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When we sit down day after day and keep grinding, something mysterious starts to happen... Unseen forces enlist in our cause serendipity reinforces our purpose.
Steven Pressfield
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Steven Pressfield
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 1
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You have never tasted freedom, friend, or you would know it is purchased not with gold, but steel.
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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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The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.
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The amateur tweets. The pro works.
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Persian envoy our arrows will black out the sun... Dienekes of the Spartans..Good, then we'll fight in the shade.
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