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" I'm an optimist. "
Rick Smolan
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" I was voted least likely to manage a business when I was at Dickinson College. "
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" I find Facebook absolutely fascinating because I don't think there's ever been any one source that had so much information about each of us - who we talk to, who our friends are, what books we read, what we're buying, what movies we saw, what our travel is. "
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