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- Privacy and security are those things you give up when you show the world what makes you extraordinary.
- Margaret Cho, Margaret Cho's Weblog, 07-05-04
- But all endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.
- Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet In Heaven, pg. 1 line 3-4
- Nerds don't just happen to dress informally. They do it too consistently. Consciously or not, they dress informally as a prophylactic measure against stupidity.
- Paul Graham, September 2004
- Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as "suits."
- Paul Graham, September 2004
- There's the country of America, which you have to defend, but there's also the idea of America. America is more than just a country, it's an idea. An idea that's supposed to be contagious.
- Bono (1960 - ), Oprah Winfrey Show, 2002
- In Ethiopia during the famine, I saw stuff there that reorganized how I saw the world. I didn't quite know what to do about it. At a certain point, I felt God is not looking for alms. God is looking for action.
- Bono (1960 - ), Oprah Winfrey Show, 2002
- Good writing takes more than just time; it wants your best moments and the best of you.
- Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com weblog, 10-09-04
- I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another.
- Ellen Goodman (1941 - )
- A moment's insight is sometimes worth a lifetime's experience.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
- No problem is too small or too trivial if we can really do something about it.
- Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988), Letter to Koichi Mano
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