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“Strong, deeply rooted desire is the starting point of all achievement. Just as the electron is the last unit of matter discernible to the scientist. DESIRE is the seed of all achievement; the starting place, back of which there is nothing, or at least there is nothing of which we have any knowledge.
— Napoleon Hill
Author of Think and Grow Rich
The Law of Success (1928), p. 109
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