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If you were meant to cure cancer or write a symphony or crack cold fusion and you don't do it, you not only hurt yourself, even destroy yourself. You hurt your children. You hurt me. You hurt the planet.

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Steven Pressfield
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 1
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