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“Sustainable growth is characterized by one simple rule: New customers come from the actions of past customers.”
Source : Eric Ries (2011). “The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses”, p.207, Crown Business
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“When we go into the 80's it has more of a pop feel. But it's what I wanted to do. I wasn't trying to reach. See, that's the thing with me, I never wanted to reach any particular crowd. I'm writing for myself. If I don't like it I won't play it for anybody.”
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“Everybody kind of understands, Oh yeah you take drugs and it does something to your brain and then you can't stop. It's easier to describe that shame, that horrible feeling of not being able to control your own life.”
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“I would prefer to have invented a machine that people could use and that would help farmers with their work - for example a lawnmower.”
Source : "Kalashnikov: 'I wish I'd made a lawnmower'" by Kate Connolly, www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2002. 
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“When I quote others I do so in order to express my own ideas more clearly.”
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“We know great Nature's pow'r, Mother of things, whose vast unbounded sway From the deep centre all around extends Wide to the flaming barriers of the world. We feel her power; we strive not to repress (Vainly repress'd, or to deformity) Her lawful growth: ours be the task alone To check her rude excrescencies, to prune Her wanton overgrowth, and where she strays In uncouth shapes, to lead her gently back, With prudent hand, to form and better use.”
Source : John Armstrong, “The Oeconomy Of Love”
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“The histories of our two peoples, Palestinian and South African, correspond in such painful and poignant ways, that I intensely feel myself being at home amongst compatriots”
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“Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes.”
