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I guess what I want to say to us artists and entrepreneurs is that conventional yardsticks of success don't apply to all enterprises. Labors of love count.
Steven Pressfield
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Steven Pressfield
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 1
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Socrates demonstrated long ago, that the truly free individual is free only to the extent of his own self-mastery.
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