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" The first two lessons, which we learned early in our efforts to be good member missionaries, have made sharing the Gospel much easier: We simply can't predict who will or won't be interested in the Gospel, and building a friendship is not a prerequisite to inviting people to learn about the Gospel. "

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" If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love. "

" Finding a 'sacrificial lamb' on whom to tag blame for complicated problems is an important instrument in the toolkit of politicians, because it deflects blame for the nation's economic woes away from their own regulatory lapses, economic mismanagement and coddling to labor unions. "

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" It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly. "

" The financial doctrines so zealously followed by American companies might help optimize capital when it is scarce. But capital is abundant. If we are to see our economy really grow, we need to encourage migratory capital to become productive capital - capital invested for the long-term in empowering innovations. "

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American

Financial

" Things happen to us in unpredictable ways, but the effect that that has on the kind of people who we become actually is not only open to chance - we can influence it in pretty profound ways. "

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Things Happen

Chance

Influence

" By definition, big data cannot yield complicated descriptions of causality. Especially in healthcare. Almost all of our diseases occur in the intersections of systems in the body. "

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Big

Healthcare

" Sustaining true friendship is a lot more challenging than we give it credit for. "

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True Friendship

Friendship

" I don't think it's more important to preserve female friendship than a marriage. But I think that there's a place for female friendship that's really important in the lives of all the women I know. As I've gotten older, it's become much more important to me. "

" The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him. "

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Discipline

Results

Men

" Efficiency innovations arise in industries that already exist. They provide existing goods and services at much lower costs. They are not empowering. Efficiency innovators become the low cost providers within an existing framework. "

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" Dealing with LeBron is like a friendship. Coaching, but he understands that I am the boss, and I am going to call the shots, and he is fine with that. "

" Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy. "

" 'Disruption' is, at its core, a really powerful idea. Everyone hijacks the idea to do whatever they want now. It's the same way people hijacked the word 'paradigm' to justify lame things they're trying to sell to mankind. "

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Want

People

Powerful

" A lot of the powerful religious leaders, from Jesus to Buddha to Tibetan monks, they're really talking about the same things: love and acceptable, and the value of friendship, and respecting yourself so you can respect others. "

" Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected. "

" The mistake that makes launching a venture expensive is when you try to make a disruptive technology so good that it can compete on a quality basis with an established product. "

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" Today, I, too, wish to reaffirm that I intend to continue on the path toward improved relations and friendship with the Jewish people, following the decisive lead given by John Paul II. "

" Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation. "

" The iPod is a proprietary integrated product, although that is becoming quite modular. You can download your music from Amazon as easily as you can from iTunes. You also see modularity organized around the Android operating system that is growing much faster than the iPhone. So I worry that modularity will do its work on Apple. "

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Growing

Worry

Apple

" I promise my students that if they take the time to figure out their life purpose, they'll look back on it as the most important thing they discovered while at school. If they don't figure it out, they will just sail off without a rudder and get buffeted in the very rough seas of life. "

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Sail

Look

Purpose

" There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met. "

" Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically everything everywhere is full of sudden hate and ugliness? "

" Friendship is a wildly underrated medication. "

" Often the magical elements in my books are standing in for elements of the real world, the small and magical-in-their-own-right sorts of things that we take for granted and no longer pay attention to, like the bonds of friendship that entwine our own lives with those of other people and places. "

" Love is friendship set on fire. "

" Friendship is a difficult, dangerous job. It is also (though we rarely admit it) extremely exhausting. "

" Most marketers think there's a concept called a product life cycle. Once you realize that the world is organized by jobs that need to be done, you understand that product life cycles don't exist. "

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Think

World

You

" I define friendship as a bond that transcends all barriers. When you are ready to expect anything and everything from friends, good, bad or ugly... that's what I call true friendship. "

" You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal. "