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Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.

—Steve Jobs

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The bars of West Hollywood and New York are awash with people throwing their lives away in the desperate hope of finding a shortcut, any shortcut. And a lot of them aren't even young anymore; their B-plans having been washed away by Vodka & Tonics years ago./ Meanwhile their competition is at home, working their asses off.

—Hugh Macleod

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There's some things that people don't admit because they don't like the way it sounds.

—Cindy Chupack

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The only way most people recognize their limits is by trespassing on them.

—Tom Morris

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It's not about vein' mad at everything. It's about bein' REALLY mad at the right stuff.

—Ice T

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Gaining control over your health and well-being is one of those times in your life that you get to be completely selfish and not feel bad about it. If you want to meet your goals, you have to make it about you. You have to make it work for you and you alone. Anything less is a setup for failure.

—Jennifer Hudson

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The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving.

—Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

—J. K. Rowling

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A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strengths; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities.

—William Arthur Ward

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There's such a difference between saying a thing yourself and hearing other people say it. You may know a thing is so, but you can't help hoping other people don't quite think it is.

—Lucy Maud Montgomery

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It's a toss-up when you decide to leave the beaten track. Many are called, but few are chosen.

—W. Somerset Maugham

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You go to movies to see people you love suffer - that's why you go to the movies. You don't go to see a movie about a guy who already knows he has a wonderful life.

—Joss Whedon

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To be in love Is to touch with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.

—Gwendolyn Brooks

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People say to me so often, 'Jane how can you be so peaceful when everywhere around you people want books signed, people are asking these questions and yet you seem peaceful,' and I always answer that it is the peace of the forest that I carry inside.

—Jane Goodall

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When you write things down, they sometimes take you places you hadn't planned.

—Melanie Benjamin

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