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Use fear as an engine, not as a brake.

Paulo Coelho

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Paulo Coelho
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: August 24
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A great pleasure in life is to do what they say you can't.
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It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the master work. Now, I'm beginning what I could have started ten years ago. But I'm happy at least that I didn't wait twenty years.
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... I simply accept that technology is stronger and more powerful than me: it works when it wants to, and when it doesn't its best to go for a walk, and just wait until the cables and telephone links are in a better mood and the computer decides to work again. I am not, I have discovered, my computers master: it has a life of its own.
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Our task is not to leave a record of what happened on this date for those who will inherit the Earth history will take care of that.
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