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It’s so important to be yourself and follow those ambitions. Regardless of what people say.

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We’re comfortable, we have fun and we’re successful.

People expect a lot of me, which is normal and I also want them to, but I am still one of the youngest here.

I feel that everyone has their own thing about them that makes them unique.

I’m focused on playing well rather than searching for fame or anything like that.

I don’t like to tell myself “you need to score ten times”.

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Men accept servility in order to acquire wealth; as if they could acquire anything of their own when they cannot even assert that they belong to themselves.

Étienne de La Boétie Discourse on Voluntary Servitude (1548)

To rank the effort above the prize may be called love.

Confucius

The poor, by thinking unceasingly of money, reach the point of losing the spiritual advantages of non-possession, thereby sinking as low as the rich.

Emil Cioran The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune, and favor cannot satisfy him.

Jean de La Bruyère Les Caractères (1688)

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