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#Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.   #The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of. Amazing developments in communications, collaboration and efficiencies. New kinds of entertainment and social media. Access to information and the ability to give a voice people who would never have been heard.   #We all need people who will give us feedback. That's how we improve.   #Certainly I'll never be able to put myself in the situation that people growing up in the less developed countries are in. I've gotten a bit of a sense of it by being out there and meeting people and talking with them.   #What's amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It's so far away in time that they can't appreciate what it means for their whole life.   #I think it's fair...

Valentine's Day, also called Saint Valentine's Day or the Feast of Saint Valentine, is an annual holiday celebrated on February 14. It originated as a Western Christian liturgical feast day honoring one or more early saints named Valentinus, and is recognized as a significant cultural and commercial celebration in many regions around the world, although it is not a public holiday in any country. Several martyrdom stories associated with the various Valentines that were connected to February 14 were added to later martyrologies,including a popular hagiographical account of Saint Valentine of Rome which indicated he was imprisoned for performing weddings for soldiers who were forbidden to marry and for ministering to Christians, who were persecuted under the Roman Empire. According to legend, during his imprisonment, Saint Valentine healed the daughter of his jailer, Asterius, and before his execution, he wrote her a letter signed "Your Valentine" as a fa...

1-Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war. 2-I judge people based on their capability, honesty, and merit. 3-I'm competitive, and I love to create challenges for myself. Maybe that's not always a good thing. It can make life complicated. 4-I think Ronald Reagan was one of the great presidents, period, not just recently. I thought he had the demeanor. I thought he had the bearing. I thought he had the thought process. 5-As long as you're going to be thinking anyway, think big. 6-I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's where the fun is. 7-You know the funny thing, I don't get along with rich people. I get along with the middle class and the poor people better than I get along with the rich people. 8-Sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make. 9-What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twi...