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When everyone thinks alike, no one is doing very much thinking.


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Take advantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think what else it might be.



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Winning often teaches you about losing and losing often teaches you about winning and a lot of things also happen by luck and you have to be at the right place at the right time.



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When you leave the familiar and enter the unknown, your fear becomes refined by experience and hammered into tools of survival on the anvil of anxiety.



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I also derive a great deal of pleasure from horses and dogs... the ocean... and love.




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