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

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

“Read deep! Read often! Out-READ the 'Competition'!!!”

“The Big Four: Out-read 'em. Out-study 'em. Out-present 'em. Out-listen 'em.”

“What is my personal strategy for the next 10 hours? Who can I talk with or what can I volunteer for to learn something new?”

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"Farewell, sir. You did, indeed, fight the good fight and get into a lot of good trouble. You served God and humanity well. Thank you. Take your rest."

— Bernice King

Politics1963

#Human Nature

"An integral approach is based on one basic idea: no human mind can be 100% wrong. Or, we might say, nobody is smart enough to be wrong all the time. And that means, when it comes to deciding which app…"

— Ken Wilber

Psychology1949

#health

"Although every part of the human frame has been fashioned by the same Divine hand and exhibits the most marvellous and beneficent adaptions for the use of men, the human eye stands pre-eminent above t…"

— David Brewster

Science1781–1868

#art

"The sixth pre-Christian century—the miraculous century of Buddha, Confucius and Lâo-Tse, of the Ionian philosophers and Pythagoras—was a turning point for the human species. A March breeze seemed to b…"

— Arthur Koestler

Journalism1905–1983

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