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What is necessary is possible, what we want is expensive. What is unnecessary is unlikely.
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Robert Fripp
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May 16
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1946
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Terry Pratchett
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Enough
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Rumour
Finding
Empirical
Because
Around
Exist
Going
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The reality is that a person who has always struggled with numbers is unlikely to be a great accountant or statistician.
Tom Rath
Great
Reality
Unlikely
Statistician
Struggled
Always
Accountant
Person
Who
Numbers
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Jens Martin Skibsted
Needs
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Intelligence
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Increasingly
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Types
Unlikely
Address
Those
Favor
Out
Jobs
New
Demographics
Becoming
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However
Left
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Created
Means
Who
Many
Need
If you don't have a lens that's been trained to look at how various forms of discrimination come together, you're unlikely to develop a set of policies that will be as inclusive as they need to be.
Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
You
Together
Will
Inclusive
Unlikely
Various
Develop
Come
Look
Policies
How
Been
Discrimination
Trained
Forms
Lens
Need
Set
If all you're trying to do is essentially the same thing as your rivals, then it's unlikely that you'll be very successful.
Michael Porter
You
Same Thing
Unlikely
Rivals
Very
Trying
Same
Essentially
Then
Successful
Your
Thing
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Adam Cohen
Black
White
Strategy
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Districts
Record
Some
Blacks
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Alliance
Remaining
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Voters
Concentrating
Likely
Around
Were
Max
After
Census
Republicans
Elect
Elected
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