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I think it is valuable and should be valued by its consumers. Charging for content forces discipline on journalists: they must produce things that people actually value.

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He had the uncanny capacity to know exactly what your weak point is, know what will make you feel small, to make you cringe," Joanna Hoffman said. "It's a common trait in people who are charismatic and know how to manipulate people. Knowing that he can crush you makes you feel weakened and eager for his approval, so then he can elevate you and put you on a pedestal and own you.

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Jobs insisted that Apple focus on just two or three priorities at a time. "There is no one better at turning off the noise that is going on around him,"Cook said. "That allows him to focus on a few things and say no to many things. Few people are really good at that."

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What has made New Orleans magical for most of it's history is that it's an integrated city with a wealth of different types of people. You see everyone coming back now, and you see that flourishing again. This is where you get jazz, this is where you get good cooking. This is where you get a city that has a special magical flavor.

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The older I get, the more I see how much motivations matter. The Zune was crappy because the people at Microsoft don't really love music or art the way we do. We won because we personally love music.

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Pretend to be completely in control and people will assume that you are.

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People who know what they're talking about don't need PowerPoint.

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The people who invented the twenty-first century were pot-smoking, sandal-wearing hippies from the West Coast like Steve, because they saw differently, he said. "The hierarchical systems of the East Coast, England, Germany, and Japan do not encourage this different thinking. The sixties produced an anarchic mind-set that is great for imagining a world not yet in existence.

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For some people, miracles serve as evidence of God's existence.

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