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You have never tasted freedom friend, or you would know it is purchased not with gold, but steel.

— Steven Pressfield Gates of Fire (1998)

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The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.

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Why have I nominated you, lady, to bear up beneath this most terrible of trials, you and your sisters of the Three Hundred? Because you can.

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