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A simple idea, a heartfelt desire, and a world of possibility. A pencil, a promise, and a dream.

Adam Braun

It’s the presence of others who are smarter, kinder, wiser, and different from you that enables you to evolve. Those are the people to surround yourself with at all times.
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Different Enable Different People Presence Smarter Surround Yourself
I could enjoy the life that I had by virtue of the educational attainment that my grandparents and parents had pursued. Education was always incredibly valued in our family.
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Attainment Educational Enjoy Family Grandparent Parent Virtue
I’m not a non-profit person. I think of myself as an entrepreneur who wants to work on global education.
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Entrepreneur Global Myself Non-Profit Person Think Thinking Wanted
In moments of uncertainty…i mmerse yourself in the life you would be most proud to live.
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Happen Life Live Proud Two Path Uncertainty
A simple idea, a heartfelt desire, and a world of possibility. A pencil, a promise, and a dream.
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Desire Dream Heartfelt Idea Pencil Possibility Promise Simple World
In moments of uncertainty, when you must chose between two paths, allowing yourself to be overcome by either the fear of failure or the dimly lit light of possibility, immerse yourself in the life you would be most proud to live.
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Allwowing Chose Light Path Two Uncertainty Yourself
They don’t come off. I walk into a lot of very high-level boardrooms now, and I present to distinguished conferences, but these bracelets remind me of the places I’ve been and the people I’ve met.
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Boardroom Come Conference Distinguished Level Lot Off Present
It is the local community that needs to own the commitment to education.
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Commitment Community Education Local Need Own
Each of the bracelets I wear is from a long trip I’ve taken. One is from Nicaragua. One is from Nepal. One is from Guatemala. One is from Laos.
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Bracelet Long People Taken Trip Wear
I asked a boy begging on the streets, ‘If you could have anything in the world, what would you want?’ and he answered me with two words: ‘A pencil.’ Luckily, I had one in my pocket, and in the second it took me to give it to him, a defining dream was born.
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Answered Anything Boy Luckily Pencil Pocket Street World
Make your life a story worth telling.
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Create Journey Life Make Story Success Telling Worth
I understood that I might fail, but I wouldn’t let it happen because I changed my compass along the way.
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Change Compass Easiest Failing might Understood Way
Make your life a story worth telling. You only get one shot at this existence, and one day when you’re gone the most important thing you’ll leave behind is the legacy of the life you lived.
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Day Existence Important Legacy Life One Story
When creating a business, does renting an office space now mean that you’re producing goods, training staff and generating revenues?
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Business Creating Good Office Producing Renting Space Staff Training
Many of us spend our entire lives in the same bubble – we surround ourselves with people who share our opinions, speak the way we speak, and look the way we look.
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Bubble Entire Leaving Ourselves People Surround
I realized that even big waves start with small ripples
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Big Bigger Even Realize Ripple Wave
We have the ability to provide quality education to every child on earth right now.
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Children Earth Now Provide Quality Right
For any movement to gain momentum, it must start with a small action.
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Action Any Event Gain Momentum Movement Small Start
It can sketch the future, give life to untold beauty, and communicate the full-force of our love and aspirations.
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Beauty Future Music Poetry Sketch Transcendent Untold Uplifting
Creating something new is easy, creating something that lasts is the challenge.
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Challenge Creating Easy Last Something
Think about it – most political campaigns are based around values. Barack Obama’s 2008 election campaign galvanized millions of youth behind two very clear values – hope and change.
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Around Campaign Country Election People Political Think Value Vote
Tourists see, and travelers seek.
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Adventure Journey Passion See Seek Tourist Traveler
We have every resource necessary to provide access to education for every child on the planet; we just need to commit to enabling it.
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Children Education Enabling Necessary Need Planet Resource
For any movement to gain momentum, it must start with a small action. This action becomes multiplied by the masses, and is made tangible when leadership changes course due to the weight of the movement’s voice.
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Action Become Momentum Movement Small Start Voice Weight
Your life should be a story you are excited to tell.
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Example Excited Life Motivation Stories Story Succes Tell
A major celebrity is a major brand, and major brands pick very critically what other brands they’re going to associate with. So an A-list celebrity usually picks an A-list brand.
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Band Brand Celebrity Critically List Major Over Pick
You never realize how much you value something until you are faced with the prospect of losing it.
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Losing Prospect Realize Realizing Something Value

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