"It may be necessary to stand on the outside of one is to see things clearly."

-- Peter HÃ¸eg

“Mental models are deeply ingrained assumptions, generalizations, or even pictures of images that influence how we understand the world and how we take action.”
“There are so many businesses that are succeeding on Yelp that don't pay us a dollar, and we're really excited about that.”
“IÂ don't write with any audience in mind. I just write. IÂ take a chance on the audience. That's what I did originally, and I think it's worked--in the sense that I find there is an audience.”
“I am patient and am waiting for a profound revolution in the consciousness of the Israelis. The Arabs are ready to accept a strong Israel with nuclear arms - all it has to do is open the gates of its fortress and make peace.”
“Can clearly say Vegemite is horrible! Like tryin' new stuff though.”
“The seventeenth century witnessed the birth of modern science as we know it today. This science was something new, based on a direct confrontation of nature by experiment and observation. But there was another feature of the new science-a dependence on numbers, on real numbers of actual experience.”

Source : I. Bernard Cohen (2006). “The Triumph of Numbers: How Counting Shaped Modern Life”, p.21, W. W. Norton & Company
“The application of force alone, without support based on a spiritual concept, can never bring about the destruction of an idea or arrest the propagation of it, unless one is ready and able to ruthlessly to exterminate the last upholders of that idea even to a man, and also wipe out any tradition which it may tend to leave behind.”
“I guess you could say that Iâ€™m the luckiest girl because I got to meet my true hero. She was a precious person. She made me a better singer, a better person. She was the consummate artist and human being.”

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