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By and large, life will give you what you deserve and it doesn't give a damn what you like. So it is up to you to take full responsibility to connect what you want with what you need to do to get it, and then to do those things.

Ray Dalio

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Ray Dalio
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: August 8
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