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black isn't beautiful and it isn't ugly - black is! It's not kinky hair and it's not straight hair - it just is.
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Never hesitate to show your own staff that you need help. They need to be reminded how important they are to the process. In life and in business, we rely on each other to be responsible for individual tasks that benefit everyone. People sometimes forget how much interdependence there really is in a successful business. Learn the art of asking for help to empower and motivate others, and you will have learned a very powerful management strategy.
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The thing about grief is that it's a roller coaster - it's up, it's down. The emotions sometimes take over.
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Investors want to know how exposed a business is to climate change. The physical risks to Tesco are clear, but could be far-reaching. Freak weather in the past few months has disrupted our supply lines in Hungary, Bangladesh and Korea. Any responsible board of directors should be planning ahead, thinking through these risks, and presenting them in a clear, transparent way
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
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A great number of those working for liberal causes are not only shy but borderline collusive. They want change to happen nicely, and it won't. They want decency to come about without anybody suffering or being embarrassed, and it won't. And most of all they want to give many of the enemies of open government the benefit of the doubt, and I don't. It's not just a difference of approach, it's a complete schism in our respective philosophy. You can't go about disclosure in the hope that it won't spoil anybody's dinner.
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We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still.
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Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?
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I don't get recognized all the time, but it tends to happen more in America, and people are so lovely when they do.
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The concept of progress must be grounded in the idea of catastrophe. That things are 'status quo' is the catastrophe
