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"But there is a corollary to freedom and that's personal responsibility, and the real challenge is how you generate that personal responsibility without imposing it."
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"We are the mountains we must cross."

"The greater your destiny the greater your troubles."

"The more difficult a problem is, the more discoveries you make in the process of resolving it."

"The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests."

"If it doesn't challenge you, it won't change you!"

"It's a challenge between me and the hurdle, and the hurdle has always won."

"There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful at times, for both of us."

"I challenge myself everywhere, onstage, on the golf course. Hey, isn't that the point of it all? To keep getting better? Otherwise why do it?"
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"In the space of three weeks, I met a fair bunch of the guys who were just starting those little programmers' co-ops, and everybody was talking about starting businesses."

"And the Russians certainly don't have it. If a woman shows up in a fur coat, I just assume she's a crook. And that's me, the nice American. The assumption that you can't make money honestly is a killer."

"Don't leave hold of your common sense. Think about what you're doing and how the technology can enhance it. Don't think about technology first."

"In the sense that people who produce things and work get rewarded, statistically. You don't get rewarded precisely for your effort, but in Russia you got rewarded for being alive, but not very well rewarded."

"Part of the problem is when we bring in a new technology we expect it to be perfect in a way that we don't expect the world that we're familiar with to be perfect."

"It may not always be profitable at first for businesses to be online, but it is certainly going to be unprofitable not to be online."

"I've seen disgusting excess in business, and I've seen disgusting excess in Washington. But at the same time, I've certainly learned that Washington matters and that you can't ignore it, especially when you get into telecom."

"As long as a government can come and shoot you, you can't jump on the Internet to freedom."
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