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You can always change you plan, but only if you have one.

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Randy Pausch
Age: 47 †
Born: 1960
Born: October 23
Died: 2008
Died: July 25
Computer Scientist
Motivational Speaker
Pedagogue
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University Teacher
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Baltimore
Maryland
Randy Frederick Pausch
Randy F. Pausch
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if you offer wisdom from a third party, it seems less arrogant and more acceptable.
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To be cliché, death is a part of life and it's going to happen to all of us. I have the blessing of getting a little bit of advance notice and I am able to optimize my use of time down the home stretch.
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We can't change it. We have to decide how we'll respond.
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The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.
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The questions are always more important than the answers.
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Advice is very easy to give, and even easier not to follow, so I don't fool with it.
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No matter how bad things are, you can always make things worse. At the same time, it is often within your power to make them better
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I'll take an earnest person over a hip person every day, because hip is short-term, earnest is long term.
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We don't beat the reaper by living longer, but by living well, and living fully - for the reaper will come for all of us. The question is: what do we do between the time we're born and the time he shows up.
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A parent's job is to encourage kids to develop a joy for life and a great urge to follow their own dreams. The best we can do is to help thm develop a personal set of tools for the task.
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Find the best in everybody, no matter how long you have to wait for them to show it
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