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Square is turning informal, cash transactions, like you would do with a taco truck, into card swipes. Stripe is more for the Internet, it's focused on the kinds of transactions that weren't possible years ago. We think about how you would buy things from a mobile phone, crowd-funding, how should that work.

Patrick Collison

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Small samples in the centrifuge will spin at varying rates to create synthetic gravity, like the gravity of Mars or the gravity of the moon, and measure how the specimens respond within the centrifuge.

John L. Phillips

MoonSmallMeasureCreateGravity

If you say you're going to do something, you do it. If you start it, you finish it. Yes sir, no ma'am. And you've got to have that kind of structure in your life. It kind of helped me be that disciplined person that I am, whether it's with workouts, film or just the game of football.

Robert Griffin III

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I believe that whenever an overall view or theme is applied to an entire industry, bad decisions will be made.

John Zimmer

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Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own.

Ambrose Bierce

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Vietnam was really an idealistic thing to stop the spread of communism, which, incidentally, it did. It was a pretty costly way to do it, but it achieved its goal.

Tom Wolfe

CommunismGoalStopWaySpreadDid

I could be imagining it, but I believe myself to have exchanged sly, understanding nods with other people I see attending movies alone on Christmas Day.

Michelle Dean

AloneMyselfDayPeopleBelieveSee

When I was in college, all the pretty women were in the theatre, so I auditioned for a play.

Judd Nelson

WomenCollegeTheatrePlayPretty

My concerns have been about myself and not about giving something back and putting something in, even though that's been in the back of my head.

Donald Byrd

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I might enjoy writing some ghost stories set in Japan because their whole idea about the spirit world is so interesting.

William T. Vollmann

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I'm very picky and I'm in a situation where it's a big crossover.

Shia LaBeouf

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I would say on a creative level I put a lot of pressure on myself.

Shawn Ryan

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Putting a stamp on things just helps you say, 'Hey, yesterday I was there, and today I'm here.' It's another step forward, and it feels like another turning point and an unleashing of creativity, and now I'm going to start focusing on the show and the production, the fun stuff that comes with it.

Shania Twain

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