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Never permit circumstances to change your plans, but give so much character to your plans that they will change circumstances. Give so much character to the current of your work that all things will be drawn into that current, and that which at _st was but a tiny rivulet, will thus be swelled into a mighty, majestic stream.
Christian D. Larson
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Never permit circumstances to change your plans, but give so much character to your plans that they will change circumstances. Give so much character to the current of your work that all things will be drawn into that current, and that which at _st was but a tiny rivulet, will thus be swelled into a mighty, majestic stream.

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