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The best example of how impossible it will be for Major League Baseball to crack down on steroids is the fact that baseball and the media are still talking about the problem as 'steroids.'

We need to be clear when we venerate entrepreneurs what we are venerating. They are not moral leaders. If they were moral leaders, they wouldn't be great businessmen.

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Great Moral Need Clear Businessmen Entrepreneurs Leaders Were

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

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World Imagination Clean Paper Sheet Starts Visionary

The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness - in the service of perfection.

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Life Great Service Perfection Accomplishment Effectively Idiosyncrasies Jobs Narcissism Rudeness He His How Put

My books have contradictions all the time - and people are fine with that.

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Time People Fine Books Contradictions

You think it matters to the kids whether they're learning to play on a Steinway or a normal piano?

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Learning You Think Normal Matters Piano Kids Play Whether

We should be firing bad teachers.

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Bad Teachers Should Firing

The willingness to be self-critical in England is much greater than the willingness to be self-critical in America.

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America Than England Willingness Greater Self-Critical Much

If you're skinny and you can't play hockey in Canada, you aren't left with a lot of options. I was left with running.

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You Canada Skinny Play Hockey Left Options Running Lot

I never had those dreams of making the Olympics. Never.

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Dreams Never Making Those Olympics Had

When you write about sports, you're allowed to engage in mischief. Nothing is at stake.

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You Sports Nothing About Allowed Engage Mischief Stake Write

An incredibly high percentage of successful entrepreneurs are dyslexic. That's one of the little-known facts.

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Facts High Dyslexic Successful Entrepreneurs High Percentage Incredibly Percentage

If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening.

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You Gift Reading Listening Create Away Take

There is this tremendous body of knowledge in the world of academia where extraordinary numbers of incredibly thoughtful people have taken the time to examine on a really profound level the way we live our lives and who we are and where we've been. That brilliant learning sometimes gets trapped in academia and never sees the light of day.

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If my books appear to a reader to be oversimplified, then you shouldn't read them: You're not the audience!

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You Audience Books Them Appear Reader Read Then

I have profoundly mixed feelings about the Affordable Care Act. What I love about it is its impulse. It attempts to deal with this intractable problem in American health care life, which is that a significant portion of the population does not have access to quality medical care.

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Part of me thinks that innovation, real innovation in health care delivery, needs to happen from the bottom to the top.

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Me Health Care Innovation Bottom Delivery Happen Health Care Needs Thinks Top Part Real

We aren't, as human beings, very good at acting in our best interest.

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Best Good Human Acting Beings Human Beings Interest Our Very

My mother read me biblical stories at night.

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Mother Me Night Read Bible Stories

Once you understand that Goliath is much weaker than you think he is, and David has superior technology, then you say: why do we tell the story the way we do? It becomes, actually, a far more meaningful and important story in its retelling than in the kind of unsophisticated way we've done it for, I think, too long.

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The underdog winning is the romantic position.

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Romantic Winning Underdog Position

If you think advantage lies in resources, then you think the best educational system is the one that spends the most money.

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Best You Money Think Advantage Educational Lies Resources System Most Then

From medieval tapestries, we know that slingers were capable of hitting birds in flight. They were incredibly accurate.

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Know Birds Flight Capable Accurate Hitting Incredibly Medieval Were

Do you remember the wrestler Andre the Giant? Famous. He had acromegaly.

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You Remember He Famous Andre Giant Wrestler Had

As a writer, the best mindset is to be unafraid.

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Best Mindset Writer Unafraid

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

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Someone Hard Find Very Dislikes Successful

I try to be unafraid of making a fool of myself.

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Myself Fool Try Making Unafraid

The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.

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Fear Way Lose Your Correct Older Valuable Being Get More Only Say Things Understand

Rarely do we stop and consider whether the most prestigious of institutions is always in our best interest.

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Best Stop Always Most Consider Institutions Interest Prestigious Rarely Our Whether

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