"We are our choices. Build yourself a great story."

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Source : Jeff Bezos' Commencement Address at Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey, www.princeton.edu. May 30, 2010.

Jeff Bezos

#Choices Quotes #Stories Quotes

“The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer...form the great body of the people of the United States they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Everything in the universe is constantly changing, and nothing stays the same, and we must understand how quickly time flows by if we are to wake up and truly live our lives.”
“Voting wouldn't excite me unless it included electing the directors of the big banks and corporations, who make the real decisions that affect our lives. It's hard to get excited about the trained seals in Washington.”

Source : Source: theanarchistlibrary.org
“In other words, let's give our young women the right weapons to fight with as they charge naked into battle, instead of ordering them to get back in the house and put some ***** clothes on.”
“Society mediates between the extremes of, on the one hand, intolerably strict morality and, on the other, dangerously anarchic permissiveness through an unspoken agreement whereby we are given leave to bend the rules of the strictest morality, provided we do so quietly and discreetly. Hypocrisy is the grease that keeps society functioning in an agreeable way, by allowing for human fallibility and reconciling the seemingly irreconcilable human needs for order and pleasure.”

Source : "The Journalist and the Murderer". Book by Janet Malcolm, 1989.
“Someone who eats pancakes and jam can't be so awfully dangerous. You can talk to him.”
“When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.”
“I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.”

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