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The Mission: The CIA in the 21st Century

by Tim Weiner (Goodreads Author)

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Mike’s Quotes

“You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out.”
― Steve Jobs

tags: advice, apple, business, creativity, ileadership, leadership, mac, macintosh

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“Oh, my Captain! my Captain! noble soul! grand old heart, after all! why should any one give chase to that hated fish! Away with me! let us fly these deadly waters! let us home!”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

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“Yea, foolish mortals, Noah's flood is not yet subsided; two thirds of the fair world it yet covers.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

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“There is, one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath...”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

tags: mermaid, mermaids, moby-dick, ocean, sea, siren, sirens, supernatural

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“Queequeg explained to me that his world was very different from ours. However, one thing he learned quickly, was that within all groups of people there are kind men and there are unkind men.”
― Herman Melville, Moby Dick

tags: herman-melville, kindness, mankind, moby-dick, worldview

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