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No industry is immune and no occupation is safe. All of us need to begin to think in terms of our own inner strengths, our resilience and resourcefulness, our capacity to adapt and to rely upon ourselves and our families.
Steven Pressfield
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Steven Pressfield
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 1
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