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"We don't see a lot of models for male social interaction. There's sports and barn raisings."

"Children live in the only successful Marxist state ever created: the family. 'From each according to his ability, to each according to his need' is the family's practice as well as its theory. Even with today's scattershot patterns of marriage and parenting, a family is collectivist to a more than North Korean degree."

"Religion either produces the very best people or the very worst."

"Those who most obstinately oppose the most widely - held opinions more often do so because of pride than lack of intelligence. They find the best places in the right set already taken, and they do not want back seats."

"But maybe they were barbarians. Maybe this is what most barbarians look like. They look like everybody else."

"Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy profession, and a large number of its practitioners spend many nights drowning their sorrows in Ouisghian Zodahs."

"A priest is a functionary of a social sort. The society worships certain deities in a certain way, and the priest becomes ordained as a functionary to carry out that ritual. The deity to whom he is devoted is a deity that was there before he came along. But the shaman's powers are symbolized in his own familiars, deities of his own personal experience. His authority comes out of a psychological experience, not a social ordination."
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"Observation is a critical activity in the innovation process to understand the context of an issue from a human perspective."

"Build a heterogeneous team to close three gaps in innovation management - idea gaps, collaboration gaps, and implementation gaps."

"Change shouldn't be treated as a singular occurrence when it is an ongoing, continued process and dynamic capability within the organization."

"A set of excellent questions themselves is perhaps like a poem, both philosophical and intellectual."

"An intelligent organization is not about the "cleverness of one analytics team but the insightful nature of the entire business."

"Generally speaking, the key dimensions of corporate governance are strategy oversight, policy making, accountability, and monitoring."
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