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No other seemingly benign exercise has such far-reaching consequences as drawing a line on a map. On the face of it, you merely put pencil to paper, but the line actually runs through towns, villages, valleys, farmlands, forests, rivers,
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“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
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“Consciousness of the bad is an essential prerequisite to the promotion of the good.”
― Train to Pakistan
― Train to Pakistan

“Zip2, PayPal, Tesla, SolarCity—they are all expressions of Musk. SpaceX is Musk.”
― Elon Musk: How the Billionaire CEO of SpaceX and Tesla is Shaping our Future
― Elon Musk: How the Billionaire CEO of SpaceX and Tesla is Shaping our Future

“What profit it a man if he gain the whole world but in this enterprise lose his soul?”
― The Man in the High Castle
― The Man in the High Castle

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