"The three short years I spent at Harvard, where I lived with excellent people, taught me not only that I must know how to choose my partners but also that choosing excellent partners is a skill you can learn. Obviously, when you spend time with the best, you learn how to choose among them."

-- Jorge Paulo Lemann

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“When people give advice, they're really just talking to themselves in the past.”
“The World Health Organization is now studying Russia's experience, i.e. how we managed to produce tangible results in such a short time”
“The laws of chess do not permit a free choice: you have to move whether you like it or not.”

Source : Emanuel Lasker (2013). “Lasker's Manual of Chess”, p.77, SCB Distributors
“I get offered movies probably twice a month and they are just generally bad.”

Source : Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. October 6, 2004.
“Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you've closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.”
“It seemed like a nice neighborhood to have bad habits in.”

Source : Raymond Chandler (2011). “The Big Sleep & Farewell, My Lovely”, p.43, Modern Library
“The stately heavens which glory doth array, are mirrors of God's admirable might; there, whence forth spreads the night, forth springs the day. He fix'd the fountains of this temporal light, where stately stars enstall'd, some stand, some stray, all sparks of his great power (though small) yet bright. By what none utter can, no, not conceive. All of his greatness, shadows may perceive.”
“We want to believe we are good, we are different, we are better, or we are superior. But this body of social-psychological research--and there are obviously many more experiments in addition to mine and Milgram's--shows that the majority of good, ordinary, normal people can be easily seduced, tempted, or initiated into behaving in ways that they say they never would. In 30 minutes we got them stepping across that line.”

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