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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.

Randy Pausch

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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
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Randy Frederick Pausch
Randy F. Pausch
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It's not helpful if we spend every day dreading tomorrow ~Jai
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somehow, with the passage of time, and the dealines that life imposes, surrending became the right thing to do
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Your patience will be both appreciated and rewarded
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I am going to keep having fun every day I have left, because there is no other way of life. You just have to decide whether you are a Tigger or an Eeyore.
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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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I know you're smart. But everyone here is smart. Smart isn't enough. The kind of people I want on my research team are those who will help everyone feel happy to be here.
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Don’t complain just work harder.
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We've placed a lot of emphasis in this country on the idea of people's rights. That's how it should be, but it makes no sense to talk about rights without also talking about responsibilities.
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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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Respect authority while questioning it.
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