"Let me first say that I don't think the millennium target of cutting global poverty in half is an impossible or abstract target. I think it is a real and achievable goal."

-- Gro Harlem Brundtland

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“A dance performance is rather like going out into a battlefield. You have to hold the attention of as many as five to 10,000 people a lot of whom do not follow your language.”
“...The war (WWI) cost your Uncle Sam $52 billion. $39 billion was expended in the actual war period. This expenditure yielded $16 billion in profits.”
“They eat, they drink, and in communion sweet Quaff immortality and joy.”
“It is not so much where my motivation comes from but rather how it manages to survive.”
“Nobody can see into the future. Nobody knows what going to go on.”
“It's all about new techniques -- simplifying old techniques, and consolidating steps. Making things go faster, but not worse.”

Source : "Martha Stewart Geeks Out for Wired's Annual How To Guide". Wired interview, www.wired.com. July 24, 2007.
“originality" is everyone's aim, and novel techniques are as much prized as new scientific discoveries. [T.S.] Eliot states it with surprising naÃ¯vetÃ©: "It is exactly as wasteful for a poet to do what has been done already as for a biologist to rediscover Mendel's discoveries.”
“Power in a corporation becomes residual and dwells in the background. It is the ability to exercise nice matters of judgment.”

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