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Percentage margins don't matter. What matters always is dollar margins: the actual dollar amount. Companies are valued not on their percentage margins, but on how many dollars they actually make, and a multiple of that.

Actual Actually Always Amount
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The thing that motivates me is a very common form of motivation. And that is, with other folks counting on me, it's so easy to be motivated.

Common Counting Easy Folks
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On the Internet, companies are scale businesses, characterized by high fixed costs and relatively low variable costs. You can be two sizes: You can be big, or you can be small. It's very hard to be medium. A lot of medium-sized companies had the financing rug pulled out from under them before they could get big.

Before Big Businesses Characterized
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A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.

Back Become Brothers Brothers And Sisters
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Mediocre theoretical physicists make no progress. They spend all their time understanding other people's progress.

Make Mediocre Other People
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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Doing Greatest Growing Learning
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Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.

Above Great Great Minds Little
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Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.

Almost Create Disadvantage Every
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It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.

Between Come Empty End
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HIV does not make people dangerous to know, so you can shake their hands and give them a hug: Heaven knows they need it.

HIV Does Not People
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Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Everyone Us Needs Show
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We've had three big ideas at Amazon that we've stuck with for 18 years, and they're the reason we're successful: Put the customer first. Invent. And be patient.

Amazon Big Customer First
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I don't think that you can invent on behalf of customers unless you're willing to think long-term, because a lot of invention doesn't work. If you're going to invent, it means you're going to experiment, and if you're going to experiment, you're going to fail, and if you're going to fail, you have to think long term.

Because Behalf Customers Experiment
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There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

Adversity Broad Dark Daylight
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What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you - what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind - you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn't a strategy.

Against Always Around Because
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The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.

Hero His Idol Our
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If your customer base is aging with you, then eventually you are going to become obsolete or irrelevant. You need to be constantly figuring out who are your new customers and what are you doing to stay forever young.

Aging Base Become Constantly
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Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

Age Constant Grows Never
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The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.

Affliction Brood Cherish Consider
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People will visit Mars, they will settle mars, and we should because it's cool.

Because Cool Mars People
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There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.

About Communion Contact Dignity
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I have won this lottery. It's a gigantic lottery, and it's called Amazon.com. And I'm using my lottery winnings to push us a little further into space.

Further Gigantic Little Lottery
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We will have to leave this planet, and we're going to leave it, and it's going to make this planet better.

Better Going Leave Make
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Rising genius always shoots out its rays from among the clouds, but these will gradually roll away and disappear as it ascends to its steady luster.

Always Among Away Clouds
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Today I continue with my science-fiction reading habit and find it very mind-expanding. Always makes me think.

Always Continue Find Habit
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Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.

Abroad Apt Discipline Home
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I read 'The High Frontier' in high school. I read it multiple times, and I was already primed. As soon as I read it, it made sense to me. It seemed very clear that planetary surfaces were not the right place for an expanding civilization inside our solar system.

Civilization Clear Expanding Frontier
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When we build our own colonies, we can do them in near-Earth vicinity, because people are going to want to come back to Earth. Very few people - for a long time, anyway - are going to want to abandon Earth altogether.

Abandon Altogether Anyway Back
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We have the resources to build room for a trillion humans in this solar system, and when we have a trillion humans, we'll have a thousand Einsteins and a thousand Mozarts. It will be a way more interesting place to live.

Build Humans Interesting Live
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You cannot make a giant space company in your dorm room. Not today. And the reason is that the heavy lifting infrastructure isn't in place.

Cannot Company Dorm Giant
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The question really is, are you improving the world? And you can do that in many models. You can do that in government, you can do that in a nonprofit, and you can do it in commercial enterprise.

Commercial Enterprise Government Improving
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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
Back Flow Heart Lost
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No matter what your mission is, have some notion in your head. Forget the model, whether it's government or nonprofit or profit. Ask yourself the more important question: Is my mission improving the world? Are you sure about it? Seek to disconfirm that all the time. And if you can, change your mission.

About Ask Change Forget
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Of course humans like to explore, and we should. There's nothing wrong with that. But it's more than that. It's essential for your children and your children's children.

Children Course Essential Explore
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Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No - no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears.

Community Continually Ears Ever
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The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.

Dead Effect Elevate Mind
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There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations.

Delights Fills Majesty Noble
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There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.

Contrition Deep Eloquently Grief
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You just try to play tough and focus point for point. Sounds so boring, but it's the right thing to do out there.

Boring Focus Just Out
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The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by stratagem.

Course Effected Enemy Harm
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You know, a lot of things changed. What never changed is the illusion to keep playing tennis, the illusion to keep doing well the things, and the illusion to be in a good position of the ranking and play these kind of matches.

Changed Doing Good Illusion
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A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
Age Constant Grows Never
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An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.

Gifts Good Good Nature Heaven
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Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.
Enmity Felicity Marriage Strife
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I've had it with you and your emotional constipation!

Emotional Had You Your
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He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.

He Heart Imagination Senses
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After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without; and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence, though deficient in personal charms, than I have been by the most regular beauty.

After Beauty Been Charms
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There is certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Bad Bruised Certain Change
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The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the charm fades on a nearer approach, and the thorns and briars become visible.

Approach Become Charm Distance
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Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant.

Abundant Companionship Equal Good
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