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Business only has two functions - innovation and marketing.

Milan Kundera

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Milan Kundera
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: April 1
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Speak truth to power.
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We don't know when our name came into being or how some distant ancestor acquired it. We don't understand our name at all, we don't know its history and yet we bear it with exalted fidelity, we merge with it, we like it, we are ridiculously proud of it as if we had thought it up ourselves in a moment of brilliant inspiration.
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