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Freedom is what beauty feels like when it can most express itself.

Jacqueline Novogratz

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Jacqueline Novogratz
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: March 15
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the United States of America
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Just start Don't wait for perfection. Just start and let the work teach you.
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What we call people so often distances us from them, and makes them little.
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