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John Mardlin

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What is your favourite single sentence from a TED Talk?

Credit to Emily McManus for this conversation: http://www.ted.com/conversations/10/what_s_your_favorite_single_se.html

I wanted to keep it going since it really can serve as an important place to store those most succinct and powerful utterances.

I was so struck by Aaron O'Connell closing remarks from his talk in the 4th session of TED2011. Poorly recalled is would be:
"Just as quantum objects are defined by their relationships to other objects, so to are people defined by our connections to other people".

If you can better the quote please do so.

Please share your favourites from TED2011 here.

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    Vineet Tripathi

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    May 22 2011: I have quite few of my favs as below -

    Secret of Happiness - Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it. - Dan Dennett

    In practise what is an atheist? An atheist is just somebody who feels about Yahweh the way any decent Christian feels about Thor or Baal or the golden calf. As has been said before, we are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in, some of us just go one god further. - Richard Dawkins

    You got to persist through CRAP! which means Criticism, Rejection, Assholes and Pressure. - Richard St. Johns

    When we give to the world what we want the most, we heal the broken part inside of each of us. - Eve Ensler
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      Dong-Kuen Oh

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      May 23 2011: You got to persist through CRAP! which means Criticism, Rejection, Assholes and Pressure. - Richard St. Johns

      It's great:)

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