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Make enough mole hills, and eventually you will build a mountain.

Be with the ones you love (and the ones that love you.) Ignore everyone else.

Just about every great, brave or beautiful thing in our culture was created by someone who didn't do it for money.

New fashions (of all sorts) come from unexpected places, not from the arbiters of what's correct.

Marketing tells a story that spreads. Sales overcomes the natural resistance to say yes.

Soon is not as good as now.