Who are we, if not measured by our impact on others? That’s who we are…

Carl Sagan
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Who are we, if not measured by our impact on others? That’s who we are! We’re not who we say we are, we’re not who we want to be - we are the sum of the influence and impact that we have, in our lives, on others.
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