Dan Trachtenberg Quotes

Before we understood that houses shift just over time because the ground is moving, the creaks in a house were assumed to be apparitions, or ghosts. Before we understood that we live on a planet, and there are others, the only answers to where we came from had to be something supernatural.

Dan Trachtenberg

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A company's ethical behavior is ultimately triggered by some sense of caring. And care is a sense of closeness to someone or something. A company must bring value to whom or what it is close to.

Jens Martin Skibsted

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As a congressman, why should I be forced to peruse cable stations and blog sites for information on the discussions and then be asked to vote for the deal when I have no input and no time to know even what's in it?

John Fleming

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Are vampires kinky? I didn't know.

Roger Ebert

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What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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My goal is to be the No. 1 golfer in the world, and I want to chase Tiger.

Jason Day

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Design is a constant challenge to balance comfort with luxe, the practical with the desirable.

Donna Karan

ChallengeBalanceDesignComfort

I think a writer's job is to provoke questions. I like to think that if someone's read a book of mine, they've had - I don't know what - the literary equivalent of a shower. Something that would start them thinking in a slightly different way, perhaps. That's what I think writers are for.

Doris Lessing

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Man is the only animal capable of reasoning, though many others possess the faculty of memory and instruction in common with him.

Aristotle

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Without adventure civilization is in full decay.

Alfred North Whitehead

AdventureCivilizationWithoutFull

I don't have hard edges.

Phil Gingrey

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Steve Jobs was Galileo in a past life. Discovery was instinctual for him.

Sylvia Browne

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Businesses need to define what they need so training providers can offer up the right training.

Penny Pritzker

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