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“Creativity requires the freedom to consider 'unthinkable' alternatives, to doubt the worth of cherished practices. Every organization, every society is under the spell of assumptions so familiar that they are never questioned, least of all by those most intimately involved.”
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“That was the whole point of being special: You existed to make sure everyone else behaved, but that didn't mean YOU had to.”
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“Your number one customers are your people. Look after employees first and then customers last.”
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“Guilt is a gift from Allah warning you that what you are doing is violating your soul”
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“It is not a lie to keep the truth to oneself.”
Source : "Fictional character: Mr. Spock". "Star Trek/ The Enterprise Incident", September 27, 1968.
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“Ransack the history of revolutions, and it will be found that every fall of a regime has been presaged by a defiance which went unpunished. It is as true today as it was ten thousand years ago that a Power from which the magic virtue has gone out, falls.”
Source : Bertrand de Jouvenel (1949). “On Power: Its Nature and the History of Its Growth”
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“My father was a doctor.”
Source : "David Alan Grier's 'Sporting Life' On Broadway". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. May 22, 2012.
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“For many students, school is an obligation, not a joy and a privilege. This means you need to ‘sell’ the learning to them.”
Source : Eric Jensen (2013). “Engaging Students with Poverty in Mind: Practical Strategies for Raising Achievement”, p.26, ASCD