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Thirty years ago, about 80% of a company's assets resided in its plant and equipment, with 20% in the knowledge of its people. Today, the reverse is true. The knowledge of our staff is our principal asset

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Susan Rice
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: November 17
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Susan Elizabeth Rice
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I was conscious of the fact that it could be to my disadvantage to marry a white guy - that some folks would hold that against me.
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We are patriots in my family, we are believers in America, we're believers in democracy.
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Like democracy itself, jazz has structure, but within it you can say almost anything.
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Since I've had a career, my hair has been more or less professional.
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It may not be what you would've chosen, but we all have a responsibility to be active citizens and shape our system and our future.
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We have to know who we are and know what we believe.
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We must be honest in acknowledging that neither Germany nor the US has the luxury of assuming that we can skate by on half-measures in Afghanistan and Pakistan and not risk suffering the consequences.
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The larger picture here is that a North Korea with nuclear weapons adds to the larger proliferation risk.
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If you're trying to get something done, there will always be people who don't want to see you get something done, or who have a stake in the status quo. And if they approach that through ad hominem criticism of you, you've got to have enough confidence and thickness of skin to be able to endure.
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Change doesn't happen with people sitting on their behinds, getting lazy.
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The United States share of the African market it's very small, it's only about 8 percent.
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South Africa's increasingly, for example, the largest foreign investor in various other parts of Africa.
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Peace, prosperity, and democracy cannot endure if imposed from the outside. We should cease to make false distinctions between peacekeeping and prevention they are in fact inextricably linked.
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President Obama is an extraordinary person to work with and for.
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Once you've learned to study in a bathing suit on the grass with muscled men throwing frisbees over your head, you can accomplish almost anything.
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What I learned is that policymakers have to force consideration of actions that may not have occurred to them at the time.
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I have a range, and I'd much rather do things the nice way than the hard way, but sometimes you have to use all the tools at your disposal.
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I am blunt sometimes I am diplomatic sometimes I am all things in between. Abrasive, you know, I guess it's in the eye of the beholder.
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I'm not watching any TV shows, frankly.
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One can't erase the tremendous burden of apartheid in 10 years, 20 years, I believe, even 30 years.
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