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I never seek to defeat the man I am fighting, he explained. I seek to defeat his confidence. A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. Two men are equals - true equals - only when they both have equal confidence.

Arthur Golden

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Arthur Golden
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: December 6
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Chattanooga
Tennessee
Arthur Sulzberger Golden
Fighting
Seek
True
Victory
Two
Confidence
Cannot
Equal
Geisha
Mind
Focus
Troubled
Never
Doubt
Equals
Men
Courses
Explained
Course
Defeat

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