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Creative ideas do not spring from groups. They spring from individuals.

Alfred Whitney Griswold

1957

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Creativity Innovation The individual Committees

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1957

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Alfred Whitney Griswold

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Griswold, Alfred Whitney. Address at Yale University. 9 Jun. 1957, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.

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