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In those moments when priorities clash always stay guided by your values, not your perceived necessities.

Adam Braun

It always surprises me when donors who operate successful businesses assume that just building a school structure means that a community now has access to education.
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Building Bussiness Donor Mean Office Space School Successful Surprise
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 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
As our values are the core to who we are as human beings, they are also the easiest way to identify and connect with others in meaningful ways.
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Core Easiest Human Being Identification Meaningful Thinking Two Value
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
It is the local community that needs to own the commitment to education.
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Commitment Community Education Local Need Own
We fear leaving those familiar surroundings, which is natural, but through exploration of the unfamiliar we stop focusing on the labels that define WHAT we are and discover WHO we are.
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Familiar Fear Leaving Natural Overcome Surrounding Unfamiliar
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
Made with Pencils is grounded in the creativity of a few, propelled by the financial support of many, and most importantly, it’s empowering generations to come.
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Creativity Dream Financial Grounded Made Pencil Simple Support
I realized that even big waves start with small ripples
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Big Bigger Even Realize Ripple Wave
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
That’s when the magic happens- when everyone else is asleep and you’re awake thinking about the world as it is, and the world as it could be. Make the most of those moments.
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Asleep Awake Happen Magic Think Thinking World
Make your life a story worth telling.
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Create Journey Life Make Story Success Telling Worth
I looked around and acknowledged that what you see around you is proof of what exists within you.
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Acknowledged Around Exist Looked Proof Within Yourself
Your twenties are the time to both accept and fight your way into the person you’re destined to become.
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Accept Both Destiny Fighting Person Time Twenties Way
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

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