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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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Me and my dad are the biggest promoters of an estate tax in the US. Its not a popular position. – Bill Gates

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Digital reading will completely take over. Its lightweight and its fantastic for sharing. Over time it will take over. – Bill Gates

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Although I dont have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way. – Bill Gates

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The real point is that totalitarian regimes have claimed jurisdiction over the whole person, and the whole society, and they dont at all believe that we should give unto Caesar that which is Caesars and unto God that which is Gods. – Jeane Kirkpatrick

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If anything needs to get fixed in society, its peoples consumption of other peoples problems. – Corey Feldman

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Tolerance is the price we pay for living in a free, pluralistic society. – Robert Casey

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In all of our society, but especially in Hollywood, there is an obsession with perfection that can lead to self-loathing and neurosis and all that kind of stuff. – Ethan Hawke

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[O]n hill and valley and stream, is lain the spell of silence; and the deep stillness of the air is unbroken… – Elizabeth J. Eames, “An Autumn Reverie,” October 1840

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He that waits for a dead mans shoes may long go barefoot. – Proverb

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Faith is the black persons federal reserve system. – Hattie McDaniel

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In the next 10 years, I expect at least five billion people worldwide to own smartphones, giving every individual with such a phone instant access to the full power of the Internet, every moment of every day. – Marc Andreessen

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