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• Doctors...from the Office of Info. Tech. at Harvard U.(:)...Their appraisal of 46 surgical or anesthesia breakthroughs...suggested...only 13% were highly preferred (and)...in nearly half the cases the new therapy was no better than the therapy it replaced. ...About 12% of the innovations increased complications.

  Jeffrey Bland

  Dark, Doctors, Office

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• I think if someone else other than Reagan, someone less of a hardliner, had been in power then the breakthrough in ending the Cold War would not have happened.

  Eduard Shevardnadze

  War, Thinking, Cold

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• We are always saying to ourself.. we have to innovate. We got to come up with that breakthrough... we're only paid for breakthroughs.

  Bill Gates

  Business, Come Up, Paid

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• The quality of American patents has been deteriorating for years; they are increasingly issued for products and processes that are not truly innovative - things like the queuing system for Netflix, which was patented in 2003. Yes, it makes renting movies a snap, but was it really a breakthrough deserving patent protection?

  Robert Pozen

  Years, Quality, Patents

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• After a breakthrough year for America, our economy is growing and creating jobs at the fastest pace since 1999.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Years, Creating

  Twitter post from Jan 21, 2015

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• Even in the dark times between experimental breakthroughs, there always continues a steady evolution of theoretical ideas, leading almost imperceptibly to changes in previous beliefs.

  Steven Weinberg

  Change, Dark, Science

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• It's not that we need to form new organizations. It's simply that we have to awaken to new ways of thinking. I believe it makes no sense to spend a lot of time attacking the current realities. It is time to create the new models that have in them the complexity that makes the older systems obsolete. And to the extent that we can do that, and do that quickly, I think we can provide what will be necessary for a major breakthrough for the future.

  Don Edward Beck

  Believe, Reality, Thinking

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• All I need is the breakthrough. The joint-venture for my clothing. Same as Stella McCartney has.

  Kanye West

  Needs, Venture, Joints

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• Breakthrough Advertising is not about building better mousetraps. It is, however, about building larger mice - and then building a terrifying fear of them in your customers.

  Eugene Schwartz

  Advertising, Building, Mice

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• I believe that the major operating ethic in American society right now, the most universal want and need is to be on TV. I've been on TV. I could be on TV all the time if I wanted to. But most people will never get on TV. It has to be a real breakthrough for them. And trouble is, people will do almost anything to get on it. You know, confess to crimes they haven't committed. You don't exist unless you're on TV. Yeah, it's a validation process.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Real, Believe, Validation

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Ancient Gonzo Wisdom”, p.228, Pan Macmillan

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• How do you discover a need that nobody yet knows about? This is where the product breakthroughs come through.

  Donald A. Norman

  Needs, Knows, Products

  Donald A. Norman (2005). “Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things”, p.70, Basic Books

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• To save the planet, we do not need miraculous technical breakthroughs, or vast amounts of capital. Essentially we need a radical change in our thinking and behaviour.

  Ted Trainer

  Thinking, Needs, Behaviour

  Ted Trainer (2007). “Renewable Energy Cannot Sustain a Consumer Society”, p.136, Springer Science & Business Media

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• I always tell people there's nothing greater than a crisis to create a breakthrough. Because that's when we breakthrough usually - most people don't proactively breakthrough - they breakthrough because they have to. And the beauty of crisis is it doesn't feel beautiful, is it melts us down. And when you're melted down you can recast your life in a new way.

  Tony Robbins

  Beautiful, People, Down And

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• We can be creative and generate new breakthroughs, if we're willing to work with ideas from the pool of history - both distant and more recent - despite the potential for our experiments to fail.

  Doug Dawson

  Ideas, Creative, Pool

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• To the Parisians, and especially to the children, all Americans are now 'heros du cinema.' This is particularly disconcerting to sensitive war correspondents, if any, aware, as they are, that these innocent thanks belong to those American combat troops who won the beachhead and then made the breakthrough. There are few such men in Paris.

  A. J. Liebling

  Children, War, Hero

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• The record of the rocks contains very little, other than bacteria and one-celled plants until, about a billion years ago, after some three billion years of invisible progress, a major breakthrough occurred. The first many-celled creatures appeared on earth.

  Robert Jastrow

  Years, Rocks, Progress

  "The Enchanted Loom: Mind in the Universe (Letting the Fossil Record Speak; Life - How Did It Get Here? By Evolution or by Creation?)". Book by Robert Jastrow (p. 23), 1981.

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• The most compelling reason for most people to buy a computer for the home will be to link it to a nationwide communications network. We're just in the beginning stages of what will be a truly remarkable breakthrough for most people - as remarkable as the telephone.

  Steve Jobs

  Communication, Home, Compelling Reason

  "Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs". Interview With David Sheff, reprints.longform.org. February 1985.

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• So as long as I'm a human being and I'm not perfect, I'm able to say I'm having some growing pains. Because in order to sustain where you are once you made such a breakthrough that everyone is looking at you, now everyone is like, 'Ooh, is she gonna make a mistake?' Yes, I'm going to make a mistake. Yes, I'm still gonna do things.

  Mary J. Blige

  Pain, Mistake, Order

  "Mary J. Blige Says She's 'Just Fine' With Her New Album, Losing 'Umbrella' To Rihanna". Interview with Jayson Rodriguez, www.mtv.com. October 10, 2007.

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• I believe the biggest breakthroughs on cancer could come from brilliant researchers based in India.

  Siddhartha Mukherjee

  Cancer, Believe, India

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• It seemed to me that the real philosophical breakthroughs of the 20th century were in terms of the understanding of language. What is language? Where does it come from, how does it work, what does it do?

  Hanif Kureishi

  Real, Philosophical, Understanding

  "When you're writing, you look for conflict" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. November 17, 2003.

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• What you end up seeing when you look at history is that people who have been good at pushing the boundaries of possibility, and exploring those frontiers of good ideas and innovations, have rarely done it in moments of great inspiration. They don't just have a brilliant breakthrough idea out of nowhere and leap ahead of everyone else.

  Steven Johnson

  Inspiration, Ideas, People

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• We are strangely biased, as individuals and media institutions, to focus on big sudden changes, whether good or bad - amazing breakthroughs, such as a new gadget that gets released, or catastrophic failures, like a plane crash.

  Steven Johnson

  Media, Focus, Gadgets

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• I am highly favored by God, I experience great victories, supernatural turnarounds, and miraculous breakthroughs in the midst of great impossibilities.

  DMX

  Victory, Midst, Egotism

  Song: The Prayer V, Album: Grand Champ

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• Ending torture and tyranny in Iraq was not a mistake. Supporting democracy in Iraq is not a mistake. Helping the long-suffering Muslims of Iraq who now seek to live democratically is not a mistake. In the long, long history of the Middle East, this breakthrough may one day be ranked as a dramatic turning point in regional history.

  Michael Novak

  Mistake, Iraq, Long

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• I do enjoy manga but would not consider myself a 'super-fan,' only really connecting with certain works such as 'Lone Wolf and Cub,' or 'Tekkon Kinkreet,' the more breakthrough works, and 'Akira,' to me, is the daddy of them all.

  Gerard Way

  Daddy, Fans, Lone Wolf

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