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Think about this: It was illegal for most people to connect to the internet before 1992.

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Steve Case
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: August 21
Businessperson
Chief Executive Officer
Entrepreneur
Honolulu
Hawaii
Stephen McConnell Steve Case
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Nowadays people seem to switch schools, either because they have to, and certain schools only serve certain grades, or because they move to a different place or have some particular interest, but I was in the same school for 13 years
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You really need to believe that you are on to something important.
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In the end, a vision without the ability to execute it is probably a hallucination.
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