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“Every life is organized around a small number of events that either propel us or bring us to a grinding halt. We spend the years between these episodes benefiting or suffering from their consequences until the arrival of the next forceful moment.
A man’s worth is established by the number of these defining circumstances he is able to create for himself.
He need not always be successful, for there can be great honor in defeat. But he ought to be the main actor in the decisive scenes in his existence, whether they be epic or tragic.
Whatever the past may have handed on to us, it is up to each one of us to chisel our present out of the shapeless block of the future.“