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" Bad news sells because the amygdala is always looking for something to fear. "

Peter Diamandis

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" When I talk about taking bold actions in the world, few things are bolder than creating the 'Huffington Post' from scratch and reinventing the newspaper business. "

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" I founded a launch company called International Microspace when I graduated medical school in 1989. We were trying to build a microsatellite launcher. "

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" 3D printing has digitized the entire manufacturing process. "

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" A dapper Canadian in his mid-fifties, Rob McEwen bought the disparate collection of gold mining companies known as Goldcorp in 1989. A decade later, he'd unified those companies and was ready for expansion - a process he wanted to start by building a new refinery. "

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" I think about things like, 'Will my kids need a college account? Will they even go to college?' I don't know if that will be the case. "

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" The U.S. government doesn't build your computers, nor do you fly aboard a U.S. government owned and operated airline. Private industry routinely takes technologies pioneered by the government and turns them into cheap, reliable and robust industries. This has happened in aviation, air mail, computers, and the Internet. "

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" In 1900, 180-plus out of every 1,000 African-American babies died. "

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" I have the general philosophy of creating the future you want to see. "

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" The challenge is that the day before something is truly a breakthrough, it's a crazy idea. And crazy ideas are very risky to attempt. "

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" The Department of Energy made an investment that failed, and it got raked over the coals for that failed investment. This is ridiculous. The fact of the matter is, the government should be making a lot of risky investments, the majority of which are likely to fail. "

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" My feeling is that if you can make a big impact on the global literacy problem, you can uplift a big portion of society. "

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" Human exploration is something that's been going on for thousands of years, and the models that worked 500 years ago are likely to work again today. "

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" Today, we don't blink an eye when the world's wealthiest individuals donate enormous sums of money to charitable causes. In fact, we expect them to do so. "

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" It's easy to forget that for centuries - for millennia - the 'workforce' was all of us. "

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" Millions of years ago, our brains became wired to remember about 150 people as 'close friends.' "

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" In the 1820s, the U.S., Japan, and the U.K. were some of the only countries where the average population received at least two years of formal schooling. "

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" I get my news from selected Google News and my social feed. "

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" Since the age of 6, I've always wanted to go to space. "

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" Now the amygdala is our early warning detector, our danger detector. It sorts and scours through all of the information looking for anything in the environment that might harm us. So given a dozen news stories, we will preferentially look at the negative news. "

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" I think people are dreaming big because they have the tools to dream big. I hope that people are dreaming big because it makes them feel good about their lives. "

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" 3D printing will massively reduce the cost of certain products as the cost of labor is removed. "

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" As humans, we have evolved to compete... it is in our genes, and we love to watch a competition. "

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" From a scientific point of view, we now know that the water is interlaced with the lunar soil in many locations, perhaps as remnants of comet collisions with the lunar surface. "

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" Large-scale philanthropy, based in the private - not the public - sector, is a relatively recent historical development. "

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" Imagine what we could do for the world's grand challenges with a trillion hours of focused attention. "

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" There are nearly one billion illiterate people on Earth. "

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" In most developed countries, the average person receives about 16 years of education. Even in developing countries, the population gets five to eight years of education. "

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" It's now possible to have your body 3D-imaged from head to toe at a sub-millimeter accuracy, showing every ripple of muscle or cellulite, to allow the perfect-fitting jeans or shoes. "

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" I don't think the space station is innovative. Going to the moon was innovative because we had no idea how to do it. "

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