"The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt."

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"The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt."

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"Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have."

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"You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing."

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