"Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose."
-Bill Gates
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"A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.“
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"Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning."
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"I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot."
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"Life is not fair get used to it."
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"Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important."
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"Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning."
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"Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all."
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"Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another."
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