"Any man today who returns from work, sinks into a chair, and calls for his pipe is a man with an appetite for danger."
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"Every success story has a parent who says, 'over my dead body.' Every success story has an old person who walks up to you and says, when you're acting the fool, 'you know I worry about you sometimes.'“
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