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Randy Pausch
Age: 47 †
Born: 1960
Born: October 23
Died: 2008
Died: July 25
Computer Scientist
Motivational Speaker
Pedagogue
Professor
University Teacher
Writer
Baltimore
Maryland
Randy Frederick Pausch
Randy F. Pausch
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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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We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.
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Go out and do for others what somebody did for you.
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Just because you're in the driver's seat, doesn't mean you have to run people over.
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We can't change it. We have to decide how we'll respond.
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If you can find an opening, you can probably find a way to float through it.
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I'm a professor - there should be some lessons learned - and how you can use the stuff you hear today to enable your dreams or enable the dreams of others. And as you get older you may find that enabling-the-dreams-of-others thing is even more fun.
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It's a thrill to fulfill your own childhood dreams, but as you get older, you may find that enabling the dreams of others is even more fun.
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I feel like I'm waiting on something that isn't going to happen Don't complain just work harder.
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if you offer wisdom from a third party, it seems less arrogant and more acceptable.
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I didn't know there was a dying-professor section at the bookstore.
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Your patience will be both appreciated and rewarded
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