"“Look,” I said. “Something that needs your attention. Over there. Away from here."

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“When you control communication, you can hide anything you want.”

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"I say all the time, if I sell that to you, you pay me for 3 colors. And I sell you 4, I betray you. Not to cheat you, but to pet you. You see I betray you in a positive way. I make you see more than t…"

— Josef Albers

Education1888–1976

#leadership

"Today, after eighteen years of defeat, the book of your domination is again opened, and your first act awakens every unhappy memory, and threatens to destroy the confidence which your professions of p…"

— James A. Garfield

Politics1831–1881

#time

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— George Kelly (psychologist)

Psychology1905–1967

#science

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— Dylan Thomas

Literature1914–1953

#Human Nature