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You have never tasted freedom, friend, or you would know it is purchased not with gold, but steel.
Steven Pressfield
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Steven Pressfield
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 1
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The professional conducts his business in the real world. Adversity, injustice, bad hops and rotten calls, even good breaks and lucky bounces all comprise the ground over which the campaign must be waged. The field is level, the professional understands, only in heaven.
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Resistance is not a peripheral opponent. Resistance arises from within. It is self-generated and self-perpetuated. resistance is the enemy within.
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