Quote by Bill Gates
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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Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy. – Bill Gates

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design
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This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50. – Bill Gates

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Business
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Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, its true. – Bill Gates

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Society therefore is an ancient as the world. – Voltaire

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Society

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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Society

We are now integrated into American society and I dont like the word fashionable, because fashionable means that its going to pass. Its not like that anymore. – Antonio Banderas

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Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn. – Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort

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Society

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Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions. – Roger Babson

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Habits change into character. – Ovid

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No country in the history of the world has ever contributed more to humankind and accomplished more for its people in so brief a period of time as Israel has done since its relatively recent rebirth in 1948. – Alan Dershowitz

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An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious — just dead wrong. – R.Baker

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