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"It does not make sense to hire smart people and then tell them what to do. We hire smart people so they can tell us what to do."
-- Steve Jobs

"If you are honest and fair as you can be, not only in business but in life, things will work out."
-- Kate Spade

"You go out there and show the best story you can as best you can. If it's interesting to you, hopefully it's interesting to others. If you don't make television like that, it's pandering."
-- Anthony Bourdain

"A really carelessly made burger by a large cynical large company, the contempt implicit in that transaction can really send me into a spiral of depression that will last for day."
-- Anthony Bourdain

"To my children: Never make fun of having to help me with computer stuff. I taught you how to use a spoon."
-- Sue Fitzmaurice

"Whatever drives your passion, be the last to accept the notion that the world you inherit cannot be improved. Be the last to accept the excuse that says that’s just how things are done here."
-- Tim Cook

"There will be some days when you just might be bored. Other days you may not feel like going to work at all. Go anyway."
-- Oprah Winfrey

"Approval from the people we admire is sweet, but it’s not enough to be the foundation of a happy life."
-- Gretchen Rubin

"Animals are the bridge between us and the beauty of all that is natural. They show us what's missing in our lives, and how to love ourselves more completely and unconditionally. They connect us back to who we are, and to the purpose of why we're here."
-- Trisha McCagh

"Once I was able to sit down at the end of the event and see the response from Twitter and read what was in Mark Zuckerberg's notes, I realized this was pretty important information."
-- Andrew Harnik

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The tongue like a sharp knife... Kills without drawing blood.

-- Buddha

Make your life a mission - not an intermission.

-- Arnold H. Glasgow

But in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

-- Benjamin Franklin

After the greatest clouds, the sun.

-- Alan of Lille

When I look back now over my life and call to mind what I might have had simply for taking and did not take, my heart is like to break.

-- Akhenaton

For not many men, the proverb saith, can love a friend whom fortune prospereth unenvying.

-- Aeschylus

I'm not someone who tends to turn to government first to solve every problem, and I support hunters and gun rights. But I think it should be illegal to intentionally kill any endangered species.

-- David Morgenstern

Nature is the glass reflecting God, as by the sea reflected is the sun, too glorious to be gazed on in his sphere.

-- Brigham Young

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know what you know.
And you are the one who'll decide where you'll go.
Oh the places you'll go.

-- Theodor Seuss Geisel

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