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If everyone waited to do something good until they had purely unselfish motivations, no good would ever get done in the world. The point is to do it anyway.

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Wendy Mass
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: April 22
Author
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Livingston
New Jersey
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Purely
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Anyway
World
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Everyone
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