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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.

Adam Braun

The most abundant resources that we possess amongst the 1.5 million nonprofits in the United States are passion and knowledge, yet our most scarce resource is collaboration.
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Abutant Collaboration Country Nonprofit Passion Resource
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
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
Your life should be a story you are excited to tell.
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Example Excited Life Motivation Stories Story Succes Tell
Every person has a revolution beating within his or her chest
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Beating Chest People Person Revolution
Speak the language of the person you want to become.
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Create Language Making Person Speak Time Want
What can a pencil do for all of us? Amazing things. It can write transcendent poetry, uplifting music, or life-changing equations
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Amazing Art Inspiring Pencil Poetry Transcendent Uplifting
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 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
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
I realized that even big waves start with small ripples
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Big Bigger Even Realize Ripple Wave
Creating something new is easy, creating something that lasts is the challenge.
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Challenge Creating Easy Last Something
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
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
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
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 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
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
Tourists see, and travelers seek.
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Adventure Journey Passion See Seek Tourist Traveler
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
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
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
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’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
Make sure you make it a story you’re proud to have others tell.
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Make Motivation Creativity Other Proud Story Success Sure Tell
Big Dreams start with small unreasonable acts
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Act Big Dream Small Start Unreasonable
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

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