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I don’t consider myself an activist, but I realize how much I’ve benefited from the sacrifice of others.

Tim Cook

No matter what you do next, the world needs your energy, your passion, your impatience for progress. Don’t shrink from risk. And tune out those critics and cynics.
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Critics Cynics Energy Impatience Matter Need Next Passion Progress Risk Shrink Tune
So I had to figure out for myself what was right and true. It was a search. It was a process. It drew on the moral sense that I’d learned from my parents, and in church, and in my own heart, and led me on my own journey of discovery.
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You are more powerful than you think.
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Energy More Positive Powerful Think
We’re very simple people at Apple. We focus on making the world’s best products and enriching people’s lives.
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Apple Best Docus Enrich Live Make People Product Simple World
You can focus on things that are barriers or you can focus on scaling the wall or redefining the problem.
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Barries Focus Problem Redefine Scale Thing
History rarely yields to one person, but think, and never forget, what happens when it does. That can be you. That should be you. That must be you.
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Forget Happen History One Person Yield
Without encryption, you and I wouldn’t be able to do our banking online.
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Able Banking Encryption Online
Discrimination isn’t something that’s easy to oppose. It doesn’t always stare you in the face. It moves in the shadows. And sometimes it shrouds itself within the very laws meant to protect us.
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Always Discrimination Face Move Protect Something Sometimes Stare
I just want to build great products.
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Build Great Product Want
An acorn would never brag about giving shade.
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Corn Giving never Shade
There are times in all of our lives when a reliance on gut or intuition just seems more appropriate – when a particular course of action just feels right.
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Action All Appropriate Course Feel Gut Intuition Live Particular Reliance Right Seem Times
Graduates, your values matter. They are your north star. And work takes on new meaning when you feel you’re pointed in the right direction. Otherwise, it’s just a job. And life is too short for that.
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Direction Graduate Job Matter Meaning New North Otherwise Point Right Star Value Work
I personally admire Steve Jobs not most for what he did, or what he said, but for what he stood for.
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Admire Country Most People Personally Said Stood
Certainly some things that are very good can sometimes be used in a bad way.
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Bad Certainty Good Some Sometimes Use Very Way
I think that [there is] this fundamental right to privacy and the philosophy that government shouldn’t be intrusive.
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A few years ago, users of Internet services began to realize that when an online service is free, you’re not the customer. You’re the product.
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Ago Began Online Customer Interest Product Service User Year

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