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JACOB RIIS

“When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.”

JACOB RIIS

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You are your habits, thoughts, and the average of the people you spend time with. The system is more important than goals.

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