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When you see the world as it is, but insist on making it more like it could be, you matter.

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Seth
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 16
Cartoonist
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Gregory Gallant
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The paradox is that by the time you get to be senior, the decisions that matter the most are the ones that would be best made made by people who are junior.
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Rather than simply interrupting a television show with a commercial or barging into the consumer’s life with an unannounced phone call or letter, tomorrow’s marketer will first try to gain the consumer’s consent to participate in the selling process.
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Extraordinary benefits accrue to the tiny minority of people who are able to push just a tiny bit longer than most.
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The very fact that it might not work is precisely why you should and must do this.
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In basic terms, civilization is dependent upon the spontaneity and fulfillment of the individual. Your civilization is in sad straits. Not because you are allowed spontaneity or fulfillment to individuals, but because you are denied it, and because your institutions are based upon that premise.
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As an organization grows and succeeds, it sows the seeds of its own demise by getting boring.
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Now: For those of you who are lazy I can offer no hope: death will not bring you an eternal resting place. You may rest, if this is your wish, for a while. Not only must you use your abilities after death, however, but you must face up to yourself for those that you did not use during your previous existence.
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