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"I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were entitled to, no matter what the sacrifice."
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"History must be documented, every moment is a sacred history."

"Once upon a time, there was a civilization in the eastern side of the world. It was one of the most advanced civilizations on the planet that existed during that time.This civilization was the glorious Indus valley civilization. No, I am not talking about India. I am talking about the land of greatness that got lost in time. Today, in the same geographical location of that great civilization, we have a piece of earth, which is known as "India. But do not mistake it to be the same glorious land that existed thousands of years ago, along with other magnificent civilizations, such as the Greeks, the Mayans, the Egyptians, the Babylonians etc."

"It comes to this then: there always have been people like me and always will be, and generally they have been persecuted."

"Every period in history has its own peculiarities."

"If you'll excuse a brief history lesson: most people didn't experience 'the sixties' until the seventies. Which meant, logically, that most people in the sixties were still experiencing the fifties--or, in my case, bits of both decades side by side. Which made things rather confusing."
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"Leaders must wake people out of inertia. They must get people excited about something they've never seen before, something that does not yet exist."


"The boomers' biggest impact will be on eliminating the term 'retirement' and inventing a new stage of life... the new career arc."


"Companies used to be able to function with autocratic bosses. We don't live in that world anymore."


"The commune movement is part of a reawakening of belief in the possibilities for utopia that existed in the nineteenth century and exist again today, a belief that by creating the right social institution, human satisfaction and growth can be achieved."


"The Martha Stewart trial makes clear how far women have risen in the business world. America can be proud of our equal-opportunity prosecution and conviction."


"A vision is not just a picture of what could be; it is an appeal to our better selves, a call to become something more."


"One of the symptoms of a losing streak is a turnover of top executives. It's a revolving door."


"Cheap labor is not going to be the way we compete in the United States. It's going to be brain power."
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