"If you want to know what you think of yourself, then ask yourself what you think of others and you will find the answer."
"If you'd rather be a chooser, enter a market or a transaction where you have something to trade, something of value, something to offer that's difficult to get everywhere else. If all you have is the desire to get picked, that's not sufficient."
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Source: Sergio Troncoso (2011). “From This Wicked Patch of Dust”, p.97, University of Arizona Press
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