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" The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events. "

John Kenneth Galbraith

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" It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen. "

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" Humanity's legacy of stories and storytelling is the most precious we have. All wisdom is in our stories and songs. A story is how we construct our experiences. At the very simplest, it can be: 'He/she was born, lived, died.' Probably that is the template of our stories - a beginning, middle, and end. This structure is in our minds. "

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