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We come into this world with a specific, personal destiny. we have a job to do, a calling to enact, a self to become. we are who we are from the cradle, and we're stuck with it.
-Steven Pressfield
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We Come Into This World With A

Steven Pressfield
We come into this world with a specific, personal destiny. we have a job to do, a calling to enact, a self to become. we are who we are from the cradle, and we're stuck with it.
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