A book, I was taught long ago in English class, is a living and breathing document that grows … - Malcolm Gladwell

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Humans are lonely creators. Humans always desire and yearn for others. Humans thirst for ambitions. When things don't go their way, they start thirsting for it even more.

Malcolm Gladwell

A book, I was taught long ago in English class, is a living and breathing document that grows richer with each new reading.

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Success has to do with deliberate practice. Practice must be focused, determined, and in an environment where there's feedback.

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It takes ten thousand hours to truly master anything. Time spent leads to experience; experience leads to proficiency; and the more proficient you are the more valuable you'll be.

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Innovators have to be open. They have to be able to imagine things that others cannot and be willing to challenge their own preconceptions. They also need to be conscientious. An innovator who has brilliant ideas but lacks the discipline and persistence to carry them out is merely a dreamer. . . But crucially, innovators need to be disagreeable. . . They are people willing to take social risks-to do things that others might disapprove of.

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That's your responsibility as a person, as a human being - to constantly be updating your positions on as many things as possible. And if you don't contradict yourself on a regular basis, then you're not thinking.

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The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.

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It's not proper for a professor to go before a class and promote one party or another. That's not academic scholarship.

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I don't see women and think of them as competition or with judgment. Women really move me. I feel connected to all kinds of women. I am angry because I think we've been mistreated throughout history in different countries, including America. I admire women.

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Julian Assange

I made an asylum application to Ecuador in this embassy, because of the U. S. extradition case, and the result was that after a month, I was successful in my asylum application. The embassy since then has been surrounded by police: quite an expensive police operation which the British government admits to spending more than £12. 6 million.

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Khalil Gibran

And if you would know God, be not therefore a solver of riddles. Rather look about you and you shall see Him playing with your children. And look into space; you shall see Him walking in the cloud, outstretching His arms in the lightning and descending in rain. You shall see Him smiling in flowers, then rising and waving His hands in trees.

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