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If we were born to overthrow the order of ignorance and injustice of the world, it’s our job to realize it and get down to business.

Steven Pressfield

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Steven Pressfield
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 1
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We will have to choose between the life we want for our future and the life we have left behind.
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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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Resistance is experienced as fear the degree of fear equates to the strength of Resistance.
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Resistance will tell you anything to keep you from doing your work.
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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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