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Almost everything worthwhile carries with it some sort of risk.
Chris Hadfield
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Chris Hadfield
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: August 29
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If you start thinking that only your biggest and shiniest moments count, you're setting yourself up to feel like a failure most of the time.
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Early success is a terrible teacher. You're essentially being rewarded for a lack of preparation, so when you find yourself in a situation where you must prepare, you can't do it. You don't know how.
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