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MARK CUBAN

“Every no gets me closer to a yes.”

MARK CUBAN

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The more one seeks to rise into height and light, the more vigorously do ones roots struggle earthward, downward, into the dark, the deep — into evil.

Here, “I” refer to Mark Cuban

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