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The question remains: which brands will commit to creating a private sector pillar of social change, and which will become casualties of their own outdated thinking?


Simon Mainwaring

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ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.
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SIMON SCHAMA As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another p...
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SIMON SINEK You're lucky you had that when you were 20. I sure didn't. I was overweight, and I had acne.
CARLY SIMON The challenge of the unknown future is so much more exciting than the stories of the accomplished pa...
SIMON SINEK Playing piano well is one thing, but attempting to play at concert level accompanying Meryl Streep w...
SIMON HELBERG Astronomers are greatly disappointed when, having traveled halfway around the world to see an eclips...
SIMON NEWCOMB A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars.
CARLY SIMON Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for...
HERBERT SIMON Like springs, adaptations can only go downhill.
JOHN SIMON As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put t...
PAUL SIMON There's something about the sound of a train that's very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful.
PAUL SIMON I'm not in it for the money. I like music. I love to write music. I can't imagine myself not...
PAUL SIMON I don't feel any pressure from fans. But I'm always in some kind of state of emotional turmo...
PAUL SIMON I think I have a superior brain and an inferior stature, if you really want to get brutal about it.
PAUL SIMON The thought that life could be better is woven indelibly into our hearts and our brains.
PAUL SIMON