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"Human societies vary in lots of independent factors affecting their openness to innovation."
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"If there seems no answers then create and apply them."
"Dagny," he said, looking at the city as it moved past their taxi window, "think of the first man who thought of making a steel girder. He knew what he saw, what he thought and what he wanted. He did not say, 'It seems to me,' and he did not take orders from those who say, 'In my opinion."
"Create an environment that fosters the creative genius within you!"
"Ingenuity requires creativity."
"When you think there is nothing left to improve on, your business dies, for there is no shortage of innovators."
"Thinking differently is the key to improvement."
"We're taught by repetition but great innovators need to be great at doing the different."
"The future belongs to those who innovate."
"Nothing is more important than a great idea that influenced thedevelopment of civilization."
"Inside the human mind, an idea is a mental spark that occurs as a response to the challenge of a train of thought."
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"We're uncomfortable about considering history as a science. It's classified as a social science, which is considered not quite scientific."
"No government is here forever. And there are other forces - the most potent force in our society, in fact, big business - doing good for the environment."
"Why did human development proceed at such different rates on different continents for the last 13,000 years?"
"Tasmanian history is a study of human isolation unprecedented except in science fiction - namely, complete isolation from other humans for 10,000 years."
"Starbucks goes to a great effort, and pays twice as much for its coffee as its competitors do, and is very careful to help coffee producers in developing countries grow coffee without pesticides and in ways that preserve forest structure."
"AIDS and malaria and TB are national security issues. A worldwide program to get a start on dealing with these issues would cost about $25 billion... It's, what, a few months in Iraq."
"Native Americans had only stone and wooden weapons and no animals that could be ridden. Those military advantages repeatedly enabled troops of a few dozen mounted Spaniards to defeat Indian armies numbering in the thousands."
"The main thing that gives me hope is the media. We have radio, TV, magazines, and books, so we have the possibility of learning from societies that are remote from us, like Somalia. We turn on the TV and see what blew up in Iraq or we see conditions in Afghanistan."
"I've worked very hard in this book to keep the lines of communication open. I don't want to turn someone away from this information for partisan political reasons."
"The broadest pattern of history - namely, the differences between human societies on different continents - seems to me to be attributable to differences among continental environments, and not to biological differences among peoples themselves."
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