display excessive force on national television."
-- John Oliver

"A leader is best when people barely know he exists. Not so good when people obey and acclaim him. Worse when they despise him. But a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say we did it ourselves."
-- Lao Tzu

"Standing upright is not a talent because a brainless wooden beam can stand upright too! The important thing is to be flexible!"
-- Mehmet Murat Ildan

"Leveraging insights from data has never been more important, and Teradata is leading the way in helping global enterprises unlock real business value from this asset."
-- Steve McMillan

"A well-spent day brings happy sleep."
-- Leonardo da Vinci

"Walking is the perfect way of moving if you want to see into the life of things. It is the one way of freedom. If you go to a place on anything but your own feet you are taken there too fast, and miss a thousand delicate joys that were waiting for you by the wayside."
-- Elizabeth von Arnim

"To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art."
-- Francois de la Rochefouchauld

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...One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.

-- Albert Einstein

You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are.

-- Anna Quindlen

Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. When we really listen to people there is an alternating current, and this recharges us so that we never get tired of each other. We are constantly being re-created.

-- Brenda Ueland

Life does not count by years. Some suffer a lifetime in a day, and so grow old between the rising and the setting of the sun.

-- Augusta Jane Evans

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

-- Bertrand Russell

We didn't take a broad enough view of our responsibility, and that was a big mistake. It was my mistake, and I'm sorry. I started Facebook, I run it, and I'm responsible for what happens here.

-- Mark Zuckerberg

Risk is essential. There is not growth of inspiration in staying within what is safe and comfortable. Once you find out what you do best, why not try something else

-- Alex Noble

There is a certain impertinance in allowing oneself to be burned for an opinion.

-- Anatole France

In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.

-- Alfred Edward Housman

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