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If you only do things where you know the answer in advance, your company goes away. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

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As history since Hiroshima shows, the best, perhaps the only, way to curb war is to deter it with such overwhelming force as to turn it from a struggle into suicide. ↗

— Martin Van Creveld

#curb #deter #force #hiroshima #history

Foreign policy is like human relations, only people know less about each other. ↗

— Joe Biden

#each #foreign #foreign policy #human #human relations

Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#commonly #her #invisible #namely #patron

Perhaps the only thing in my favor is that I am very tenacious. I don't take 'no' very well. ↗

— Kathryn Bigelow

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When you're in the muck you can only see muck. If you somehow manage to float above it, you still see the muck but you see it from a different perspective. And you see other things too. That's the consolation of philosophy. ↗

— David Cronenberg

#consolation #different #different perspective #float #manage

You only have so much money to shoot a movie with. ↗

— Kathryn Bigelow

#movie #much #only #shoot #you

Only as we live, think, feel, and work outside the home, do we become humanly developed, civilized, socialized. ↗

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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You know, people come up with formulas who are uncreative. They can't picture something different so they can only go by something that's laid out for them. ↗

— Joseph Bologna

#different #formulas #go #know #laid

I have always argued that change becomes stressful and overwhelming only when you've lost any sense of the constancy of your life. You need firm ground to stand on. From there, you can deal with that change. ↗

— Richard Nelson Bolles

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