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If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience. ↗

— Mao Zedong

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We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting. ↗

— Mao Zedong

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We have just started, and if you compare the number of people using Skype to the number using a telephone network around the world, we're still just starting. ↗

— Niklas Zennstrom

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It's a question of spreading the available energy, aerobic and anaerobic, evenly over four minutes. If you run one part too fast, you pay a price. If you run another part more slowly your overall time is slower. ↗

— Roger Bannister

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My athleticism was really the core to social acceptance, because in those days the overwhelming number of students came from more of a public school background than I did. ↗

— Roger Bannister

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My kids and my family are number one; I enjoy them the most. ↗

— Jami Gertz

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The number of people writing poems is vast, and their reasons for doing so are many, that much can be surmised from the stacks of submissions. ↗

— Mark Strand

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And Michael likes to read a lot. People don't realize that about him but he reads a number of books per week and he's fascinated just about every subject. ↗

— David Gest

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I think George just nailed the whole thing, the whole time period, the whole look and feel of what that newsroom was like. I did a lot of research for the role and believe me, it's all pretty genuine, down to the very last cigarette butt. ↗

— David Strathairn

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There are always lessons that can be learned from another manufacturer. You can learn from their successes and from their mistakes also. But you cannot replicate; you can only learn. ↗

— Carlos Ghosn

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