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• Every band needs it's own special chemistry. And Bez was a very good chemist.

  Tony Wilson

  Special, Band, Chemistry

  "Fictional character: Tony Wilson". "24 Hour Party People", www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• What may appear as truth to one person will often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry the seeker. When there is honest effort, it will be realised that what appears to be different truths are like apparently different countless leaves of the same tree.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Healing, Worry, Effort

  "Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi".

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• What business strategy is all about-what distinguishes it from all other kinds of business planning-is, in a word, competitive advantage. Without competitors there would be no need for strategy, for the sole purpose of strategic planning is to enable the company to gain, as efficiently as possible, a sustainable edge over its competitors.

  Kenichi Ohmae

  Gains, Would Be, Purpose

  Kenichi Ohmae (1982). “The Mind Of The Strategist: The Art of Japanese Business”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• Music is something I must do, business is something I need to do, and Africa is something I have to do. That's the way it breaks down in my life.

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  Way, Breaking Down, Music Is

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• Africa doesn't need strongmen, it needs strong institutions.

  Barack Obama

  Strong, Institutions

  Barack Obama's speech to the Ghanaian Parliament at Accra International Conference Center in Accra, Ghana, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. July 11, 2009.

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• Why did Africa let Europe cart away millions of Africa's souls from the continent to the four corners of the wind? How could Europe lord it over a continent ten times its size? Why does needy Africa continue to let its wealth meet the needs of those outside its borders and then follow behind with hands outstretched for a loan of the very wealth it let go? How did we arrive at this, that the best leader is the one that knows how to beg for a share of what he has already given away at the price of a broken tool? Where is the future of Africa?

  Ngugi wa Thiong'o

  Letting Go, Wind, Hands

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• An investor needs to do very few things right as long as he or she avoids big mistakes.

  Warren Buffett

  Mistake, Long, Investing

  "3 Insights on The Future from Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger" by Taylor Pearson, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 19, 2016.

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• You need to eat, but you don't really need to eat filet mignon every night or buy bottles of champagne at a thousand a pop.

  Gene Simmons

  Inspirational, Night, Bottles

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• A well-designed and humane interface does not have to be split into beginner and expert subsystems.

  Jef Raskin

  Simplicity, Design, Experts

  "The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems".

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• All that you need in order to have total happiness, fulfillment, and love in your life you already have right now, whoever you are, wherever you are.

  Wayne Dyer

  Motivational, Order, And Love

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “Staying on the Path: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.52, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• An excellent weapon and luck had been on my side. To be successful, the best fighter pilot needs both.

  Adolf Galland

  Successful, Luck, Pilots

  Adolf Galland (1954). “The first and the last: the rise and fall of the German fighter forces, 1938-1945”

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• Every soul is a melody which needs renewing.

  Stephane Mallarme

  Teacher, Soul, Melody

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• There would be no need for the women's movement if the church and Bible hadn't abused them

  Leo Booth

  Bible, Church, Would Be

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• Thank God for the tough times. They are the reason you are there - to be the leader. If everything was going well, the people wouldn't need you!

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, People, Tough Times

  John C. Maxwell (2015). “The Leadership Handbook: 26 Critical Lessons Every Leader Needs”, p.138, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Humanity needs this technology as much as it needs all other technologies that have now connected us and set before us the terrifying and wondrous possibility of actually becoming one human race.

  Krista Tippett

  Peace, Technology, Becoming One

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• We have an extraordinary God. God is a mighty God, but this God needs you. When someone is hungry, bread doesn't come down from heaven. When God wants to feed the hungry, you and I must feed the hungry. And now God wants peace in the world.

  Desmond Tutu

  Peace, Heaven, World

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• We need only take our heads out of the sand to see clearly that interventionism not only has failed to provide the promised something-for-nothing, but has led to all sorts of undesirable consequences. Indeed, many are just beginning to realize that we are moving towards disaster even though we have been on a wrong heading for decades.

  Leonard Read

  Moving, Gold, Realizing

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• I can't remember the exact quote but when I used to trade and Mr. Volcker was Fed chairman, he said something like 'gold is my enemy, I'm always watching what gold is doing', we need to think why he made a statement like that. If you're a central banker or one of the congressmen or senators, watch what gold is doing because this is a no-confidence vote in fiscal and dollar policy.

  Rick Santelli

  Thinking, Enemy, Gold

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• Markets are designed to allow individuals to look after their private needs and to pursue profit. It's really a great invention, and I wouldn't underestimate the value of that. But they're not designed to take care of social needs.

  George Soros

  Great Inventions, Looks, Investing

  Interview with Mark Shapiro, September 05, 2000.

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• When you look at a commodities market you need hedgers and speculators. If you don't have one, you don't have a market. That's how it works.

  T. Boone Pickens

  Looks, Commodity, Speculators

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• Anytime destruction of another is needed in order to advance one's own aims or goals, then the goals need to be reevaluated.

  David White

  Order, Goal, Deep Thought

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• Having nerves and feeling the pressure just gets you focused and gets your concentration level where it needs to be. I harness that nervous energy into a positive way.

  Tom Lehman

  Golf, Feelings, Nerves

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• You need space to try things and create. It takes a long time to recalibrate if you let people pull at you all the time. A lot of stress comes from reacting to stuff. You have to keep a certain guard [up], if you're a creative person.

  Pete Cashmore

  Stress, Space, Long

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• Companies need to have a lot more flexibility with their people... . If somebody wants to golf around the world for two months, okay, well, maybe on an unpaid basis, let them do it. That sort of flexibility I think is incredibly important because most of our time, we spend at work.

  Richard Branson

  Golf, Thinking, Two

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• Innovation is hard because solving problems people didn't know they had & building something no one needs look identical at first.

  Aaron Levie

  People, Innovation, Looks

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