Commit yourself to lifelong learning, the most valuable asset you'll ever have is your mind and what you put into it. Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
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People come and go, they’ll drift in and out of your life, almost like characters in your favorite book. When you finally close the cover, the characters have told their story and you start up again with another book, complete with new characters and adventures. Some people take more from us than they leave behind,
Some others leave more with us than they take. Then you find yourself focusing on the new ones, not the ones from the past...