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“Information is a negotiator's greatest weapon.”
Source : Victor Kiam (1987). “Going for It: How to Succeed As an Entrepreneur”, Signet
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“It is not therefore the business of philosophy, in our present situation in the universe, to attempt to take in at once, in one view, the whole scheme of nature; but to extend, with great care and circumspection, our knowledge, by just steps, from sensible things, as far as our observations or reasonings from them will carry us, in our enquiries concerning either the greater motions and operations of nature, or her more subtile and hidden works. In this way Sir Isaac Newton proceeded in his discoveries.”
Source : Colin Maclaurin (1750). “An Account of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophical Discoveries. 2. Ed”, p.20
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“At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas of which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question. It is not exactly forbidden to say this, that or the other, but it is "not done" to say it... Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing, either in the popular press or in the high-brow periodicals.”
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“It will make the Tea Party look like a tea party.”
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“Life is full of trials and tribulations. It's dramatic when you don't treat people right when you're in the tribulations, but I know now how to get out of it. You have to make a decision to say 'No more', and then you know what to do when the trials happen.”
Source : "Mary J Blige: 'Whitney Houston's funeral freaked me out'". Interview with Caroline Sullivan, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2013. 
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“Don't expect other nations to have a democracy like ours - they don't have enough lawyers.”
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“Humility is simply believing and accepting what God says about us, and God says that we are anything but worthless.”
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“I was just watching "So You Think You Can Dance," flipping channels, and I was like man, I could never do that.”
