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• You can't control the cards you're dealt, just how you play the hand.

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  Hands, Cards You're Dealt, Play

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• Want to have a short phone call with someone? Call them at 11:55 a.m., right before lunch. They'll talk fast. You may think you are interesting, but you are not more interesting than lunch.

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  Thinking, Phones, Lunch

  Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2008). “The Last Lecture”, p.173, Hachette UK

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• Don’t complain; just work harder.

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  Success, Cards You're Dealt, Complaining

  Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2008). “The last lecture”, Hyperion Books

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• A good apology is like antibiotic, a bad apology is like rubbing salt in the wound.

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  Apology, Antibiotics, Salt

  "The Last Lecture". Book by Jeffrey Zaslow and Randy Pausch, 2008.

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• Not everything needs to be fixed

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  Needs, Fixed

  Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2008). “The Last Lecture”, p.141, Hachette UK

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• Find the best in everybody, no matter how long you have to wait for them to show it

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  Long, Waiting, Matter

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• If nobody ever worried about what was in other people's heads, we’d all be 33 percent more effective in our lives and our jobs.

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  Jobs, People, Last Lecture

  Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2008). “The last lecture”, Hyperion Books

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• If you’re going to have childhood dreams you should have great parents who let you pursue them and express your creativity

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  Dream, Creativity, Should Have

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• Never make a decesion until you have to". He'd also warn me that even if I was in a position of strenght, whether at work or in a relationship, I had to play fair. "Just because you're in the driver's seat, doesn't mean you have to run people over.

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  Running, Mean, Play

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• Experience is often the most valuable thing you have to offer.

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  Last Lecture, Valuable, Valuable Things

  Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2008). “The Last Lecture”, p.234, Hachette UK

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• The person who failed often knows how to avoid future failures.

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  Pitfalls, Persons, Know How

  Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2008). “The last lecture”, Hyperion Books

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• Brick walls are there for a reason. They give us a chance to show how badly we want

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  Happiness, Success, Perseverance

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• Give yourself permission to dream. Fuel your kids' dreams too. Once in a while, that might even mean letting them stay up past their bedtimes.

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  Dream, Mean, Kids

  Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2008). “The last lecture”, Hyperion Books

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• Advice is very easy to give, and even easier not to follow, so I don't fool with it.

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  Giving, Advice, Fool

  "Oh, The Places You’ll Go, Part 2" by Ian Crouch, www.newyorker.com. June 21, 2010.

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• The best way to teach somebody something is to have them think they're learning something else.

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  Teaching, Thinking, Way

  YouTube Channel "Carnegie Mellon University"/"Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams", www.youtube.com. December 20, 2007.

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• No matter how bad things are, you can always make things worse.

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  Good Morning, Good Day, Optimistic

  Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2008). “The Last Lecture”, p.143, Hachette UK

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• If you can find an opening, you can probably find a way to float through it.

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  Way, Opening, Floats

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• Never make a decision until you have to.

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  Decision

  Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2008). “The Last Lecture”, p.51, Hachette UK

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• There are more ways than one to measure profits and losses.

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  Loss, Way, Profit

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• Well, you can’t have just some of me, Jai,” I told her. “You appreciate the part of me that didn’t get angry because two ‘things’ we own got hurt. But the flip side of that is my belief that you don’t repair things if they still do what they’re supposed to do. The cars still work. Let’s just drive ’em.

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  Hurt, Two, Appreciate

  Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2008). “The Last Lecture”, p.141, Hachette UK

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• There's a limit to how many times you can read how great you are and what an inspiration you are, but I'm not there yet.

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  Witty, Powerful, Humorous

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• Remember brick walls let us show our dedication. They are there to separate us from the people who don't really want to achieve their childhood dreams.

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  Dream, Wall, Dedication

  YouTube Channel "Carnegie Mellon University"/"Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams", www.youtube.com. December 20, 2007.

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• He had high hopes for society, and though his hopes were too often dashed, he remained a raging optimist.

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  Rage, Optimist

  Randy Pausch (2008). “The Last Lecture”, p.27, Hachette UK

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• Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good talks. But being considered the best speaker in the computer science department is like being known as the tallest of the Seven Dwarfs.

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  Careers, Computer, Academic

  Randy Pausch (2008). “The Last Lecture”, p.11, Hachette UK

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• Most people who have told a lie think they got away with it … when in fact, they didn’t

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  Lying, Thinking, People

  Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2008). “The last lecture”, Hyperion Books

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