Every man I meet is in some way my superior; and in that I can learn of him.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We must discover the power of love, the power, the redemptive power of love. And when we discover that we will be able to make of this old world a new world. We will be able to make men better. Love is the only way.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Google was founded
on this day in 1998
Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google on this day – September 4 – in 1998 in Menlo Park, California.
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Our moral thinking is much more like a politician searching for votes than a scientist searching for truth.
~ Jonathan Haidt
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Google Chrome was launched
on this day in 2008
Google Chrome was launched on this day – September 2 – in 2008.
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All true opinions are living, and show their life by being capable of nourishment; therefore of change. But their change is that of a tree — not of a cloud.
~ John Ruskin
Skype turns 21 today
Skype was first released today – August 29 – in 2003.
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The strange American ardor for passing laws, the insane belief in regulation and punishment, plays into the hands of the reformers, most of them quacks themselves. Their efforts, even when honest, seldom accomplish any appreciable good.
~ H. L. Mencken
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I am not interested in power for power’s sake, but I’m interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Level 5 leaders are a study in duality: modest and willful, humble and fearless.
~ Jim Collins, Good to Great