“A big part of willpower is having something to aspire to, something to live for.”

— Mark Shuttleworth

Mark Shuttleworth Answers At Length, Slashdot, Collaborative interview, 2005-04-04, 2011-09-11, Timothy, Lord http://interviews.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/04/1859255&source=wikipedia,

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