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We have every resource necessary to provide access to education for every child on the planet; we just need to commit to enabling it.

Adam Braun

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 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
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
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
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
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
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
Creating something new is easy, creating something that lasts is the challenge.
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Challenge Creating Easy Last Something
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 it comes to fundraising for a social enterprise, if you are pursuing your true passion, you’ll learn to become great at your craft because you’ll care so much about perfecting the skills necessary to make that dream a reality.
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Dream Enterprise Passion Reality Social True
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Never take no from somebody who cannot say yes.
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Advice Allow Cannot never No Somebody Speak Take Yes
The single most powerful element of youth is that you don’t have the life experiences to know what can’t be done.
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Done Element Experience Life Powerful
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
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
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
It can sketch the future, give life to untold beauty, and communicate the full-force of our love and aspirations.
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I realized that even big waves start with small ripples
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Big Bigger Even Realize Ripple Wave
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

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