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I am affected by what is around. I don't think many people would admit that. ↗

— Nuno Bettencourt

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I'm passing on a tradition of which I am part. There's a long line of poets who went before me, and I'm another one, and I'm hoping to pass that on to other younger, or newer, poets than myself. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

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This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time. ↗

— Aneurin Bevan

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Amazon.com strives to be the e-commerce destination where consumers can find and discover anything they want to buy online. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

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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

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Percentage margins don't matter. What matters always is dollar margins: the actual dollar amount. Companies are valued not on their percentage margins, but on how many dollars they actually make, and a multiple of that. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

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There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you're good at and extend out from your skills. Or determine what your customers need and work backward, even if it requires learning new skills. Kindle is an example of working backward. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

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What we want to be is something completely new. There is no physical analog for what Amazon.com is becoming. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

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In nonviolence you must go full steam ahead, if you want the good to come speedily you must go about it with vigor. ↗

— Vinoba Bhave

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Though the names karma yoga and sannyasa are different, the truth at the heart of both is the same. ↗

— Vinoba Bhave

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