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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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To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it.

-- Aristotle

The world is so fast that there are days when the person who says it can't be done is interrupted by the person who is doing it.

-- Alcoholics Anonymous Prayer

I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against. I'm a human being first and foremost, and as such I am for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.

-- Malcolm X

There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.

-- Arthur C. Clarke

It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose.

-- Boris Pasternak

Living hell is the best revenge.

-- Adrienne E. Gusoff

This religion (Islam) recognizes all men as brothers. It accepts all human beings as equals before God, and as equal members in the Human Family of Mankind.

-- Malcolm X

A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts as the results of sudden impulses and accident, than of the reason of which we so much boast.

-- Albert Cooper

All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral, or fattening.

-- Alexander Woollcott

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