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“You can never meet everyone's expectations. It's hard enough to meet your own.”
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“There are insistent calls for autonomy, appeals for a new resource ethic based on the tradition of the commons, demands for the reinstatement of cultural primacy over corporate hegemony, and a rising demand for radical transparency in politics and corporate decision making. It has been said that environmentalism failed as a movement, or worse yet, died. It is the other way around. Everyone on earth will be an environmentalist in the not too distant future, driven there by necessity and experience.”
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“Industrial capitalism brought representative democracy, but with a weak public mandate and inert citizenry. The digital age offers a new democracy based on public deliberation and active citizenship.”
Source : "Don Tapscott: Transforming Capitalism Won’t Happen Without Leadership". www.thestar.com. May 17, 2013. 
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“O fool, what else is sleep but chill death's likeness?”
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“The man has a curious inborn conviction of his own superiority which is quite unshakeable. All his life he has bullied and browbeaten those around him by his high-and-mightiness and his atrocious temper. As a boy he terrorized his entire family by his tantrums, when, if thwarted, he would throw himself on the floor and yell till he went blue in the face. It has been much the same ever since. Everyone's terrified of his rages. He has only to start grinding his teeth, and people fall flat before him.”
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“We have built no temple but the Capitol. We consult no common oracle but the Constitution.”
Source : Rufus Choate, Samuel Gilman Brown (1862). “Memoir. Lectures and addresses”, p.345
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“Tennis can be a grind and there's always the danger of going stale if you think about it too much. You can get embittered if you train too hard and have nothing else on your mind. You have to be able to relax between matches and between tournaments.”
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“I don't care what you think, your junk does not have special abilities.”
