"Having a good network can be invaluable. It opens doors for you and allows you to enter into opportunities that are beneficial to your business. In this sense, 'who you know' is undoubtedly important, but to me 'what you know' is more important because once an opportunity shows itself, it is up to you to make the most of it, and this is down to your knowledge and skill."

-- Richard Branson

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“Then about 12 years ago it dawned on me that folk music - the music of Woody Guthrie and Phil Ochs, early Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Pete Seeger - could be as heavy as anything that comes through a Marshall stack. The combination of three chords and the right lyrical couplet can be as heavy as anything in the Metallica catalogue.”
“The rights of the people to the exercise and fruits of their own industry can never be protected against the selfishness of rulers not subject to their control at short periods.”
“I am not sure how a novel changes the world. I think it alters a reader's perspective by asking him or her to see the world through another consciousness. That can perhaps cause people to see their own lives differently. Or just give a single day, a single moment, a slightly different sheen.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Sometimes a mind is like a mouth: you just got to shut it.”

Source : James Carville (2003). “Had Enough?: A Handbook for Fighting Back”, p.16, Simon and Schuster
“Matter as matter rather than matter as symbol is a conscious political position, essentially Marxist.”

Source : Carl Andre, James Sampson Meyer (2005). “Cuts: Texts 1959-2004”, p.61, MIT Press
“I propose to provide proof... that just as always an alcoholic ferment, the yeast of beer, is found where sugar is converted into alcohol and carbonic acid, so always a special ferment, a lactic yeast, is found where sugar is transformed into lactic acid. And, furthermore, when any plastic nitrogenated substance is able to transform sugar into that acid, the reason is that it is a suitable nutrient for the growth of the [lactic] ferment.”
“It is a well known fact that reality has liberal bias.”
“Working with amazing people, you continue to learn and develop yourself, as an actor and as a person.”

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