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Fortune does favor the bold and you'll never know what you're capable of if you don't try.

Sheryl Sandberg

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Sheryl Sandberg
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: August 28
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Sheryl Kara Sandberg
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All of us want the same things. We want to be good to the people around us and for our lives to have meaning. For me that means making the world a little bit easier for women.
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