- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
World Quotes
Quotes on the world and our place in it.
These quotes look at the world from different angles - one traces a common phrase back to ancient religion, another describes feeling atomized after moving to a new city. A few recall novels depicting a world with tighter social fabric, where people actually knew each other. Related reading: Great Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
If Marilyn Manson would write a song that says, 'Do your damn homework,' it would make the world a better place, and it wouldn't hurt him at all. And if he doesn't like it, to hell with him. He can come fight us - by the bicycle racks.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not registered to any party. I don't really play in the political world. I'm really more interested in getting things done.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a world of commoditized knowledge, the returns go to the companies who can produce non-standard knowledge.
- Business School
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was frustrated for a long time with my colleagues in the business school world and with so many management authors who didn't really see themselves as innovators. They were glorified journalists.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
What's true for churches is true for other institutions: the older and more organized they get, the less adaptable they become. That's why the most resilient things in our world - biological life, stock markets, the Internet - are loosely organized.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
In an ideal world, an individual's institutional power would be correlated perfectly with his or her value-add. In practice, this is seldom the case.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world. 'America, land of liberty and freedom?' You know, that's baloney. More than 2 million Americans are behind bars now. Communist China has four times the population and they have 1.5 million people behind bars.
- Competition
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- Nov 07, 2020
All I suggest is to make K-12 like higher education. Higher education in the United States is the best in the world because these institutions compete with each other for your tuition dollar. Let's just bring competition to public education.
- Better Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
Would the world be a better place if all drugs were legalized tomorrow? Absolutely. But pragmatically speaking, you're not going to go from the criminalization of all drugs to the legalization of drugs overnight.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never sat down and said, you know, what the world needs is a good, sick cartoonist.
- Bid
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- Nov 07, 2020