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Progress in Life

"You are not committed to something unless you are willing to sacrifice for it. Commitment and sacrifice are the same thing ... you have to sacrifice that which is most valuable to you currently that is stopping you. And God only knows what that is.  It's certainly the worst of you, certainly that. God only knows to what degree you are in love with the worst of you..."
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