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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.

Akio Morita

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Morita, Akio and Edwin M. Reingold and Mitsuko Simomura. Made in Japan: Akio Morita and Sony. ‎E. P. Dutton, 1986.

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The question isn't what are we going to do. The question is what aren't we going to do.

Ferris Bueller

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

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Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Directed by John Hughes. Paramount Pictures, 1986.

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Technology is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral.

Melvin Kranzberg

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Kranzberg, Melvin. "Technology and History: Kranzberg's Laws." Technology and Culture, vol. 27, no. 3, July 1986, pp. 544-560.

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Let's win this one for all the small schools that never had a chance to get here.

Hoosiers

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Hoosiers. Directed by David Anspaugh, Hemdale Film Corporation/De Haven Productions, 1986.

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When…we fear science, we really fear ourselves. Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.

John C. Polanyi

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Polanyi, John C. Nobel banquet speech. 10 Dec. 1986, Stockholm, Sweden.

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You can't get at the truth by writing history; only the novelist can do that.

Gerald Brenan

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Brenan, Gerald. Times Literary Supplement. 28 Nov. 1986.

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Greed is all right... Greed is healthy. You can be greedy and still feel good about yourself.

Ivan F. Boesky

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Boesky, Ivan. Commencement speech. 18 May 1986, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.

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The Holocaust is a central event in many people's lives, but it has also become a metaphor for our century. There cannot be an end to speaking and writing about it.

Aharon Appelfeld

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Appelfeld, Aharon. Quoted in "Writing Holocaust Memories." Written by Herbert Mitgang. The New York Times, 15 Nov. 1986.

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Once you find the truth you ought to be prepared to stand on the street corner and use all your gifts to right the wrong.

Maya Angelou

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Angelou, Maya. "The West Interview: Maya Angelou." Interviewed by Sal Manna. San Jose Mercury News, 22 June 1986.

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Usually the people who are the most generous are the people who have the least to give. I learned this first hand as a newspaper carrier when I was 12 years old. The biggest tips came from the poorest people.