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Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us.
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Was he smart? No, not exceptionally. Instead, he was a genius.
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For some people, miracles serve as evidence of God's existence.
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In an advertising-only revenue model, the incentive is perverse.
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People who know what they're talking about don't need PowerPoint.
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Politics is for the present, while our equations are for eternity.
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One way to remember who you are is to remember who your heroes are.
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Never let a passion for the perfect take precedence over pragmatism.
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Pretend to be completely in control and people will assume that you are.
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There are parts of his life and personality that are extremely messy, and that's the truth.
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Physics should represent a reality in time and space, free from spooky action at a distance.
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I had no idea what i wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out.
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He would withhold information and even allow a listener to be misled—which comes close to the definition of deceit.
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Polite and velvety leaders, who take care to avoid bruising others, are generally not as effective at forcing change.
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Sometimes, to relieve stress, he would soak his feet in the toilet, a practice that was not as soothing for his colleagues.
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Picasso had a saying - 'good artists copy, great artists steal' - and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.
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You should never start a company with the goal of getting rich. Your goal should be making something you believe in and making a company that will last.
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Simply handing over your iPod to a friend, your blind date, or the total stranger sitting next to you on the plane opens you up like a book." (Steven Levy)
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I think different religions are different doors to the same house. Sometimes I think the house exists, and sometimes I don't. It's the great mystery. (Steve Jobs)
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Asked about the fact that Apple's iTunes software for Windows computers was extremely popular, Jobs joked, 'It's like giving a glass of ice water to somebody in hell.
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I discovered that the best innovation is sometimes the company, the way you organize a company. The whole notion of how you build a company is fascinating." Steve Jobs
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The reality distortion field was a confounding mélange of a charismatic rhetorical style, indomitable will, and eagerness to bend any fact to fit the purpose at hand.
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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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Digital technology is doing more to shape our politics than anything since Gutenberg's introduction of the printing press helped Europe usher in the Protestant Reformation.
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When Web advertising declined in the fourth quarter of 2008, free felt like the future of journalism only in the sense that a steep cliff is the future for a herd of lemmings.
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Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
Robert F. Kennedy
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May 20, 1952
(age 71)
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