The opportunity of a lifetime is to pick yourself. Quit waiting to get picked; quit waiting for someone … - Seth Godin

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How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself.

Seth Godin

The opportunity of a lifetime is to pick yourself. Quit waiting to get picked; quit waiting for someone to give you permission; quit waiting for someone to say you are officially qualified. . . and pick yourself.

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Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don't need to escape from.

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People who make a difference never wait for just the right time. They know that it will never arrive.

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If we can fall in love with serving people, creating value, solving problems, building valuable connections and doing work that matters, it makes it far more likely we're going to do important work

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There's a big difference between not settling and not starting.

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You can listen to what people say, sure. But you will be far more effective if you listen to what people do.

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Hope I lived up to my reputation for being slick.

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The international equity question arises from the costs of climate change itself and mitigation varying greatly across countries. It is affected by the historical responsibility for current greenhouse gas emissions, which countries which were not responsible for what's in the atmosphere now think are very important. Currently rich countries don't think those issues are very important.

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I have known lots of millionaires who were not happy men; they had not got all they wanted and therefore had failed to find success in life. A Singalese proverb says: "He who is happy is rich, but it does not follow that he who is rich is happy. " The really rich man is the man who has fewest wants.

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