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My first job, which I had to take when not more than fifteen, was assistant to a fruit peddler. It seemed all… — Vash Young Copy Share Image
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Having grown up in the Middle East, eating beans for breakfast always seemed like a bizarre British eccentricity. — Yotam Ottolenghi Copy Share Image
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I had no inclination to perform as a kid. I was a shy child - I always had my nose in a… — Colman Domingo Copy Share Image
In 2007, there weren't any other accelerators, at least that I was aware of. We were almost the prototypical Y Combinator founders:… — Patrick Collison Copy Share Image
In high school I became a vegetarian more times than I can now remember, most often as an effort to claim some… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
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And I seemed to discern a power and meaning in the old, which the more impassioned would not allow. — Frederick Henry Hedge Copy Share Image
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