"Everyone in a successful organization must be willing and ready to risk. Risk is like change; it's not a choice."

-- Max De Pree

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“The story of the redemption will not stand examination. That man should redeem himself from the sin of eating an apple by committing a murder on Jesus Christ, is the strangest system of religion ever set up.”
“The British use a system where the profits a corporation reports to shareholders is what they pay taxes on. Whereas in America we require corporations to keep two sets of books, one for shareholders and one for the IRS, and the IRS records are secret. For publicly-traded companies, the British system would tend to align the interests of the government with the interests of the company because the company wants to report the biggest possible profit. Though, all wealthy countries have high taxes as wealth requires lots of common goods, from clean water to public education to a justice system.”

Source : "Our Indefensible Tax System". Interview With Jonathan Stein, www.motherjones.com. April 11, 2006.
“Murdering someone would surely prove that you are capable of killing, but it wouldn't be the most reasonable way to understand why you shouldn't do it.”
“The point of what I do is that it doesn't really matter what a book or a story is as long it moves you, informs you, challenges you, entertains you, or changes you.”
“Letters are just pieces of paper," I said. "Burn them, and what stays in your heart will stay; keep them, and what vanishes will vanish.”
“You can be special without being extraordinary.”

Source : Nancy Werlin (2011). “Extraordinary”, p.145, Penguin
“If we can stay with the tension of opposites long enough â€”sustain it, be true to itâ€”we can sometimes become vessels within which the divine opposites come together and give birth to a new reality.”
“You can be a catalyst for change but change never really entirely happens just because of one guy.”

Source : "Robert Griffin III Prepares For NFL Draft, Talks Peyton Manning From Super Bowl 2012". Interview with Chris Greenberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 02, 2012.

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