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One of my top tips for aspiring entrepreneurs: Tell everyone you know about your idea. This runs contrary to the instinct that most people have, because they're afraid someone is going to 'steal my ideal.' Ideas alone are worth very little; it's in the execution and market feedback that companies are made.

~Aaron Patzer

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The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.

~Adolf Loos

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Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.

~Alain Badiou

Topics: Capitalism Contrary Destructive Good Humanity Liberal Nihilism Quite Savage Vehicle

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The roots of the word 'anarchy' are 'an archos,' 'no leaders,' which is not really about the kind of chaos that most people imagine when the word 'anarchy' is mentioned. I think that anarchy is, to the contrary, about taking personal responsibility for yourself.

~Alan Moore

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Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

~Albert Camus

Topics: Beautiful Blinds Contrary Enhances Every Falsehood Light Like Object On The Contrary Truth Twilight

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Working conditions for me have always been those of the monastic life: solitude and frugality. Except for frugality, they are contrary to my nature, so much so that work is a violence I do to myself.

~Albert Camus

Topics: Always Been Conditions Contrary Except Frugality Life Me Much Myself Nature Solitude Those Violence Work Working

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To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.

~Albert Camus

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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

~Aldous Huxley

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A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

~Aldous Huxley

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You need to be naive enough to do things differently. No big publishing house would have allowed us to co-create a fully designed, four color business book in landscape format - because it was contrary to the publishing industry logic. However, we thought of Business Model Generation as a product, not just a book - similar to Apple products.

~Alexander Osterwalder

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