"Only when he has published his ideas and findings has the scientist made his contribution, and only when he has thus made it part of the public domain of scholarship can he truly lay claim to it as his own. For his claim resides only in the recognition accorded by peers in the social system of science through reference to his work."

-- Robert K. Merton

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“Marketing is not about your agency winning awards. It's about your organization winning business.”

Source : David Meerman Scott (2015). “The New Rules of Marketing and PR: How to Use Social Media, Online Video, Mobile Applications, Blogs, News Releases, and Viral Marketing to Reach Buyers Directly”, p.37, John Wiley & Sons
“I thought about making biscuits, but there seemed to be more than enough calories on board.”
“With One Spirit Medicine , you will discover how to dance between the visible, physical world of the senses and everyday tasks, and the invisible world of Spirit. You will be like the graceful jaguar, the balancing force of the rain forest who serves as an intermediary between the seen and unseen worlds as it journeys beyond death into eternity.”
“Luxury... corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.”
“Synthetic or inorganic substances do not contain any 'life force'; they are not dynamic. Everything is made of chemicals, but organic substances like essential oils have a structure which only mother nature can put together. They have a life force, an additional impulse which can only be found in living things.”
“Definition of responsibility: a commitment of the head, heart, and hands to fix the problem and never again affix blame.”
“You can say on one hand the market is crazy but it's not 1999. People have had their medicine from overexuberance. I find it really interesting that those two businesses, Yahoo! and Google, which are just online advertising businesses, are valued at more than the media behemoths in America.”
“The task of the historian is to understand the peoples of the past better than they understand themselves.”

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