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Normal is fading away. Governments and industries and schools like normal, because it's easier, it scales and it's profitable. But people don't like it - we want to be who we are, not who some marketer tells us to be.

Away Because Easier Fading
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I think that the economics of book publishing favor hits with long book runs. You make all your money on the last bunch of books, not the first.

Book Bunch Economics Favor
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If a product's future is unlikely to be remarkable - if you can't imagine a future in which people are once again fascinated by your product - it's time to realize that the game has changed. Instead of investing in a dying product, take profits and reinvest them in building something new.

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If we live in a world where information drives what we do, the information we get becomes the most important thing. The person who chooses that information has power.

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We're not going to outgrow our need for information.

Going Information Need Our
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If you're going to build a lean enterprise, you can test and measure how often the company ships iterations, how often it fails, how often it is putting things in front of people that don't work.

Build Company Enterprise Fails
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Most people have bosses who hire them to fill a slot in the work chart and to do what they are told. And most people who are doing what they are told feel safe; it feels reliable.

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The minute there's a map, there is no art. Paint by numbers is not art. Paint by numbers is a mechanical activity.

Activity Art Map Mechanical
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I made a decision to write for my readers, not to try to find more readers for my writing.

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Kickstarter eliminates the risk that publishers and booksellers face. They have limited resources and limited shelf space, and Kickstarter is proof to them that something is going to work.

Face Going Kickstarter Limited
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One reason I encourage people to blog is that the act of doing it stretches your available vocabulary and hones a new voice.

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My blogging life is basically goalless. I like the zen nature of that, and paradoxically, it improves results.

Basically Blogging Improves Life
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When enough people care about autism or diabetes or global warming, it helps everyone, even if only a tiny fraction actively participate.

About Actively Autism Care
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I learned that a long walk and calm conversation are an incredible combination if you want to build a bridge.

Bridge Build Calm Combination
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A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.

Desperate Gives Hope Leader
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You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life.

Build Creativity Doorway Effort
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With love and patience, nothing is impossible.

Impossible Love Nothing Patience
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The determination to win is the better part of winning.

Better Determination Part Win
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A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.

Achieve Change Destiny Enable
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So long as nuclear weapons continue to exist, so will the temptation to threaten others with overwhelming military force.

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The effects of human rights education can be dramatic in awakening people to the value and power of their own lives, as shown in the following stories.

Awakening Dramatic Education Effects
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A commitment to human rights cannot be fostered simply through the transmission of knowledge. Action and experience play a crucial role in the learning process.

Action Commitment Crucial Experience
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It is only through such real-life daily struggles and challenges that a genuine sensitivity to human rights can be inculcated. This is a truth that is not limited to school education: it applies to all of us.

Challenges Daily Education Genuine
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Human rights will be a powerful force for the transformation of reality when they are not simply understood as externally defined norms of behavior but are lived as the spontaneous manifestation of internalized values.

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There are no greater treasures than the highest human qualities such as compassion, courage and hope. Not even tragic accident or disaster can destroy such treasures of the heart.

Accident Compassion Courage Destroy
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Where there is an absence of international political leadership, civil society should step in to fill the gap, providing the energy and vision needed to move the world in a new and better direction.

Absence Better Civil Direction
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We must take steps to prevent further nuclear weapons development or modernization.

Development Further Modernization Nuclear
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The problems of aging present an opportunity to rethink our social and personal lives in order to ensure the dignity and welfare of each individual.

Aging Dignity Ensure Individual
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Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.
Joy Never Only Sorrow
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Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.

Challenge Death Each Love
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I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.

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Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized.

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I've always thought that people need to feel good about themselves and I see my role as offering support to them, to provide some light along the way.

About Along Always Feel
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Change is the end result of all true learning.
Change End End Result Learning
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The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.

Another Becomes Bit Exercises
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Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.

Life Love Love Is Love You
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It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.

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Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.

Cruel Expected Gentleness Only
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Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.

Expectations Idealize Live Never
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Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.

About Always Arms Close
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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Brood Forever Get Living
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I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn.
Apathy Damn Feeling Giving
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We all need each other.

Each Need All Other
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I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, 'No, I won't do it, I won't behave his way anymore. I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving,' and then you do it.

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We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ourselves.

Become Being Force Forces
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If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

Choose Enslavement Entails Free
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The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.

Difficult Difficult Thing Easiest Easiest Thing
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If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.
I Can Ignorance Only Teach
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Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lies man's only promise.

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What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.

Eternity Fail Forever Give
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