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"A wise man will make more opportunities, than he finds."

— Francis Bacon

Literature1909–1992

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"We’re seeing a change in what leadership means. It used to be the person or company with the most money; now it’s about the person with the best ideas. A single person with a great idea and limited re…"

— Grant Schreiber

Business1967

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"The user of the electric light -- or a hammer, or a language, or a book -- is the content. As such, there is a total metamorphosis of the user by the interface. It is the metamorphosis that I consider…"

— Marshall McLuhan

Philosophy1911–1980

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"Till now we Maharashtrians kept saying that Shivaji Utsav is only a historical commemoration and it has no political colour. But the festival that we have organized here in Nashik is both historical a…"

— Vinayak Damodar Savarkar

Politics1883–1966

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