"I think that the minute that you have a backup plan, you've admitted that you're not going to succeed."
"I would much rather live a life of purpose than one in which I might have other things but not that."
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Source: Blood, Simpler by Ken Auletta, www.newyorker.com. December 15, 2014.
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