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For a hot-shot CEO taking over a troubled company, mass firings are the ultimate quick fix, the accounting equivalent of crack: cheap, easy to score, instantly gratifying, and highly addictive.

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Arianna Huffington
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: July 15
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I've always been progressive on social issues: pro-choice, pro-gun control, and pro-gay rights - even when I was a Republican. The big difference is that I once believed the private sector would address America's social problems. But then I saw firsthand that this wasn't going to happen.
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Success is not a straight line, it's much more of a dance and being open to possibilities.
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Hollywood has gone from the capital of conspicuous consumption to the cutting edge of conspicuous conservation.
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Trying to be Supermom is as futile as trying to be Perfect Mom. Not going to happen.
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There are almost no worldly signals reminding us to stay connected to the essence of who we are, to take care of ourselves along the way, to reach out to others, to pause to wonder, and to connect to that place from which everything is possible.
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Why worry about minor little details like clean air, clean water, safe ports and the safety net when Jesus is going to give the world an Extreme Makeover: Planet Edition right after he finishes putting Satan in his place once and for all?
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America is a country ready to be taken - in fact, longing to be taken - by political leaders ready to restore democracy and trust to the political process.
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corporate America corrupted the watchdogs that were supposed to be guarding the public interest by feeding them under the table.
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Increasingly, staying in the middle class - let alone aspiring to become middle class - is becoming a game of chance.
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Self expression is the new entertainment, We never used to question why people sit on the couch for seven hours a day watching bad TV. Nobody ever asked, Why are they doing that for free? We need to celebrate [this desire to contribute for free] rather than question it.
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Being a mother is the role I'm most proud of.
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You can't manage creativity. You need to manage for creativity. You need to create the space for it to emerge.
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I wish I'd known sooner that success isn't defined by who goes the longest without vacation.
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Remind yourself: you are not your thoughts or feelings
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Liberation is an ever shifting horizon, a total ideology that can never fulfill its promises. It has the therapeutic quality of providing emotionally charged rituals of solidarity in hatred - it is the amphetamine of its believers.
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By any sane definition of success, if you wake up in a pool of blood and nobody has shot you, you are not successful.
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At the moment, our society’s notion of success is largely composed of two parts: money and power. But it’s time for a third metric, beyond money and power - one founded on well-being, wisdom, our ability to wonder, and to give back.
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The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless mother is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly - indeed to embrace uncertainty and imperfection.
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HuffPost serves as a starter page for news consumers, a place to find, and be directed to, the best content available on the Web. We consistently link out directly to other sites - often from our top-of-the-page headline.
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Well, you could become a Southern Baptist. I mean, instead of having to obey the Pope, you could just obey your husband.
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