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“I believe the root of all evil is abuse of power.”
Source : "Crime does pay". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. May 13, 2001. 
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“Self-conceit is the enemy of progress.”
Source : "The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers". Book by Diogenes Laërtius, Book IV, 50,
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“ll industries have been disrupted and disruption tends to generate gatherings for people to share information. I don't think media are unusual here. Add to that the discovery, or perhaps expansion of the awareness, that events can generate revenue. So now we have companies whose business model is heavily based on events, whether it is Re/code or South by Southwest or many others. Those kinds of gatherings were once more institutionally oriented inside trade associations. Now they have been expanded out.”
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“The face of a woman, whatever be the force or extent of her mind, whatever be the importance of the object she pursues, is always an obstacle or a reason in the story of her life.”
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“Canadians should realise when they are well off under the Monarchy. For the vast majority of Canadians, being a Monarchy is probably the only form of government acceptable to them. I have always been for parliamentary democracy and I think the institution of Monarchy with the Queen heading it all has served Canada well.”
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“What we are looking for is managers who are awake enough to alter the world as they find it, to make it harmonize with what they and their people are trying to accomplish.”
Source : Tom DeMarco (1997). “The deadline: a novel about project management”, Dorset House
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“If it means my death, I don't care, because even death will be a sort of freedom.”
Source : Catherine Fisher (2011). “Incarceron”, p.178, Penguin
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“We often think of choice as a thing. But a choice is not a thing. Our options may be things, but a choice—a choice is an action. It is not just something we have but something we do.”
Source : Greg McKeown (2014). “Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less”, p.35, Random House
