"Bosses: You make your living going to meetings. Hence any meeting that does not bubble and incite enthusiasm is a forever-lost opportunity."

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“If not excellence, what? If not excellence now, when?”

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— Erwin Schrödinger

Science1887–1961

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"... the genetic code is in fact literally identical in all animals, plants and bacteria ... All earthly living things are certainly descended from a single ancestor."

— Richard Dawkins

Science1941

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"The truth is that the universe has been answering you all of your life, but you cannot receive the answers unless you are awake."

— Rhonda Byrne

Psychology1951

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"My first lesson in relativity: ..we had a still life set-up to paint. Suddenly I saw that the pitcher was so big and the glass was so big. From that time on everything was all right."

— Mark Tobey

painting1890–1976

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