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Our focus in the client group had always been to build products and features that people wanted to use. That we wanted to use. That our moms wanted to use.

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Siobhan Dowd

Knowledge can be like the skin on the surface of the water in a pond, or it can go all the way down to the mud. It can be the tiny tip of the iceberg or the whole hundred percent.

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Death is not a reaper, like they say, nor even a friend. It is a dark, fierce water, an inundation.

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has it ever occurred to you that where there is no anger, there is also no love?

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The studying, the books, exams, arguments, theories. The jokes and pints, laughter, kisses and songs. Life was like running, ninety percent sweat and toil, ten per cent joy.

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What goes up, must come down. . . Mustn't it?

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