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“Why do we so desire fame? Because we desire to matter.”

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Book:The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

Source: The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“No one appreciates anonymity as much as those who have lost it, and you only get to lose it once.”

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Book:The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

Source: The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“All fame is is being known by people you don’t know, and what’s so great about that?”

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Book:The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

Source: The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“Wealth and fame may be consequences of success, but they are not success itself. You want to be great? Great. Why?”

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Book:The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

Source: The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“If my family is the price of my success, then I am grateful to have had so little of it.”

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Book:The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

Source: The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“You may not have the power to do anything or everything you would like, but you do have the power to do something.”

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Book:The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

Source: The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“You should neither attempt to justify a bad risk because it turned out well nor regret too much a good risk that turned out badly.”

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Book:The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

Source: The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“Don’t fear high expectations; embrace them. Choose to do hard things.”

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Book:The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

Source: The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“Goals are, by definition, linked to sacrifices. A goal is a focus, and one cannot have a focus without excluding that which is outside that focus.”

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Book:The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

Source: The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“Your life is one giant, continuous sacrifice being poured out on the altar of your choosing, moment by moment and day by day.”

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Book:The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

Source: The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“You’ve been sacrificing your life for your entire life, and you will continue to do so until you have no more life left to sacrifice. Your only choice is what you sacrifice it to.”

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Book:The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

Source: The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“There is never the potential for success without a corresponding potential for failure.”

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Book:The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

Source: The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“Success and failure are derived not from anything you possess but rather by the things you do. Your successes and failures rest on your actions and your actions alone.”

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Book:The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

Source: The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“What discouraged me most from the goals of my youth were not my failures but my successes, that they proved so hollow.”

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Book:The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

Source: The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“Perhaps the only thing we might legitimately lament in an old man’s death would be his failure to have used his time well.”

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Book:The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

Source: The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

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