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  • #1
    Ken Robinson
    “Human resources are like natural resources; they're often buried deep. You have to go looking for them, they're not just lying around on the surface. You have to create the circumstances where they show themselves.”
    Ken Robinson

  • #2
    Kim Stanley Robinson
    “In a capitalist world, the word capital has taken on more and more uses. . . . human capital, for instance, which is what labor accumulates through education and work experience. Human capital differs from the classic kind in that you can't inherit it, and it can only be rented, not bought or sold.”
    Kim Stanley Robinson, Green Mars

  • #3
    John Fitzgerald Kennedy
    “The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.”
    John F. Kennedy

  • #4
    John Fitzgerald Kennedy
    “If by a "Liberal" they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people-their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights and their civil liberties-someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a "Liberal", then I'm proud to say I'm a "Liberal.”
    John F. Kennedy, Profiles in Courage

  • #5
    John Fitzgerald Kennedy
    “Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.”
    John F. Kennedy

  • #6
    John Fitzgerald Kennedy
    “We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives.”
    John F. Kennedy

  • #7
    Robert F. Kennedy
    “Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events. It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.”
    Robert F. Kennedy

  • #8
    John Fitzgerald Kennedy
    “Too often we hold fast to the clichés of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

    [Commencement Address at Yale University, June 11 1962]
    John F. Kennedy

  • #9
    John Fitzgerald Kennedy
    “Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.”
    John F. Kennedy

  • #10
    John Fitzgerald Kennedy
    “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

    [Undelivered remarks for Dallas Trade Mart, November 22 1963]
    John F. Kennedy

  • #11
    Robert F. Kennedy
    “Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.”
    Robert F. Kennedy

  • #12
    John Fitzgerald Kennedy
    “Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.”
    John F. Kennedy

  • #13
    Ronald H. Coase
    “If you torture the data long enough, it will confess.”
    Ronald H. Coase, Essays on Economics and Economists

  • #14
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson



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