"Your school may have done away with winners……" — Bill Gates
"Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life has not. In some schools they have abolished failing grades; they'll give you as many chances as you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHIN"
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621 Quotes by Bill Gates
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Two years from now, spam will be solved.
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Robots will play an important role in providing physical assistance and even companionship for the elderly.
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Paper is no longer a big part of my day. I get 90% of my news online, and when I…
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The best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other…
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The Internet? We are not interested in it
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Sometimes we do get taken by surprise. For example, when the Internet came along, we had it as a fifth…
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We had planned to integrate a Web browser with our operating system as far back as 1993( filing its first…
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More Abolished Quotes
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
— Aristophanes
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A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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We have abolished the death penalty for humans, so why should it continue for animals?
— Brigitte Bardot
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The year 2008 was a reminder to those who had forgotten that there is such a thing as history and…
— James Buchan
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Relegating women to second-class citizenship was abolished when Jesus died on the cross.
— Tony Campolo
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Some few, & I am one, even wish to God, though at the loss of millions of lives, that the…
— Charles Darwin
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In Italy, the Inquisition was condemning people to death until the end of the eighteenth century, and inquisitional torture was…
— Carl Sagan
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War cannot be humanized. It can only be abolished.
— Albert Einstein
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When fortune has been abolished, when every profession is open to everyone, an ambitious man may think it is easy…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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Charity should be abolished; and be replaced by justice.
— Norman Bethune
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The People's Liberation Army is always a fighting force. Even after countrywide victory, our army will remain a fighting force…
— Mao Zedong
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Happiness is yours in the here and now. The painful states of anxiety and loneliness are abolished permanently. Financial affairs…
— Vernon Howard
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