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“You are in every line I have ever read.”
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“Achieving meaningful goals requires that you commit your entire ass, not just one cheek.”
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“Higher education is the place where people who had big plans in high school get stuck in fierce rivalries with equally smart peers over conventional careers like management consulting and investment banking. For the privilege of being turned into conformists, students (or their families) pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in skyrocketing tuition that continues to outpace inflation. Why are we doing this to ourselves?”
Source : Peter Thiel, Blake Masters (2014). “Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future”, p.31, Crown Business
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“If there's anything to learn from the history of movies, it's that corruption leads to further corruption, not to innocence.”
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“Strip the proud nobility of their bloated estates, reduce them to a level with plain republicans, send forth to labor, and teach their children to enter the workshops or handle the plow, and you will thus humble proud traitors.”
Source : Thaddeus Stevens (1998). “The Selected Papers of Thaddeus Stevens, Volume 2: April 1865-August 1868”, p.108, University of Pittsburgh Pre
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“Some of his own closeness to nature, his great love for human beings, was passed on by Whitman to all of us who knew and loved him.”
Source : Ella Reeve Bloor (1940). “We are Many: An Autobiography by Ella Reeve Bloor”, New York : International Publishers
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“It just inspires me to release an album and know that I can work on a core fanbase. The grind: Just make good music and it translates.”
Source : Source: theboombox.com
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“If a man were living in isolation his income would be literally his product. Make him the monarch and owner of an island, and the fruits that he raises and the clothing that he makes constitute, in themselves, his income. This ceases to be true when trading begins.”