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Stand not too near the rich man lest he destroy thee - and not too far away lest he forget thee. ↗

— Aneurin Bevan

#destroy #far #far away #forget #lest

Because, you know, resilience - if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you'd be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn't a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

#creates #depressed #every #gold #gone

I think the definition of a book is changing. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

#changing #definition #i #i think #think

I'm a big fan of all-you-can-eat plans, because they're simpler for customers. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

#big #big fan #customers #fan #i

It is very difficult to get people to focus on the most important things when you're in boom times. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

#difficult #focus #get #important #important things

We've committed many war crimes in Vietnam - but I'll tell you something interesting about that. We were committing war crimes in World War II, before the Nuremberg trials were held and the principle of war crimes was stated. ↗

— George Wald

#before #committed #committing #crimes #held

People forget already how much utility they get out of the Internet - how much utility they get out of e-mail, how much utility they get out of even simple things like brochureware online. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

#e-mail #even #forget #get #how

The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

#human #human brain #incredible #machine

The one thing that offends me the most is when I walk by a bank and see ads trying to convince people to take out second mortgages on their home so they can go on vacation. That's approaching evil. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

#approaching #bank #convince #evil #go

The most disastrous phenomenon of the current situation is the factor that imperialism is employing for its own ends all the powers of the proletariat, all of its institutions and weapons, which its fighting vanguard has created for its war of liberation. ↗

— Clara Zetkin

#current #current situation #disastrous #employing #ends