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Shrug off setbacks and aim for the stars

People will tell you that you can have everything that you ever dreamed of. That you can have your best life. Be whoever and whatever. Believe and achieve. Confront and conquer. By fire and by faith, and so on. They’ll have you believing that all you have to do is close your eyes and imagine greatness for greatness to be thrust upon you. That just by the power of your will, and with all your purest intentions aligned, you can have it all. They are wrong.  

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