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“It’s a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don’t quit when you’re tired you quit when the gorilla is tired.”
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“If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be 'meetings.”
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“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.”
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I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.”
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“If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his knees buckling, his arms trembling but still trying to hold the world aloft with the last of his strength, and the greater his effort the heavier the world bore down upon his shoulders - What would you tell him?"
I…don't know. What…could he do? What would you tell him?"
To shrug.”
― Atlas Shrugged
I…don't know. What…could he do? What would you tell him?"
To shrug.”
― Atlas Shrugged
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