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People with high levels of personal mastery...cannot afford to choose between reason and intuition, or head and heart, any more than they would choose to walk on one leg or see with one eye.

Peter Senge

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Peter Senge
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: January 1
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Stanford
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