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The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.

~Malcolm Gladwell

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A lot of what is most beautiful about the world arises from struggle.

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Mainstream American society finds it easiest to be tolerant when the outsider chooses to minimize the differences that separate him from the majority. The country club opens its doors to Jews. The university welcomes African-Americans. Heterosexuals extend the privilege of marriage to the gay community.

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We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't always appreciate their fragility.

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We used to say poor people had lousy genes. Then we decided that wasn't OK, but we transferred the prejudice to upbringing. We said, 'You were neglected as a child, so you'll never make it.' That's just as pernicious.

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People in great institutions are occasionally credulous.

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It's very hard to find someone who's successful and dislikes what they do.

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If you go to an elite school where the other students in your class are all really brilliant, you run the risk of mistakenly believing yourself to not be a good student.

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You don't train someone for all of those years of medical school and residency, particularly people who want to help others optimize their physical and psychological health, and then have them run a claims-processing operation for insurance companies.

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When people from organizations like the World Bank descended on Third World countries, they always tried to remove obstacles to development, to reduce economic anxiety and uncertainty.

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Author

Born: September 3rd, 1963

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