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Our greatest battle is to become ourselves, in the face of adversity.
Steven Pressfield
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Steven Pressfield
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 1
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On the field of The Self stand a knight and a dragon. You are the knight. Resistance is the dragon.
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The amateur believes he must first overcome his fear then he can do his work. The professional knows that fear can never be overcome. He knows there is no such thing as a fearless warrior or a dread-free artist.
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The critic hates most that which he would have done himself if he had had the guts.
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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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I had always been an enthusiastic reader of stuff about ancient Greece. I would read Herodotus and Thucydides just for fun.
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