I don’t want my thoughts to die with me, I want to have done something…

Temple Grandin
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I don’t want my thoughts to die with me, I want to have done something. I’m not interested in power, or piles of money. I want to leave something behind. I want to make a positive contribution - know that my life has meaning. ✨ An Anthropologist On Mars. The New Yorker, December 27, 1993.
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I don’t want my thoughts to die with me, I want to have done something. I’m not interested in power, or piles of money. I want to leave something behind. I want to make a positive contribution - know that my life has meaning. ✨ An Anthropologist On Mars. The New Yorker, December 27, 1993.

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