You can see the future best through peripheral vision.
~ Nicholas Negroponte
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You can see the future best through peripheral vision.
~ Nicholas Negroponte
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A mixture of frustration and progress is the daily grind of foreign affairs.
~ Dean Acheson
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Unnecessary, false, dishonest products; these are the things that make me angry.
~ Dieter Rams
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Surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
~ Jonathan Swift
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How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
~ Henry David Thoreau
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I don’t like eloquence. If it isn’t effective enough to pierce your hide, it’s tiresome, and if it is effective enough, it muddles your thoughts.
~ Dashiell Hammett
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Ask any two managers precisely what they mean by ‘staff’, or ‘decentralization,’ or ‘budget.’ The differences in interpretation will make communication difficult. If we are to develop professional practices of management work, semantics requires first attention.
~ Louis A. Allen
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Marie Gluesenkamp Perez — who represents Washington State’s 3rd district in the United States Congress — was born on this day — June 4, 1988 — in Harris County, Texas.
Representative Gluesenkamp Perez attended both Warren Wilson College and Reed College – where she earned a degree in Economics. She lives in Skamania County, Washington.
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Believe me; democracy in action can be an unpretty sight.
~ Iain Banks
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A fate is not a punishment.
~ Albert Camus
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