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“Public service must be more than doing a job efficiently and honestly. It must be a complete dedication to the people and to the nation.”
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“I did a lot of things that I regretted and I certainly paid for my mistakes. You have to go and ask for forgiveness and it wasn't until I really started doing good and doing right, by other people as well as myself, that I really started to feel that guilt go away. So I don't have a problem going to sleep at night.”
Source : The ABC NEWS Interview, abcnews.go.com. September 29, 2006.
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“For some reason, that I can’t really explain, at the beginning of Radiolab, it always felt like life or death. Even though it was just a radio show. Even though no one was listening. And I am not quite sure why… but it may have to do with that radical uncertainty you feel when you are trying to work without a template.”
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“There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast.”
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“Knightly love is blent with reverence As heavenly air is blent with heavenly blue.”
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“Every time we've moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block, and try something new.”
Source : Thomas J. Watson (1963). “A business and its beliefs: the ideas that helped build IBM.”
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“Father, forgive them,' said Jesus, 'for they know not what they do' -- People of good sense whoever you may be, I will add, do not listen to them, for they know not what they say.”
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“Only cream and SOBs rise to the top.”
Source : Al Neuharth (1992). “Confessions of an S.O.B.”, Signet