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“It's great if you can find what you love to do. Finding it is one thing, but then to be able to practise that and be preoccupied with that is another.” quote by Jonathan Ive — Download Open image

“It's great if you can find what you love to do. Finding it is one thing, but then to be able to practise that and be preoccupied with that is another.”

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