Retirement – I thought it was a bad idea.
Change of mind
When was the last time you changed your mind about something?
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When I worked out I was gay and decided to leave the church at 29.
The US election showed me that I had trapped myself in wishful thinking.
Desmond Tutu
Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town; chair of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission; Nobel Peace Prize, 1984
I used to be “Mister Disinvestment.” Now I would like to be Mister Investment and say, “Come! Come and be part of an exciting, exhilarating process. Come in! Come in on the ground floor and see a people do something that’s probably never happened before, people seeking to become something radically different from what their antecedents would have made us believe they were likely to become.
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