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What will matter in the end is not what you bought but what you built not what you got but what you gave not what you learned by what you taught. What will matter is not your competence but your character.
Michael Josephson
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Michael Josephson
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: December 10
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In life, we all get scored on every day. The wonderful thing is, if we do our best with courage and tenacity, we might be outscored but we can never be beaten.
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If we keep treating our most important values as meaningless relics, that's exactly what they'll become.
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