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Walter Isaacson
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: May 20
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...never let a passion for the perfect take precedence over pragmatism.
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i had no idea what i wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out.
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Otherwise, as Dylan says, if you're not busy being born, you're busy dying.
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