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"I've spent my whole life with people underestimating me."
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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."
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"We can't afford as a nation - not because of money but because of our social fabric - to have large numbers of people who are not working."
"I have always hired people of different ages. Young people and older people. People in their 70s and in their 20s. People who are fully capable of talking back to me."
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"I bring other constituencies - I also have ties to minority communities. And obviously, to the world of world-class research universities. So I can bring some constituencies that I'm used to working with."
"But for me, it is when a student has died. I find the death of a young person the most difficult and painful of times. To explain it to other young people, to see a bright future snuffed out, is just awful. I am haunted by those deaths."
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