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“For me, one of the highlights of being in the private equity world is that you need to learn a lot and very quickly about different businesses. So it's always a continuing learning experience where you can apply what you know, of course, by way of judgment and by way of numerical analysis. You're always investing in new businesses, which is a learning experience in itself. I think that is a wonderful thing and I think it makes for intellectual challenge and for continued personal growth. That, for me, is the highlight of this job.”
Source : The Harbus Interview, www.harbus.org. February 2, 2004. 
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“Unfortunately our children today seem to spend less and less time with their overworked parents, and so they draw more information about the world from the images on movie and TV screens. The true power of the media is the ability to redefine reality, to alter our expectations about what constitutes normal life. TV and the movies have abused that power by advancing the notion that wholesome, ordinary happiness is impossible.”
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“The discipline learned from putting in time and effort as a child is a skill and a talent you carry with you for the rest of your life in trying to achieve goals.”
Source : "'Getting Real' with Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.
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“I dislike Communism because it is undemocratic, and capitalism because it favors exploitation.”
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“To fly in space is to see the reality of Earth, alone. The experience changed my life and my attitude toward life itself. I am one of the lucky ones.”
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“Process can not be inferred from product any more than a pig can be inferred from a sausage.”
Source : Don Murray (1982). “Learning by Teaching: Selected Articles on Writing and Teaching”, Heinemann Educational Books
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“In most of the world, we have only small remnants of the wildlife that once existed. Africa has the most astonishing wildlife still.”
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“As long as hope does not embrace and transform the thought and action of men, it remains topsy-turvy and ineffective.”
