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Last words of celebrity â€" gods they would be called in old Greece â€" are important. In his last conference Steve Jobs, dedicating his landmark building in California, said, “The spaceship has landed.” As often with Jobs it is thought-provoking and suggests something else. Andrew Breitbart had some significant last words as well, screaming them at a bunch of young people who were demonstrating against the rich: “You are freaks and animals!” he shouted at them, distorted in scorn and laughter. I was reminded of Gen. Colin Powell, who wrote in his autobiography about returning from a second tour in Vietnam and visiting the Pentagon, shocked to see thousands, hundreds of thousands, of young people railing against America. His response was compassion and understanding and he vowed to live his life to make these young ones love America as he did.

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