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OPPORTUNITY is not knocking. It is pounding on your door.

Tom Peters

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Tom Peters
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: November 7
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The workplace revolution that transformed the lives of blue-collar workers in the 1970s and 1980s is finally reaching the offices and cubicles of the white-collar workers.
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One potential long-term problem with many current digital libraries is that they grew out of and aresupported by bricks-and-mortar libraries. Although there is nothing inherently wrong with that arrangement, inreality it creates a potentially dangerous situation that I call the other digital divide.
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The drive for control, or the perception thereof, is truly the strongest force in human nature.
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