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Tuesday, September 28, 2004

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Via Scoble, this excellent icon site.

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"The unexamined life is not worth living."

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"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

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"No man is free who is not master of himself."

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"All cruelty springs from weakness"

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"I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious."

- Albert Einstein

"A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."

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Tuesday, September 28, 2004

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