"In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence."

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Source : "The Fine Line Between Fear and Courage" by Ben Horowitz, www.businessinsider.com. August 8, 2011.

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“What we can do, we must do: we must use what we are given, and we must use it the best we can, however much or little help we have for the task. What you have been given is a hard thing--a very hard thing... But my darling, what if there were no one who could do the difficult things?”
“I used to be a street performer, and performances on Venice Beach, it's like playing the Apollo: They let you know if they don't like you!”

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“I am a contradictory mess but I see it as my prerogative to change my mood like the weather.”
“How do you say a thing at all, at the end of the day? How do you say whatâ€™s in your mind? And as soon as you say what you actually have in mind, itâ€™s wrong, isnâ€™t it?”

Source : "A life in poetry: Ciaran Carson". Interview with Aida Edemariam, www.theguardian.com. January 16, 2009.
“I am an African-American in America. That will never change. But I don't have to be defined by that.”
“Physics has never been a comfortable subject for human psychology. The desire to regard everything outside the human race's purview as insignificant, and everything within that purview as firmly under the control of tribal myth and custom, is as strong today as it was in the time of Galileo.”

Source : Celia Elizabeth Green (1976). “The decline and fall of science”, Hamish Hamilton
“If through your vices you afflicted are, Lay not the blame of your distress on God; You made your rulers mighty, gave them guards, So now you groan 'neath slavery's heavy rod.”
“Men die but sorrow never dies.”

Source : "The Cradle Tomb in Westminster Abbey". Poem by Sarah Chauncey Woolsey, www.bartleby.com. 1902.

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