"I come from a line of self-motivated, determined folk - not grand, not high society, but no-nonsense, family-minded go-getters.“


-Bear Grylls

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I come from a line of self-motivated, determined folk - not grand, not high society, but no-nonsense, family-minded go-getters.

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