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A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, bu

A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited its less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society. – Bill Gates

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In inner-city, low-income communities of color, theres such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success. – Bill Gates

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Its fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure. – Bill Gates

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If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesnt have tenure. – Bill Gates

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I knew that I did not have to buy into societys notion that I had to be handsome and healthy to be happy. I was in charge of my spaceship and it was my up, my down. I could choose to see this situation as a setback or as a starting point. I chose to begin life again. – Warren Mitchell

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When youve paid your debt to society, you need to be reconnected and re-engaged in society. – Tom Vilsack

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There are many things that people do happily that I cant imagine why they would do it… But I have to say that even though I am critical or judgmental of society at large, Im not critical of people individually. We are who we are. – Ian MacKaye

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I was training to be a lawyer… I was president of the law society at Glasgow University, and my bass guitarist was my secretary of my law society the lead guitarist and writer worked at the law firm that I worked. – Gerard Butler

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History can never be covered up. – Zhu Rongji

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What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain. – Victor Hugo

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Any workout which does not involve a certain minimum of danger or responsibility does not improve the body – it just wears it out. – Norman Mailer

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Lost in a gloom of uninspired research. – William Wordsworth

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