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“I never set out to be CEO. I always set out to be a good team member, a good colleague.”
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“I want to write more books, see my first novel made into a film, fight more campaigns, work in more countries. I want to be able to recall experiences that have endured for their pleasure and range and intensity.”
Source : "How I got happy and stayed grumpy" by Alastair Campbell, www.theguardian.com. January 6, 2012.
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“I'm not pro-war. But I think war has been the dominant condition of humankind, and peace has been the anomaly - certainly sustained periods of peace that profit great masses of people - and I think war has worked, even awful hellish wars: worked to staunch fascist aggression in Europe, worked to preserve the Union after secession in the United States, etc. Not always, maybe not often, but to say never is to reject history in favor of a wishful unreality.”
Source : "Ask the Author Live: Philip Gourevitch on Osama Bin Laden". The New Yorker Live Chat, www.newyorker.com. May 4, 2011.
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“A true measure of an entrepreneur / successful-person is how they deal with adversity.”
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“To explore what it would mean to live fully, sensually alive and passionately on purpose, I have to drop my preconceived ideas of who and what I am.”
Source : Dawna Markova (2000). “I Will Not Die An Unlived Life: Reclaiming Passion and Purpose”, p.44, Conari Press
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“Humanism is an approach to life which encourages ethical and fulfilling living on the basis of reason and humanity, and rejects superstition and religion. The most immediate impact of living as a Humanist is that we believe this life is all there is - so what we do and the choices we make really count.”
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“If I’d only known which [photographs] would be very good and liked, I wouldn’t have had to do all the thousands of others.”
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“At the moment, the 4 percent of us in this country produce a quarter of the world's carbon dioxide - once you look at maps of rising sea levels and spreading mosquitoes, you realize that we've probably never figured out a way to hate our neighbors around the world much more effectively.”